This assignment was to exsplore diffrent type of threats and how to prevent them.This assignment helped teach me about my own personal info and how to protect it and keep up with updating them to ensure security.
Cybersecurity in the News -Baltimore County man indicted for passport fraud
Lessons learned
I learned that I am pretty prone to these kinds of attacks since I always use simple passwords and since I don't update anything usally . This has especially taught me that there are way more theft crimes going on then I realized espically for peoples personal information
Type of attack
The type of attack was Identity theft
How to prevent this
To prevent identity theft you can use encyption. That is a way to pervent against theives. It also is another way to make sure you don't open any mail you werent exspecting especially if there are links.It's also wise to make sure you have a strong passcode for everythiing and to update them every so often.
Anne Arundel County Government Hit by Cyber Attack
How to prevent this
To prevent this it is best to regularly update your systems as well as use strong passcodes on everything you can.
Summary
So this was a randsomeware attack as stated above and this could effect anyone especcially people who aren't updating their systems regularly and using strong passwords.This specific attack tagergeted and effected people in Anne arundel county and also included physishing since they had sent out fake emails trying to lure people into them.
Type of attack
The type of threat was Randsomeware
Article info
Published by - Anne Arundel County
published in - MD
Published in - Febuary 2025
Intergity of article -Was posted by Anne Arundel Government and has no added people or ai .
Way it was written -It porvided a lot of info on how to inform youself more on how to pervent it by adding extra links as well as mentioning a similar attack that happened in 2019 and how sometimes they don't always get the best outcome.
This assignment taught me how to better protect my personal information , how to see false links , and so much more you should know to protect yourself and the info in your phone.
My certification
Part of this section was to complete this training and im super gratful I did becuase now I am more confident that my personal info and data will stay personal .The fact this assignment made me complete it to a 100 % makes me even more gratful I had included this in my assignment.