by Lynette Owens | Jun 23, 2025 | For Older Adults, For Parents, For Teachers
On June 18, 2025, researchers revealed that over 16 billion usernames and passwords from major services—like Apple, Google, Facebook, GitHub, Telegram, and government platforms—were exposed in a massive online data leak. This is one of the largest credential leaks...
by Avril Ronan | Sep 30, 2024 | For Older Adults, For Parents, For Teachers
Phishing is a type of cybercrime where scammers trick people into giving away sensitive data such as passwords or credit card details, clicking on malicious links, or downloading dangerous files. By pretending to be from trustworthy sources like banks, government...
by Avril Ronan | Sep 30, 2024 | For Older Adults, For Parents, For Teachers
Smishing combines “SMS” and “phishing” to describe a type of phishing scam conducted through SMS (Short Message Service) texts. Scammers send texts that appear to be from legitimate sources, such as financial institutions or government bodies,...
by Mitchel Chang | Apr 29, 2021 | For Business
By Zarmeena Waseem, National Cyber Security Alliances and Mitchel Chang, Trend Micro Initiative for Education It has been over a year since the pandemic began and cyber threats have thrived during this period. In April 2020, we witnessed a huge spike of phishing...
by Lynette Owens | May 26, 2020 | For Parents, For Teachers, Webinars
by Lynette Owens As the world moved indoors due to COVID-19, the time we spent online rose dramatically. We filled up our days with video chatting, movie streaming, remote working, and distance learning. Many of us also turned to gaming applications as a form of...
