{"id":1122,"date":"2023-06-09T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2023-06-09T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:16:35","slug":"securing-your-financial-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/alerts\/1122","title":{"rendered":"Securing Your Financial Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sans.org\/newsletters\/ouch\/\">SANS OUCH! Newsletter<\/a> for June 2023 focuses on the topic of protecting your valuable accounts. For the full article, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sans.org\/newsletters\/ouch\/securing-financial-accounts\">https:\/\/www.sans.org\/newsletters\/ouch\/securing-financial-accounts<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Quick Dos and Don&#8217;ts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>DO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Use unique passphrases<\/li><li>Enable multi-factor authentication or two-step verification<\/li><li>Monitor transaction activity <\/li><li>Set up alerts to email or text you<\/li><li>Know how to contact your bank to report unauthorized transactions or suspicious activity<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>DON&#8217;T<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Transfer money to an unknown individual<\/li><li>Pay an unknown individual via Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, etc<\/li><li>Tell someone your password or other sensitive personal information<\/li><li>Tell someone your PIN number, credit card number, or account number<\/li><li>Fall for social engineering scams including phishing emails, text messages, or calls<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to full article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sans.org\/newsletters\/ouch\/securing-financial-accounts\">https:\/\/www.sans.org\/newsletters\/ouch\/securing-financial-accounts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SANS OUCH! Newsletter for June 2023 focuses on the topic of protecting your valuable accounts. For the full article, visit https:\/\/www.sans.org\/newsletters\/ouch\/securing-financial-accounts. Quick Dos and Don&#8217;ts! DO Use unique passphrases Enable multi-factor authentication or two-step verification Monitor transaction activity Set up alerts to email or text you Know how to contact your bank to report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}