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Internet Security Practices

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The book I read to research this post was Internet Security Practices To Secure Yourself by Wycliffe Maina which is a very good book that I downloaded for free from kindle. This book is a bit of an eye opener about how others can gain access to your passwords and potentially your internet accounts. One thing you should do if others use the same machine have separate user accounts. One thing someone can do is go into the internet browser, right click and choose inspect elements. This then lists everything you have typed including log in names and passwords. If you have Windows 8 use the onscreen keyboard at least for confidential information like passwords as another thing someone can do is put a key logger on your computer which can be software or a device that records every key stroke on the keyboard. With any kind of computing device including smartphones and tablets you should regularly download updates and should have the latest version of the operating system. With Android that is version 5 with iOS it is version 8. In many of these operating systems there are errors not sorted out at they are released and things that can be exploited that hackers prey on. This book is only short around 15 pages. I enjoyed reading it and I would recommend perhaps as long as it is free though.

 



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