Day 10 of 31: Voice clones and safe words. Five minutes at dinner this weekend: agree on a family safe word. It works no matter how good the fake voice gets.

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Day 9 of 31: MFA push bombing. MFA did its job here: it stopped a stolen password. Don't undo that with one sleepy tap.

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Help us secure our world this Cybersecurity Awareness Month

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 

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Day 8 of 31: Toll scam texts. Unpaid-toll and missed-package texts are the most common scam texts right now. The amount is small on purpose.

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Day 7 of 31: Lookalike domains. Attackers buy domains that look right at a glance. Reading from the right takes two seconds and beats every one of these.

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Day 6 of 31: Clicked a phishing link. Everyone clicks eventually. The people who report it in five minutes make the incident small.

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Day 5 of 31: Anatomy of a phish. Phishing emails are built from the same few parts. Learn the five and you'll spot most of them.

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Day 4 of 31: MFA strength. Turn on whatever MFA your account offers today. Move up the stairs to a passkey when the site supports it.

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Day 3 of 31: Password reuse. Weekend project: open your password manager's security report and change every password it flags as reused.

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Day 2 of 31: Passphrase strength.

Length beats complexity. Let a password manager or dice pick the words; words you choose yourself aren't random.

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