Home | Amazing | Today | Tags | Publishers | Years | Account | Search 
10 Don'ts on Your Digital Devices: The Non-Techie's Survival Guide to Cyber Security and Privacy

Buy

In nontechnical language and engaging style, 10 Don’ts on Your Digital Devices explains to non-techie users of PCs and handheld devices exactly what to do and what not to do to protect their digital data from security and privacy threats at home, at work, and on the road. These include chronic threats such as malware and phishing attacks and emerging threats that exploit cloud‐based storage and mobile apps.

It’s a wonderful thing to be able to use any of your cloud-synced assortment of desktop, portable, mobile, and wearable computing devices to work from home, shop at work, pay in a store, do your banking from a coffee shop, submit your tax returns from the airport, or post your selfies from the Oscars. But with this new world of connectivity and convenience comes a host of new perils for the lazy, the greedy, the unwary, and the ignorant. The 10 Don’ts can’t do much for the lazy and the greedy, but they can save the unwary and the ignorant a world of trouble.

10 Don’ts employs personal anecdotes and major news stories to illustrate what can—and all too often does—happen when users are careless with their devices and data. Each chapter describes a common type of blunder (one of the 10 Don’ts), reveals how it opens a particular port of entry to predatory incursions and privacy invasions, and details all the unpleasant consequences that may come from doing a Don’t. The chapter then shows you how to diagnose and fix the resulting problems, how to undo or mitigate their costs, and how to protect against repetitions with specific software defenses and behavioral changes.

Through ten vignettes told in accessible language and illustrated with helpful screenshots, 10 Don’ts teaches non-technical readers ten key lessons for protecting your digital security and privacy with the same care you reflexively give to your physical security and privacy, so that you don’t get phished, give up your password, get lost in the cloud, look for a free lunch, do secure things from insecure places, let the snoops in, be careless when going mobile, use dinosaurs, or forget the physical—in short, so that you don’t trust anyone over…anything.

Non-techie readers are not unsophisticated readers. They spend much of their waking lives on their devices and are bombarded with and alarmed by news stories of unimaginably huge data breaches, unimaginably sophisticated "advanced persistent threat" activities by criminal organizations and hostile nation-states, and unimaginably intrusive clandestine mass electronic surveillance and data mining sweeps by corporations, data brokers, and the various intelligence and law enforcement arms of our own governments. The authors lift the veil on these shadowy realms, show how the little guy is affected, and what individuals can do to shield themselves from big predators and snoops.

What you’ll learn

After reading 10 Don’ts, you will understand how to:

  • detect and report phishing scams
  • choose better passwords and how to manage and safeguard all of them
  • use cloud‐based storage services more safely
  • shield your data from the prying eyes of government agencies, data brokers, corporations, and criminals
  • steer through the risks of public wireless network, shared computers, and obsolete devices
  • select and configure apps for your mobile devices without unknowingly compromising your privacy and security
  • lock, safeguard, and erase your physical devices

Who this book is for

The primary target audience for 10 Don’ts is just about everybody—namely, non-techie individuals who routinely use computers, smartphones, and tablets in their daily lives but who are nagged by persistent worry that they are exposing themselves to personal insecurity, intrusive surveillance, and criminal violation. The secondary readerships for this book include employees of small businesses lacking dedicated IT specialists, whose owners want to give their workers a short and entertaining book to reduce the risk of business loss from unsafe practices; households with multigenerational users, ranging from incautious teenagers to gullible grandparents; and private and public professionals who curate third-party personal data and are liable to litigation or discipline if data is stolen or otherwise compromised.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Don’t Get Phished

Chapter 2. Don’t Give Up Your Password

Chapter 3. Don’t Get Lost in the Cloud

Chapter 4. Don’t Look for a Free Lunch

Chapter 5. Don’t Do Secure Things from Insecure Places

Chapter 6. Don’t Let the Snoops In

Chapter 7. Don’t Be Careless When Going Mobile

Chapter 8. Don’t Use Dinosaurs

Chapter 9. Don’t Trust Anyone Over…Anything

Chapter 10. Don’t Forget the Physical

 

(HTML tags aren't allowed.)

Living Green: The Missing Manual
Living Green: The Missing Manual

Taking care of the earth is more important than ever, but the problems we're facing can seem overwhelming. Living Green: The Missing Manual helps make earth-friendly decisions more manageable by narrowing them down to a few simple choices. This all-in-one resource is packed with practical advice on ways you can help the...

Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them
Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them
Almost overnight, blogging has become a social, political, and business force to be reckoned with. Your fellow students, workers, and competitors are joining the blogosphere--and making money, influencing elections, getting hired, growing market share, and having fun--to the tune of 8,000 new bloggers a day.

Clear Blogging sets out to...

The HCS12 / 9S12: An Introduction to Software and Hardware Interfacing
The HCS12 / 9S12: An Introduction to Software and Hardware Interfacing

The Freescale HCS12 (also known as 9S12) microcontroller family was initially designed for automotive applications. The design of the HCS12 combines most features common in major 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers.

1. Full-feature timer system. The HCS12 timer system provides input-capture, outputcompare, pulse-width...


Strategic Mobile Design: Creating Engaging Experiences (Voices That Matter)
Strategic Mobile Design: Creating Engaging Experiences (Voices That Matter)
The mobile landscape is an evolving ecosystem of constant exploration and progressive thinking. Mobile is more than just the device that we carry in our bag for phone calls and text messages with friends. It’s a device that connects users to a wealth of information and portable experiences throughout the globe—experiences such as those...
Wireless Communications Security (Artech House Universal Personal Communications)
Wireless Communications Security (Artech House Universal Personal Communications)
Addressing the fast-growing need to integrate effective security features into wireless communication systems, this cutting-edge book offers a broad overview of wireless security, so engineers can choose the methods and techniques that are most appropriate for their projects. Professionals gain a solid understanding of critical cryptography...
Fuzzy Quantifiers: A Computational Theory (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
Fuzzy Quantifiers: A Computational Theory (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
From a linguistic perspective, it is quantification which makes all the difference between “having no dollars” and “having a lot of dollars”. And it is the meaning of the quantifier “most” which eventually decides if “Most Americans voted Kerry” or “Most Americans voted Bush” (as it...
©2021 LearnIT (support@pdfchm.net) - Privacy Policy