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Cyber Byte – Can your recycled devices expose your personal data?

Cyber Byte – Can your recycled devices expose your personal data?

The attached information is being circulated on behalf of Police Scotland, Cybercrime Harm Prevention Unit

 

Please find attached the latest Cyber byte titled – Can your recycled devices expose your personal data?.

 

This is a short read and certainly worth considering when you dispose of old devices and for consideration either as an individual or as a larger organisation.

 

📧 Received an email which you’re not quite sure about? – forward it to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) at report@phishing.gov.uk

📱 Received a suspicious text message? – forward it to 7726. It won’t cost you anything, and allows your provider to investigate the text and take action (if found to be a scam).

🌐 Visited a website you think is trying to scam you? – report it to the NCSC Report a suspicious website – NCSC.GOV.UK