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Hacker Smacker: An Easy to Read Guide to Personal Cyber Security
Learn how to protect yourself, and your family from cyber criminals. Discover the most common attacks that impact individuals, and how to protect yourself against them. Covering phishing, Identity Theft, Ransomware, Cyber bullying and Online Harassment, Unauthorized Access, Malware and Viruses, Smart Appliances and Public Wi-Fi networks.
Each chapter starts with a story about someone who is impacted by a particular attack, setting the scene for the detail in the rest of the chapter.
Each chapter starts with a story about someone who is impacted by a particular attack, setting the scene for the detail in the rest of the chapter.
67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 3, 2023
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November 16, 2023
"I liked reading "Hacker Smacker: An Easy to Read Guide to Personal Cyber Security" by Peter Jukel. In my opinion, this book is an excellent source of information that's useful and a good reference book most everyone can use.
As this highly intelligent author describes "In 2022, half of US Internet users had experienced a cybercrime. 85% of organizations responding to the 2023 Cyberthreat Defense Report suffered at least one successful cyberattack in the previous year. The three biggest data breaches involved the compromising of 3 billion accounts (Yahoo, Aug 2013), 500 million accounts (Marriot, 2014-2018) and 500 million accounts (Yahoo, 2014)."
I found it to be concise, well-organized, easy to read and understand, and focused. It gave me a clear understanding of the concepts involved. There is also a handy Glossary at the end of the book for those who might be unfamiliar with online terms. I also liked the "Basic Security Toolkit" the author gives in the book in Chapter 2 and I will keep this useful book as a handy reference.
Einstein once said, “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” In my view, the author has taken a lot of care to convey important security concepts in a clear and direct manner.
All in all, I found this book to be very well done and highly recommended."
As this highly intelligent author describes "In 2022, half of US Internet users had experienced a cybercrime. 85% of organizations responding to the 2023 Cyberthreat Defense Report suffered at least one successful cyberattack in the previous year. The three biggest data breaches involved the compromising of 3 billion accounts (Yahoo, Aug 2013), 500 million accounts (Marriot, 2014-2018) and 500 million accounts (Yahoo, 2014)."
I found it to be concise, well-organized, easy to read and understand, and focused. It gave me a clear understanding of the concepts involved. There is also a handy Glossary at the end of the book for those who might be unfamiliar with online terms. I also liked the "Basic Security Toolkit" the author gives in the book in Chapter 2 and I will keep this useful book as a handy reference.
Einstein once said, “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” In my view, the author has taken a lot of care to convey important security concepts in a clear and direct manner.
All in all, I found this book to be very well done and highly recommended."
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