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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For many years Nonprofit Tech for Good used a budget website hosting company for $12 a month, but by 2020 our website downtime became significant and our email opt-in forms overrun with spam bot subscribers. 5) Update your software often and backup your data daily. and requires no maintenance.

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4 of the best robocall-blocking apps and tools for avoiding phone spam

Mashable Tech

A report conducted by the visual voicemail and robocall-blocking software company YouMail estimates that about 52.8 SEE ALSO: Why am I getting so many spam calls? billion robocalls were placed to U.S. consumers in 2024, which worked out to nearly 200 robocalls for every adult with a phone throughout the year. And how do I stop it?

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Cybercriminals are using Spotify to spread spam and pirated software

TechSpot

Malicious actors are exploiting Spotify's playlist and podcast description features to distribute spam, malware, pirated software, and video game cheat codes, according to cybersecurity experts. Read Entire Article

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For many years Nonprofit Tech for Good used a budget website hosting company for $12 a month, but by 2020 our website downtime became significant and our email opt-in forms so overrun with spam bot subscribers, that we had to make the shift to a premium website hosting company and upgraded to a $96 a month plan. and requires no maintenance.

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Lame spam of the day: Your Intuit.com invoice.

Robert Weiner

Here's another set of spams claiming to come from Inuit. Your Intuit.com software order. Your Quickbooks software order. The text varied slightly but was along the lines of this one: Dear Customer: Thank you for purchasing your software Intuit Market. An earlier batch asked me to provide my tax information. risk@bbb.org.

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Lame spam of the day: self-identified spam

Robert Weiner

This message didn't come from my anti-spam software and my ISP says it didn't come from theirs. Subject: **SPAM ** Re: µ¹.§A¤£°µ§@ª½±µ-»ù¨C¤ù¥u­n26¤¸. Text: Spam detection software, running on the system "nas", has. identified this incoming email as possible spam. To: ruhit_ray@hotmail.com.

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Lame spam of the day: FDIC Transactions stopped

Robert Weiner

I got a dozen spams today claiming to come from the FDIC. New security software is should be installed! New security software, should be updated! New security software, update required! Here are details on the exploit. The truly lame part is that the text is pale blue on white and is completely unreadable.

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