Good Digital Hygiene A guide to staying secure in cyberspace
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740305777
Table of contents: title: Content; title: About the author; title: Introduction; title: Purpose of this book and summary of key points; title: 1. A scary story for grown ups; title: 2. The inhabitants of cyberspace’s hostile side; title: 3. Good digital hygiene: the essentials; title: 3.1. Malicious software; title: 3.2. Anti-virus and Firewalls; title: 3.3. Use a vault; title: 3.4. Bad ideas; title: 3.5. Disposing of your devices; title: 3.6. Backups; title: 3.7. Passwords; title: 3.8. Personal Identification Numbers (PIN); title: 3.9. Choosing software for your devices; title: 3.10. Downloads; title: 3.11. Sharing your devices; title: 3.12. Locking your devices when not in use; title: 3.13. Securing online transactions and “https”; title: 4. Your footprints in cyberspace; title: 4.1. Who is watching your online activities?; title: 4.2. Your browser disclosures; title: 4.3. Your cookies; title: 4.4. Your disclosures; title: 4.5. What others may be saying about you; title: 4.6. Your IDs and privacy in cyberspace; title: 4.7. Being selective about who is in your network; title: 4.8. Social media and Internet Memory; title: 5. Hygiene and the cyber-minefield; title: 5.1. Spam and scams; title: 5.2. Phishing and spear-phishing; title: 5.3. Attachments; title: 5.4. Click here to follow the link; title: 5.5. Unencrypted “free” WiFi (or WLAN); title: 5.6. Encrypting your domestic WiFi; title: 5.7. Bluetooth; title: 5.8. Log out of everything you do online; title: 6. Beyond the essentials; title: 6.1. Inventory of your devices; title: 6.2. Crapware, craplets and Scareware; title: 6.3. Inventory of all your accounts; title: 6.4. Lost your smartphone or your computer?; title: 6.5. Tracking software for electronic devices; title: 6.6. Remotely wipe the contents of your lost device; title: 6.7. Encryption and digital signatures; title: 6.8. Geo-tagging; title: 6.9. Legislation you should know about; title: 6.10. Jailbreaking or rooting your devices; title: 7. Good hygiene in the future; title: 7.1. Coming your way: the Internet Of Things; title: 7.2. Digital hygiene in; title: 8. In conclusion…; title: 9. Other publications and websites; title: 10. Acknowledgments