Digitally Secure Tips
Explore First Citizens’ guide to safeguarding your digital presence. In today’s interconnected world, ensuring your safety online is more important than ever. Whether you’re browsing, shopping, or communicating, discover essential strategies to shield your information from digital threats and maintain peace of mind on our website.
Online Banking Security
Online Banking is a digital banking service that allows First Citizens’ customers to access and manage their financial accounts through the internet or mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.
Card Security
Credit and debit card safety refers to the practices and precautions taken to protect the security of credit and debit card transactions and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive financial information associated with these cards.
Phishing & Social Engineering
Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone, or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking, and credit card details and passwords.
Identity Theft
Anyone can become a victim of identity theft, so it is important not to share personal information with unknown or unverified third parties
Malware
Malware, or malicious software, is any program or file harmful to a computer user. Types of malware can include computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware.
Passwords
Typing a password to access one of the tens or hundreds of services that we use has become such an everyday part of our lives that we rarely give it a second thought.
Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that accesses a victim’s files, locks and encrypts them, and then demands the victim to pay a ransom to get them back.
