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It’s impossible to be 100% secure online, but as
Colin Barras explains, there are a few non-
obvious tricks that anyone can use to be safer.
Why should I care about online security?
It’s tempting to assume that only big businesses
or big celebrities have to worry about their online
security. After all, personal information like our
photographs aren’t as interesting to anonymous
hackers as compromising pictures of Jennifer
Lawrence and other Hollywood A-listers , are
they?
But the truth is we all have photos and messages
we would prefer to keep private, and information
like credit card details we would like to keep safe.
According to a report by security software-maker
McAfee and the Washington think tank Center for
Strategic and International Studies, more than 40
million people in the US had their personal
information stolen last year, as well as 54 million
in Turkey, 20 million in Korea, 16 million in
Germany and more than 20 million in China.
While it would be a mistake to think that the data
we store online can ever be 100% safe, it would
also be an error to assume that we can’t make
our email accounts and the data – including
photographs – that we store in the cloud a little
bit more secure with very little inconvenience.
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I’m pretty sure I don’t store anything in the
cloud, thanks…
Many of the celebrities at the heart of the recent
leaks may have thought the same. But as cloud
services grow it’s becoming common for devices
like smartphones to upload user data to remote
servers by default. If you’re at all worried about
some of your photos falling into the hands of
malicious parties it’s probably not a bad idea to
check your phone settings to see what data is
being automatically backed up to the cloud, and
disable automatic uploading.
Still, there’s no doubting that the cloud can be
very useful – ask anyone who has lost all their
photos and contact information because they lost
or broke their phone. Fortunately there are other
actions you can take to keep your data in the
cloud safe. Probably most importantly, you’ll
want to consider using a strong and secure
password.
So what makes a good password?
For starters, some computer security experts say
that password length is more important than
complexity, which means that a 16-character
memorable password like “ilovemysportscar” is
more difficult to guess than an eight-character
unmemorable password like “T9$ey!!q”. This is
because there are far more total possible
combinations of 16 characters than eight,
meaning malicious software must take longer to
hunt through all the possible options to find the
correct password. One survey found that 22% of
“strong” eight-character passwords that
contained numbers and symbols could be
cracked after 10 billion guesses – compared with
only 12% of 16 character passwords.
In his book How to Predict The Unpredictable, the
author William Poundstone proposes other tips,
such as including avoiding obvious number
substitutions – most people substitute the letter
“I” with a “1”, for example, which creates a false
sense of security. Better would be to create a
seemingly random string from the first letters of a
phrase you have memorised. (As an illustration,
the previous sentence in this paragraph could
become: “bwbtcasrsftfloapyhm”).
Alternatively, you might choose a random string
of letters and numbers, and use it to create a
nonsense sentence. So, the (admittedly too
short) password “RPM8t4Ka”, explains
Poundstone, might become “Revolutions Per
Minute, 8 track for Kathy”.
“I don’t know what it means,” he writes, “but I do
know it’s fairly easy to remember.
OK, that’s my email password changed. Am I
safe now?
Not completely. Even a 16-character password is
useless if you inadvertently hand it over to a
hacker. Unfortunately, that’s all too easily done.
Use an unsecure wi-fi hotspot, for example, and
an eavesdropper on the same hotspot can easily
monitor your internet activity and read your
passwords. If you’re not prompted to enter a
password to access a wi-fi hotspot, there’s a
good chance it isn’t secure . It’s probably best to
restrict your online activity to basic browsing on
these wi-fi hotspots, and perform more sensitive
actions (checking email, uploading data to the
cloud) on your home wi-fi or using your phone’s
secure data network – look for the 3G or 4G
symbol on your screen.
You can actually go one step further for minimal
extra fuss. Install a virtual private network (VPN)
app on your phone , switch it on when you’re on
a wi-fi hotspot and it will essentially make it
more secure: the app scrambles all of the data
from your online activity – including the
passwords you use to check email – in a way
that makes it unintelligible to eavesdroppers.
VPNs aren’t free, though, so privacy comes with
a price.
And that should protect me from data theft?
It’s a start – but you’ve still got work to do. We
don’t know for sure how hackers compromised
the online accounts of the celebrities at the
centre of the recent leak. There’s some evidence
that they exploited a vulnerability in Apple’s
iCloud service to repeatedly guess the user
password until they found the correct one. But
there is another way to gain access to
someone’s account, no matter how strong their
password is. If you know the person’s username,
you can ask the service provider to reset their
password using the “forgot my password”
function. To work this particular trick a hacker
needs to know a little information about the
person whose account they are trying to access
– things like their date of birth, their mother’s
maiden name, or the first school they attended –
so they can guess the answers to the security
questions that must be answered to reset the
password.
Of course, celebrities will find it difficult to keep
this kind of personal information secret, which
makes them particularly vulnerable to this form of
attack – Sarah Palin’s email account was hacked
this way in 2011 . But many of us are all too
willing to publish online the personal information
we rely on to protect our passwords – many of
us display our full date of birth on a social
network profile, for instance. Navigating the
privacy settings on social networks to hide this
data is often not easy, but in the interests of
keeping your data secure, it’s probably worth
taking the time to make sure this sensitive
information is kept out of sight of potential
fraudsters.
Some people even advocate using false
information on social networks – like an
incorrect date of birth or ‘un-birthday’ – to keep
your identity elsewhere secure.
OK, I’ve done all that. Am I finally safe?
Sadly, probably not. But you’ve certainly made
life more difficult for hackers. And there’s one
final trick you can use to add an extra layer of
security. Many email and cloud services now
offer two-factor authentication . With this service
enabled, simply entering your correct password
on a website won’t immediately offer you access
to your account – instead it might trigger an
automated call or text message to your mobile
phone that requires you to punch in a PIN to
complete the sign-in process. The idea is that
confirming your identity twice is more secure
than making you confirm it just once.
So I have to memorise, or do, yet another thing,
then?
As with almost all of these security measures,
two-factor authentication adds a little bit of
inconvenience every time you want to access
your account. Not everyone is prepared to trade
convenience for security. But the bottom line is
that we each have to make a personal decision
about just how seriously we value our online
privacy.
Is my personal information ever going to be
more secure?
As The Economist noted earlier this year
“Securing cyberspace is hard because the
architecture of the internet was designed to
promote connectivity, not security.” And this will
get harder over the next few years and decades,
as the “internet of things” begins to flourish –
where billions of devices, from cars to household
appliances to medical equipment, will be
connected to the web.
“The tactic of pumping out new software as fast
as possible and then issuing patches later to fix
flaws in the code may be tolerable if all that is
lost is data, but if it involves personal safety,
consumers will be less tolerant,” noted The
Economist. And if we want companies to be
more proactive in keeping our information safe,
then it’s all the more reason why we need to
make sure we take enough precautionary steps ourselves

source: www.bbc.com/future/story/20141010-the-secret-to-staying-safe-online

Wrote my shl on d 19th my first son was born. was in d hospital truout d nyt. missed his first cries narrowly cos of the test.he myt just be an nlng baby boy harbinger.....God direct us all.Aamin

for the time being,enjoying my paternity/annual leave

hollandis: People that have graduated complained there was no job for them .Why are you going into the same venture.Why can't you guys school abroad ,its a lot cheaper ,safer and rewarding.

About d cheap education,you mean "abroad" in benin republic?! Or abroad in U.K...?#justpassing

ASUU.......

Salaam Alaykum
I know this is nothing new to most muslims,but the barrage of attacks against anything on the web that talks about muslims on the web is twisted to attack and insult Islam,muslims and our noble prophet(S.A.W).What amazes me is the lack of any intelligent commentaries by the bigots. Right from the word go,their aim to any discerning human is to attack Islam.From Nigeria to USA,from whites to black,the attacks are not even a respecter of level of education or personality,or race.
But actually,I sometimes have a second thought about Nairaland,because of these brazen senseless attacks.
But what consoles me is the saying "WHOMEVER ALLAH GUIDES,NON CAN MISGUIDE,AND WHOMEVER HE MISGUIDES,NON CAN GUIDE".May Allah guide all those who fail to see the truth and may He make the muslims steadfast.
Final advice-If you are a muslim,NEVER Argue with a religious bigot because on matters related to the deen,it is futile as they will never comprehend.Rather give the correct Islamic/Shari'a view and leave.
May Allah forgive us and grant us Jannatul firdaus.Aamin

so you cannot paste the story...

Former Premier League player
Sam Sodje allegedly boasted
that he could control events
such as bookings The National Crime Agency is
investigating a fresh series of
match-fixing allegations after
claims that a former Premier
League player said he could
influence games in return for cash. Sam Sodje allegedly boasted
that he could control events
such as bookings, according to
allegations in the Sun on
Sunday.
It is also alleged that Sodje
punched an opponent in the
groin to get sent off and
receive a bung of £70,000. The
incident allegedly occurred
when he was playing for Portsmouth against Oldham
Athletic in February this year. Sodje allegedly showed
footage of himself hitting
Oldham's Jose Baxter and told
the Sun reporter: "OK listen.
This is when I was playing. Do
you know how much I got for that? £70k. Do you know
how much I got fined? I got
fined ten grand and I missed
six games. "I had to do it because the
referee wasn't booking me.
Come on, who does that?
Why would you do it on the
pitch? I was tackling, tackling,
it wasn't working and I went f*** that, I'm off." The former Portsmouth
player, 34, who is currently a
free agent, also said he had
arranged for one player to get
a yellow card in exchange for
"three bags, three zero", meaning £30,000. In interviews recorded by the
paper and handed to the NCA,
Sodje reportedly said: "This
guy came to meet me at my
house and it was sorted.
That's how easy it is - it's nothing." This former Premier League
player, who now plays in the
Championship, duly got
booked in the match in which
Sodje said he would, according
to the Sun. Sodje, who played in the
Premier League for Reading,
also allegedly claimed he could
fix top flight games although
it would take "a lot" of
money. A spokesman for the NCA said
last night: "We have received
some information from the
Sun on Sunday and as a result
of that there is an ongoing
investigation that is taking place." The allegations come after the
Telegraph revealed members
of an alleged betting syndicate
had been attempting to fix
English football games.
Source:www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/10503738/Sam-Sodje-at-centre-of-new-match-fixing-allegation.html

@op... your tenses are...

10. Believing you have so many Haters, and pretending you don't give a bleep about what they think or say: whereas you do. Just focus, nobody really has the time to hate you nowadays you know...

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Barca needs a Thiago Silva[b][/b] next season...Yes or No?