Computer Security Tips and Best Practices
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Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses, and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.
They can even use your computer to store data like stolen credit-card numbers or child pornography, or to attack another innocent home user or business from your system.
Here’s Kevin Mitnick’s Top 10 list of steps you should take to protect your information and your computing resources from the bad boys and girls of cyberspace.
#1. Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you — one worm or Trojan is all it takes.
#2. Choose passwords that are reasonably hard to guess — don’t just append a few numbers to a no-brainer. Always change default passwords.
#3. Use an antivirus product like AVG or Norton, and set it to update daily.
#4. Update your OS religiously and be vigilant in applying all security patches released by the software manufacturer.
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