This Week's Helpful Tips (11/1/2023)

In our modern lives, work and personal often crossover and bleed into on another. This makes it of utmost importance to protect all of our accounts in every location. Bad actors will use AI and social engineering to build profiles of individuals and target them for compromise across any platform that they can. Just keeping your work email off of your phone is not enough to prevent this. I spoke to a user on site at a client office yesterday who was actively dealing with the fallout of their social security number being compromised and used. Here is an article from Forbes about best practices for protecting yourself and your family across your entire life, all accounts and attack targets:

7 Simple Ways To Shield Yourself From Cybersecurity Threats

2 extremely useful features in Windows 10 and 11 are the Snipping tool (instead of old and clunky print screen keyboard button) and Clipboard history. I've shared these tools with quite a few of you, but these are shortcuts that can help everyone who ever needs to grab things that are on their screen, and/or if you've ever copied something then gone to paste it and realized that you've copied over it! One of the best use cases for these two tools together is if you're creating a set of instructions to walk through a process that includes a lot of screens, you can quickly walk through the process, grabbing screen snips and marking them up with the built in markup tools. All of the items will stay on your clipboard for you to access and paste into your instruction document all at once instead of having to do them one at a time. These tools will absolutely make your life easier:

Windows Snipping Tool and Clipboard History