AI Do's and Don'ts to Keep in Mind to Protect Yourself and Others
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Scammers are using legitimate hotel booking details to craft targeted phishing attacks and have targeted customers of at least 350 hotels and vacation rentals in 50 countries, WIRED magazine reports.
As we wrap up National Internet Safety Month, this week’s focus is on recognizing and reporting online scams. These threats continue to grow. The Federal Trade Commission’s 2025 report found that $15.9 billion was lost to online scams. With an increase in fake accounts and ads posing as major brands, scammers have more ways than ever to target personal information.
This week's focus for Internet Safety Month is strengthening privacy and security by reviewing device settings, limiting data sharing, enabling stronger security features, and keeping devices and apps updated.
Over the next year, North Carolina will host, support, or be connected to several major sporting, entertainment, civic, and international events. These events bring tremendous opportunity and visibility to our state, but they also increase cybersecurity risk because of the volume of people, transactions, vendors, digital systems, and public attention.
To stay safe online, you should enable multifactor authentication, create strong, unique passwords and use a password manager.
Join our Secure Your Square Challenge and take simple steps to strengthen your online safety all month long! Each week we'll be highlighting tips from the card on social media, and we invite you to play along with us.
Voice phishing – or vishing – overtook email-based phishing a top initial intrusion vector in 2025, according to a new report from cybersecurity consulting firm Mandiant.
Vishing is live and interactive, giving the attacker more control over the social engineering tactics.
“While email phishing often relies on volume and opportunistic delivery, interactive methods involve a live person steering the conversation in real-time,” Mandiant says.
State employees involved in business continuity are invited to join webinars during Business Continuity Resilience and Awareness Week, hosted online by the global Business Continuity Institute on May 18-22.
These webinars are designed for anyone with a role in ensuring their organization's ability to continue functioning in the face of potential disruptions, including: