Password management software is best defense against phishing attack: EFF technologist Jacob Hoffman
Latest News - We are living in an era of widespread hacking and public shaming. Don't like your political rivals? Beg Russia to hack them, and their emails mysteriously show up on Wikileaks. Don't like your ex-spouse? Post a revenge porn video. Don't like your video game opponents? Find their address online and send a SWAT team to their door.
And, of course, the US government has the capability to do even more. It can spy on much of the globe's Internet traffic and has in the past kept tabs on nearly every American's phone calls. Like it or not, we are all combatants in an information war, with our data under constant siege.
So how can ordinary people defend themselves? The truth is you can't defend everything. But you can mitigate threats by reducing how much data you leave exposed for an intruder to grab. Hackers call this minimising your "attack surface."
The good news is that there are some easy steps you can take to reduce the threat. Here is what I am doing this year:
- Updating Software
- Making Passwords Longer
- Securing Communications
- Protecting Mobile Web Browsing
- Dropping Dropbox
- Deleting Some Data
- Reconsidering Installing Cameras and Microphones at Home
- Opting Out of Data Brokers
And, of course, the US government has the capability to do even more. It can spy on much of the globe's Internet traffic and has in the past kept tabs on nearly every American's phone calls. Like it or not, we are all combatants in an information war, with our data under constant siege.
So how can ordinary people defend themselves? The truth is you can't defend everything. But you can mitigate threats by reducing how much data you leave exposed for an intruder to grab. Hackers call this minimising your "attack surface."
The good news is that there are some easy steps you can take to reduce the threat. Here is what I am doing this year:
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