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Sawbridgeworth

Cyber crime

Event type: Meeting
Date: 11th July 2025
Time: 3:00 pm
Venue: Memorial Hall

Our Guest speaker is Alan Mordey from Hertfordshire Constabulary Cyber Crime unit who will give us a structured talk focusing on the following points:
- How criminals use social engineering to target you
- Examples of fraudulent activity (phone, text, email, online)
- Reducing digital footprint
- Importance of good passwords and 2 Factor Authentication/2 Step Verification to secure online accounts
- Backups, anti-virus, software updates
- How to report and the importance of reporting.

This topic is changing continuously and it will be important that we all get the latest updates to help us negotiate the digital world.