Hackers need personal data to exploit for identify theft and other fraud, but sometimes a simple typing mistake can expose your private information to someone who has no reason to see it. If that happens you have to hope that the person getting access to your accounts lacks criminal tendencies. I wanted to change the … Continue reading How a typo can expose your private data
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Item 20 on my list of information security tips is "Keep some paper records." Still, I was shocked when I saw the picture in this tweet: Does printing every email and organizing them by relationship seem extreme to you? Do you think this picture would make a great application to be on the show Hoarders? Is … Continue reading A Suitcase Full of Email
If you haven't heard about how Mat Honan's digital life was erased by hackers in less than an hour, you should read his story here. It's chilling. He lost data saved on the Internet (that venerable cloud) and on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook, including irreplaceable pictures of the first year of his daughter's life. He … Continue reading List 5: Information Security Basics
Kim Z. Dale 