About the Book
Learn how to protect your passwords, credit card
numbers, and bank accounts in easy-to-follow steps!
These days, learning how to defend your personal information is not
an option. If you want to make it safely through a digitally connected
world, you will need to understand not only how to protect yourself,
but also why you’re in danger from hackers and identity thieves.
Securing Your Information in an Insecure World will teach you the simple
tools and techniques needed to put you at ease while shopping online,
surfing the Internet or just chatting with your friends.
Here are some of the insights that the book will
teach you:
• How viruses, worms and other malicious software end up on your
system, and what simple steps you need to implement to avoid them.
• An explanation of how hackers use simple phone conversations
to get to your personal information.
• Why spam can be very harmful - and techniques on how to get
rid of those dozen junk mail messages every day.
• What pop-ups can really do to your computer and how to eliminate
them.
• The easy steps to protect yourself if you are connected through
a wireless network.
• The truth about how Phising attacks are performed and the things
you should look for in an email message to spot them.
• Why just installing Anti-virus and Anti-spyware applications
isn’t enough to protect your information and what you must regularly
do.
• The one simple thing you should always do before you leave
the house or office to decrease the risk of your information from being
hacked.
• How to be secure if you connect to the Internet through a Wireless
Network - whether you're at a café or at home
• Why you should ask for a call-back number when your bank calls
you to verify information.
You’ll also learn why offline security is
as important as online security, and tips to avoid being tricked by
simple scams:
• The first thing you should look for before you sit down to
log on to the web in a public place.
• A simple technique you could use while you enter your personal
information in public so that a hacker cannot ‘shoulder surf’
your secrets.
• What you need to do to cover up your activity while you’re
using your laptop on a plane or don’t want anyone to look at your
screen.
• The first things hackers look for on your desk (and the dumbest
thing people still do) to get to your information – and what you
should never ever do.
You’ll understand how your email messages can be used
against you to get your information:
• What “opt-ins” are and how they can be used to
trick you into giving out your personal information
• Why sometimes ‘unsubscribing’ to a newsletter could
actually harm rather than help you.
• The two things you could do to easily and instantly avoid a
Phishing attack.
• What you should do so that your friends don’t mistake
your emails for spam.
You’ll learn all the tips & tricks about Viruses, Worms and
Computer Intrusions
• Why you need to watch out for file extensions (like .jpg and
.doc), and how hackers came up with ingenious ways to trick you into
downloading harmful files.
• The first thing you should immediately change when you buy
a new computer, cable modem or wireless router.
• What those “spy-ware is found on your system” pop-ups
really do to your system and why you should never click on any of them.
Also gain the insights about passwords and everything around them:
• What 20 percent of computer users still do to make it super
easy for hackers to get to your files and emails.
• The insider secrets to how a ‘brute force’ and
a ‘dictionary’ attack can crack your passwords in a few
minutes.
• Techniques on how to choose “passwords on steroids”
that are hard to break and simple ways to memorize them so that you
don’t forget them easily.
• The three things you have to always do to your passwords on
all your email and bank accounts.
You’ll also learn…
• The two things you should look for in your browser before you
even hit that purchase button when shopping online.
• Why you’re in danger of the innocent “Autorun”
feature of your CD-ROM and what you need to do to disable it to avoid
having a Virus or Trojan horse from being injected on your hard drive.
• What website you must visit regularly so that your computer
is not vulnerable to network intrusion attacks.
• And much much more…
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