How is your cybersecurity?

[August]

You all might want to take this article to heart before it happens to you.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/...n-hacking/all/

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Bad Apple and Amazon.

I'm alright, it'll never happen to me. . . buy my viagra, extend your

[Task Force]

Yay for never using Apple, having a Google account, or using social media for anything!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Task Force

Yay for never using Apple, having a Google account, or using social media for anything!

Sorry, that line is reserved for Skybird.

[STEED]

my entire digital life was destroyed

You sad twonk...go and get a real life.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by STEED

You sad twonk...go and get a real life.

Says the digital Citizen Smith

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by STEED

You sad twonk...go and get a real life.

Omnonomnom. Tasty internet irony.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Sorry, that line is reserved for Skybird.

Personally I swear by noscript, up until using noscript I'd get a virus nearly every other month and it was nearly always from a malicious script that was hidden in an advert. It would install itself as a 'virus checker' and generally break things, heck I even had a rootkit pop up at one point.
So I use noscript with a triumvirate of Malwarebytes and Avast, and it's worked so far. Of course, now I've said that I'm doomed to be hacked to oblivion...

I did have my twitter account hacked the other day, but I just had one message which was about upgrading my portfolio or some such rubbish, my other half notified me quite quickly about it and I was able to take action to put a stop to it.

[Garion]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Personally I swear by noscript, up until using noscript I'd get a virus nearly every other month and it was nearly always from a malicious script that was hidden in an advert. It would install itself as a 'virus checker' and generally break things, heck I even had a rootkit pop up at one point.
So I use noscript with a triumvirate of Malwarebytes and Avast, and it's worked so far. Of course, now I've said that I'm doomed to be hacked to oblivion...

I did have my twitter account hacked the other day, but I just had one message which was about upgrading my portfolio or some such rubbish, my other half notified me quite quickly about it and I was able to take action to put a stop to it.

Another vote for NOSCRIPT here, I have been using it for years and advise all my friends to use it to

Cheers

Gary

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Sorry, that line is reserved for Skybird.

Thank you.

Ehem, ohoho, uhum:

Yay for never using Apple, having a Google account, or using social media for anything!

Now, this way it sounds much more correct, doesn't it.

[Schroeder]

I have no idea why anyone would voluntarily use cloud computing? Why give away all your data to a third party who you can't check on what they are doing with it?

Yay for never using Apple, having a Google account, or using social media for anything!

^Amen to that brother.

[McBeck]

I put in the 2 level security about 6 months ago. I figured my der Google account was important