You have an email account, a Facebook account, a LinkedIn or XING account. And you have passwords for them. You think you’re secure. But you are not. These days, cybercriminals aren’t only after our computers’ resources. They are interested in our identity, financial information and in our social media accounts. That’s why it’s important to […]
There has been a lot written about whether or not it is ok for parents to control what their children are doing on the Internet. This starts with supervising which websites they are visiting and spending time on. Parental control applied to browsing means several things: Filter the websites which they are allowed to visit […]
Social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and alike are so heavily used because they make it easy for people to share information with others. Many don’t know that sometimes, what they share is shared with the entire user base of the social network, not only with their friends. Even if now the default settings have […]
Hello dear reader, I finally manage to find some time to write the introduction chapter called “Who should read this book”. I also added a new chapter in the “Device Security”, related to Microsoft’s announcement for the end of support of Windows XP. Please help me to spread the word about the book by liking […]
Well, at the first glance, this Myth might actually be true… But… It is never so simple to speak only about cost and effort. Let’s take software development as main example (I am good at that). If you are a company that does something unrelated to software development, such an approach might make more sense. […]
I started some time ago to write the chapter 7, Online safety for parents. There is so much to write about, that I don’t know where to start. Does anyone have some ideas or thoughts how should I start? Or, what do you expect to find in this chapter? I need some kind of prioritization […]
Security and Privacy I wrote here about the SSL bug and what it could do for your security and privacy… There is a website which helps users checking if they are affected by this bug: gotofail.com. Here are more details about the gotofail bug. Here is a pretty good explanation about how this bug “works” (courtesy […]
You surely know of my free eBook “Improve Your Security” available here. I started to publish there a series of IT Security myths which will make you say “Oh, SHIT!!!” Here they are: http://improve-your-security.org/category/myths/ These are the first three: Most victims of malware often think, “This can never happen to me. Our network is secure, […]
This is the second post on how to protect yourself, following the one about how to “Protect yourself and all your devices against ads for FREE“. Tracking via cookies The idea behind tracking is actually a good one. Imagine that you search on Amazon for “hard drive 500 gb”. This website drops a cookie in […]
There is a lot of money being spent in the IT industry on analytics and on detailed information on users and their behavior online. There is nothing wrong in wanting to know who your users are and what they want in order to serve them better and with less hassle for them. But, the border […]
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