Harden your Facebook account
Nowadays the social media life is a significant part of our every day lives. We must make sure that we keep this part of our lives under control. Failing to do so may have significant…
Protect yourself and all your devices against tracking for FREE
A new article to be added in Chapter 5:Protect yourself and all your devices against tracking for FREE The idea behind tracking is actually a good one. Imagine that you search on Amazon for “hard…
Protect yourself and all your devices against aggressive advertisements for FREE
A new article to be added in Chapter 5:Protect yourself and all your devices against aggressive advertisements for FREE There is a lot of money being spent in the IT industry on analytics and on…
Online Protection
It is usually said that those who are behind a hardware router are protected from any danger. This is true in regard to the connections that come from outside but it is not true for…
Securing your notebook
Quite a lot of people take now their netbook or smartphone with them when travelling. Because of this, almost every quarter of the year we read stories about sensitive personal data was lost because some…
We have a Facebook Page
Finally, I managed to create a Facebook page for the book: www.facebook.com/ImproveYourSec Why “Sec” and not “Security” ? Well, I don’t know… Facebook appears to block anything which contains the word “security” in it. Hey, Facebook,…
Update your software often
Every week or even day we see new vulnerabilities popping up in all software packages which we use daily: In the operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux), PDF Readers, Web browsers, Mail clients, Office suites, and…
Password protect your smartphone
A recent study published in various online magazines showed that more and more people tend to replace their traditional mobile phones with smartphones. This trend applies not only to young people who are usually more…
Change the default passwords
Very often people buy new gadgets or devices which because they are “secured” out of the box. Or, better said, this is what the producers write on their boxes, because the reality is quite different. These…
Create good passwords
I never thought that I am going to write this post after publishing the two other Improve your security articles about passwords: #8: change the default passwords and #1: complex passwords aren’t always better But, here we are, after seeing…