World Elder Abuse Awareness Day – Building Strong Support for Elders In recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15, CNB and Senior Housing Crime Prevention (SHCPF) offer tips to help prevent elder financial abuse. Seniors lose roughly $3 billion to a growing number of scams each year, according to the United States […]
Read MoreCNB and ICBA Offer Advice for Graduates Entering the Workforce May 2021 – As college graduates finish their studies in preparation to enter the workforce, Citizens National Bank (CNB) and the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) want to remind them of the importance of planning for their financial future. “For soon-to-be graduates, transitioning from […]
Read MoreScam of the Week: Tricky PDF Files Cybercriminals have a new favorite phishing lure: PDF files. A PDF is a standard file type that presents text and images in their original format regardless of which program you use to open the file. Unfortunately, this makes the use of PDFs a great way for cybercriminals to […]
Read MoreScam of the Week: Advanced Phishing Hidden in Plain Text Cybercriminals are using advanced tactics to disguise dangerous malware as harmless text files. Using a phishing email, the bad guys try to trick you into downloading a file attachment named “ReadMe_knl.txt”. Typically, files ending in .txt are plain text documents that can be opened in […]
Read MoreScam of the Week: Classic Facebook Phishing While cyber threats continue to advance in new and intimidating ways, classic phishing methods are still a favorite among bad guys. Let’s take a look at a recent Facebook-themed phishing attack and see if you can spot the red flags: The email appears to come from Facebook and […]
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