{"id":10168,"date":"2011-09-29T18:20:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2022-08-19T20:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T00:40:58","slug":"detroit-netizens-vulnerable-to-online-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/detroit-netizens-vulnerable-to-online-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Netizens Vulnerable to Online Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10287\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"Detroit Netizens Vulnerable to Online Threats\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/detroit.jpg?resize=120%2C66\" alt=\"Detroit Netizens Vulnerable to Online Threats\" width=\"120\" height=\"66\" \/><a title=\"Detroit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitmi.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Detroit<\/strong><\/a><strong> Internet users<\/strong> rank seventh among 35 U.S. cities for being <strong>most at risk for online threats<\/strong> and being \u201c<strong>digitally duped<\/strong>,\u201d according to an <a title=\"AVG Technologies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AVG Technologies<\/strong><\/a> survey of online behavior.\u00a0Of the more than 8,000 Americans with home Internet surveyed, AVG says many consumers are unknowingly putting themselves at risk of falling victim to i<strong>dentity thieves<\/strong><strong>, viruses and malware<\/strong> with bad PC habits and a lack of comprehensive protection:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10178 \" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"malware\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/malware-e1565389499933.jpg?resize=100%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Malware\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75% don\u2019t back up their phone\u2019s data \u2013 many rely on their provider to restore their contacts should an accident occur.<\/li>\n<li>67% don\u2019t use an identity monitoring service.<\/li>\n<li>41% never run a manual antivirus scan to make sure the computer is virus-free<\/li>\n<li>40% don\u2019t use a password on their mobile device and of those that do, another 34% have not changed the password in the past year.<\/li>\n<li>38% admit to sharing online passwords with at least one other person<\/li>\n<li>23% don\u2019t back up the data on their PC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>U.S. cities at highest risk<\/h3>\n<p>AVG says that the top 10 U.S. cities at highest risk are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. <a title=\"San Antonio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sanantonio.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Antonio<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a title=\"Tampa, Florida\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tampagov.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Tampa<\/a>, Fla.<br \/>\n3. <a title=\"Atlanta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantaga.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlanta<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a title=\"Dallas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallascityhall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a title=\"Oklahoma City\" href=\"https:\/\/www.okc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Oklahoma City<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a title=\"Charlotte, N.C.\" href=\"http:\/\/charmeck.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlotte, N.C.<\/a><br \/>\n7. <a title=\"Detroit \" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121016042216\/http:\/\/detroit.tigers.mlb.com\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit<\/a><br \/>\n8. <a title=\"Denver\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denvergov.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver<\/a><br \/>\n9. <a title=\"Washington D.C.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110801162745\/http:\/\/dc.gov\/DC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington D.C.<\/a><br \/>\n10. <a title=\"Sacramento, CA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofsacramento.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sacramento, CA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The rules of the road still apply to online activities:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Patch your system<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Use current anti-malware software<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Change passwords regularly, use variations for each online account, and never, ever share them with others<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Use one credit card with a low spending limit for all online purchases. Monitor this account regularly, and flag any inappropriate activity to the bank.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Back up your data <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Don&#8217;t share your personal data on Facebook<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Be wary of phishing scams. Never click on links in emails <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>5 Essential Mobile Security Tips (informationweek.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2wgaW-3H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Internet users rank seventh among US cities for being most at risk for digitally duped according to an AVG Technologies survey of online behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[565,769,166,104,1096,608,19,4],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-anti-virus","tag-avg-technologies","tag-detroit","tag-facebook","tag-fb","tag-identity-theft","tag-michigan","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130832,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions\/130832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}