family cybersecurity
Resetting Your Child’s School Portal and App Passwords for the New Year
Somewhere between buying new sneakers and labeling lunchboxes, there’s a task that rarely makes the back-to-school list: the login your kid has been using for the school portal, the reading app, and the class messaging tool since sometime around last winter. It’s probably still their pet’s name plus “123.” It might also be saved on […]
Back-to-School Phishing Emails: Fake Tuition, Supply Lists, and School Portal Scams
Your inbox in August looks different than it does the rest of the year. Class assignments, supply lists, sports fees, lunch account reminders, portal login prompts. It’s a lot of legitimate email arriving in a short window, and that’s exactly the cover scammers wait for. Fraud that hides inside routine paperwork works because the routine […]
Back-to-School Device Checklist: Setting Up Phones and Laptops Before the First Bell
The backpack is packed, the shoes fit, and somewhere in a drawer is a laptop that hasn’t been touched since June. Before it comes back out for homework and group projects, it’s worth an hour of setup now instead of a scramble later when a password’s forgotten or an app update breaks mid-assignment. None of […]