6. Friends report that your emails are marked as spam or that they receive unsolicited emails from you or that your emails never reach them Antispam services use the reputation of a domain and email address to detect if it… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1z2AxpV via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
5. Your social media profile has posts you never authorized or wrote If you see in your Facebook or Twitter account posts that you didn’t write, then most probably someone or something got access to your account. In this context it… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1x2UhvQ via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
4. You get warnings from online services that you logged on from various locations When you visit certain websites (e.g. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn) you get a warning if you are logged in on different devices on different geographical locations. If… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1ugU32U via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
3. Your computer and/or your browsing is slower than before Even if this is not necessarily a certain sign of a malware infection, it is often the case. If your browsing is also slower,… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1rMttrD via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
2. You have one single password for all or most your online accounts In the last months many services were hacked and email addresses and password hashes (sometimes passwords in plain text) were stolen. This allows hackers to reverse engineer… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1G5jrfZ via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
You see in your account (debit or credit) an amount of money spent that you can’t explain If you see an in your bank account listing an amount which you know you didn’t spend nor authorized, no matter how small… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1toAN0s via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
Today is the October 31st and it is Halloween in the USA and some European countries. What is special for this holiday is that people try to scare other people with horror costumes. Well, I don’t have costumes, but… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1wjEln3 via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
You probably have heard by now that about 100 VIP iCloud accounts were hacked and photos with these persons naked were disclosed in various forums. I guess that by now it is quite needless to say that the best way… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1AWOmFO via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
Hello dear readers, I finally found the time to optimize a bit the reading experience of the book. In order to allow everyone to quickly find what they are interested in, I split the book in topics and create individual… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1kD4gTD via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
I've been asked a lot of times, especially when I was working for an antivirus producer, why can't we simply write a software that always protects the users. Well, there is a short answer and a long answer. Short answer: Because 100% security does not exist and because most people are hackable due to being ignorant […]