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So recheck all your backup/alternative email addresses associated with all your accounts as well.įinally, while these aren’t per se computer related, I recommend you contact your cellular provider and your local home phone carrier (if you have one).

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To break into the more-important service, a cracker will poke at these weak links, break into an email address, then use a password reset or another option that allows them to use the email access as a knife to crack open the oyster of the service. That’s often a disused email address that you set or still use as a backup address at another service. (1Password’s creators, AgileBits, have both family and business sharing options that can help you distribute passwords multiple people need it’s great in families where spouses or parents/kids need to have access to the same password, too.) I recommend a password management and sync system (I use 1Password) both to create strong, unique passwords and to let you access to them whenever you need them on whatever platform you’re using.

While it’s a pain, if you either can’t recall the last time you swapped a password, or you use the same password at multiple sites, the time is ripe. I also recommend changing your passwords comprehensively across all services you use.

Most social networks now support two-factor authentication, including Facebook. I’ve tested and can recommend both Cloak and TunnelBear, which offer varying packages and combos for limited or unlimited data and multi-platform support with a single account. This is also useful when you’re on networks you don’t know and trust, so you can see the kinds of behavior originating from the network around you-and potentially alert a café owner or a store manager if you see someone engaged in malicious activity.įurther to this point, using a virtual private network (VPN) whenever you’re outside your comfort zone-which can include some kinds of activities on your home network-effectively locks down your Internet traffic to anyone who can intercept data over a local Wi-Fi or ethernet network and at points between that and the other end of the VPN connection in a data center somewhere. Little Snitch can let you know which apps are trying to access the Internet and why.

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While I don’t find any real value in anti-malware software, seeing what your system and software are up to can be reassuring. I’ve used an older version of what’s now NetBarrier X8 in the Internet Security X8 package from Intego, and Objective Development’s Little Snitch.

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What you can do in OS X, however, is install software that monitors what is talking to your computer and what service your computer is accessing. That sounds depressing, except that most of them also had obscure vectors, making them hard to implement in practice-and none were discovered “in the wild” or in forms that could spread rapidly. The exploits that have affected Apple’s operating system in the last year were such that generally there was nothing you could do to avoid being taken advantage of. Being less credulous may waste some of your time, but avoid obvious problems. Don’t accept messages in iOS or OS X to install custom profiles when you haven’t sought them out. Don’t click links on dubious-looking websites. Primarily, these good habits will serve you well: Don’t open email you don’t recognize, and if you do, certainly don’t click any links or open any attachments.

(I know I can be.) But because of Apple’s architecture, there’s little to nothing you can do in iOS, and little to nothing that’s useful in OS X.

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Mac and iOS users are often a bit smug about the security of their devices. It’s great she was thinking about this ahead of time, and the advice I offered her is useful to everyone who finds themselves in that position, or just wants a security tune-up. Most people are reactive, waiting until a bad event to take action-whether total loss of data in a hard drive crash, or an account being hijacked. She wondered how she could best secure everything to do with her online identity before someone manages to wriggle inside her defenses. A friend wrote for advice, as she has believes she might face unwarranted harassment for some work of hers that’s going to be released.

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