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Horsesmouth LLC Hack-Proof Your Life Now! by Sean M Bailey Kropp Devin
Everyone is besieged by a nonstop cybercrime wave that victimizes millions of people and businesses each year. And trouble usually starts with a click.In just the next 24 hours: Scammers will target the public with 94 billion emails Hackers will seize and hold 88000 computers for ransom Identity thieves will impersonate 35000 people How we handle our online security is critical to protecting our personal and professional lives. But guidance for staying safe has been fragmented and confusinguntil now.HackProof Your Life Now! demystifies the topic and introduces you to the New Cybersecurity Rulesclear sensible and doable actions that will quickly improve your security.Can anyone really be safe and secure online? Yes there is a way to quickly shut down hackers thieves and identity scammers and enjoy good online security say authors Sean M. Bailey and Devin Kropp. They contend that anyone can dramatically boost their online security by taking a handful of inexpensive and easytoaccomplish actions.Their book begins by asking the reader to measure his or her online security with a 10question cybersecurity quiz. Nearly everyone scores poorly. But that changes quickly as the authors introduce the New Cybersecurity Rules a set of 15 principles organized around three mindsets that must be cultivated in order to achieve higher security: Secrecy. Email addresses passwords credit files Social Security numbers and other personal information need greater levels of protection. Governments and private companies have done a miserable job guarding personal data. Only individual actions can limit exposure to hackers data breaches. The authors offer eight secrecyboosting rules including this one: Stop using a personal email address for online banking and credit accounts. Its too easily stolen. Instead create a financialonly email account to use exclusively for finances. That limits exposure to just a few secure places on the Internet where the financialonly email resides making it harder for hackers to scoop up and exploit.Omniscience. Just like the financial services industry consumers must use technology to become financially allknowing and monitorin real time personal banking and credit matters. By placing ones self at the center of online security (a key theme of the book) everyone can rest assured that identity thieves arent quietly stealing their money or ruining their credit. One recommended omniscience rule: Set up notifications on banking and credit cards to instantly become aware whenever cash leaves any accounts or when credit is charged. Its a way to instantly spot fraud or identity theft a solid protection to have at no extra cost.Mindfulness. Enacting the New Cybersecurity Rules instills a stronger security mindset the authors tell us. But how can it be maintained? Safety degrades without permanent changes to computer behaviors and security awareness. But the hackers never sleep. Even the best protected inbox will still receive a few dangerous emails. What to do? The authors suggest their 10Second EMAIL Rule an easy to remember mnemonic for staying mindful of avoiding malicious links. EMAIL stands for Examine Message and Inspect Links and shows how to spot and unmask dangerous blackmail spam and identity theft malware. Its a Zenlike practice that can benefit everyone every time they check their email.show more