A strong password is an excellent first step in keeping your personal information, email, and financial accounts safe.

October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a good time to review your computer habits to protect yourself from cybercrime. The FBI offers 5 ways to make your computer a tough target. Keep your firewall turned on. A firewall protects against hackers who could crash your computer, delete information, or steal passwords and other private information. Install or update your antivirus software. The software detects and protects you against malicious code like viruses and worms. Install or update your antispyware technology. Spyware is software secretly installed on your computer that lets

For scam artists, separating victims from their money is a full-time job. Unfortunately, they're very committed to and good at it. People reported losing $1.48 billion to fraud in 2018 – a 38% rise over 2017 – says Protecting Older Consumers 2017-2018: A Report of the Federal Trade Commission. No demographic group is immune, and scammers target everyone, from 20-somethings to seniors. But people aged 50-plus, particularly seniors, are uniquely appealing targets. Why? Seniors have nest eggs, own their homes, and have good credit, according to the FBI. It's also a group that tends to be more