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"Being safe online" resources: October 2016 is cyber security awareness month!
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Graeme Rodaughan wrote: "Thanks Alex,A good and timely thread."
Why timely? What are you afraid of?
Recent events with Segilola highlights the value of effective management of risk.
Thanks Alex, this is a topic that I've been researching recently. It's astounding how innovative and creative the crooks are these days. I didn't know about the password safe, so thanks for that.
If anyone is interested, FutureLearn are doing a free online course on cyber security, it's started but you can still join and work at your own pace:https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/i...
I've done a few of their courses and they're excellent. You don't have to be UK resident either.
Graeme Rodaughan wrote: "Recent events with Segilola highlights the value of effective management of risk."ahhahaahahhahaah
Jen Pattison wrote: "If anyone is interested, FutureLearn are doing a free online course on cyber security, it's started but you can still join and work at your own pace:https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/i......"
oh wow! this is great! The "guide" for this course is none other than the Cory Doctorow!
i'm going to check it out.
Protecting yourself on social media (like Goodreads)
https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/cnt/rs...
The Canadian government has some great cyber resources--gotta keep the Internet safe for all of their bears and mountain men/women ;)
Passwords
Don't use a password, but instead use a longer passphrase.
Also, use a "password safe — a program that runs locally on your computer and stores passwords securely. These exist as standalone applications such as KeePass (which is available in different flavors for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android and iOS), or OS X's Keychain, and there are also password safes in many browsers."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06...
http://xkcd.com/936/
And a lot more info
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/...