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Guest Speaker Highlight: Are You A Cyber Superhero?
Jerry Weygint, Director of Information Technology at La Posada, worked for 19 years as IT manager at
Tucson Medical Center, 5 years at Sunquest as Manager of Global Interoperability, and is currently
working on an MBA online. He warned us that our age group is especially vulnerable because we are
more trusting, have more resources, fewer computer skills, and are easily frightened. His 4 points were:
1) protect your privacy. He pointed out the Equifax breach affected over 146 million people but had no
adverse consequences for Equifax.
2) look out for villains on the World Wide Web. This includes googling safely (https:// means secure
connection) and using pop-up blockers, keeping the operating system up to date, and using anti-virus
software like Webroot,
3) beware of telephone scams. The IRS will not call you. Your grandkids are not penniless in a foreign
country.
4) don’t click on links in email you have the slightest doubt about, and when it comes to passwords,
length trumps complexity. Above all, use back-ups.
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