How to Keep Your Online Accounts Secure in 2024
The importance of safeguarding your online accounts cannot be overstated. The year 2024 brings with it new threats, advanced hacking techniques, and increasingly sophisticated scams. Learning how to keep your online accounts secure in 2024 is not just a precaution; it’s a necessity. This guide will take you through the essential steps to protect your online presence, drawing on my own experience,…
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Cybersecurity Report: Protecting DHS Employees from Scams Targeting Personal Devices
🔒 DHS Cybersecurity Alert! 🔒 Scammers targeting personal devices threaten national security. Our new report reveals these risks & offers robust solutions - MFA, security software, cybersecurity training & more. Safeguard yourself & critical operations!
Introduction
The digital age has ushered in an era of unprecedented connectivity and technological advancements, but it has also given rise to a new breed of threats that transcend traditional boundaries. Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics, exploiting vulnerabilities in both organizational systems and personal devices to gain unauthorized access, steal sensitive data, and…
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Unlock Fort Knox for Your Laptop: The Definitive Guide to Bulletproof Security
What steps can I take to enhance my laptop's security?
Dive into my latest Blog post and discover the ultimate secrets to fortifying your laptop's defenses! Transform your device into a digital fortress and safeguard your data like never before.
From foolproof password strategies to state-of-the-art encryption techniques, explore a treasure trove of tips and tricks to keep hackers at bay. Say goodbye to cyber worries and hello to peace of mind!
Ready to take control of your laptop's security? Arm yourself with knowledge now!
Read the full post and become the guardian of your digital domain. #LaptopFortress #SecureYourData #ReadMore
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Importance Of Using Password Manager
A password manager stores all your passwords in a single account. The master password to your safe is the only the password you'll ever need to remember.
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The global password management market is experiencing growth due to several factors, including a rise in the adoption of remote work culture, an increase in demand for convenient authentication methods, and cybersecurity concerns among consumers
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What are Session and Federation Management Techniques
Session and federation management are critical aspects of identity and access management (IAM) in modern web applications and systems. They deal with how user authentication and authorization are handled across different services and applications.
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TIL that you can assign an AO3 next of kin to control your account in case of your death???
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Online Security in the Age of AI: Protecting Your Data and Privacy
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity concerns have grown exponentially. As AI continues to advance, so do the capabilities of cybercriminals who use sophisticated tools and techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in the digital world. In this article, we’ll explore the challenges and risks associated with online security in the AI era, and provide practical tips for protecting…
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andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:
“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”
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Okay, look, they talk to a Google rep in some of the video clips, but I give it a pass because this FREE course is a good baseline for personal internet safety that so many people just do not seem to have anymore. It's done in short video clip and article format (the videos average about a minute and a half). This is some super basic stuff like "What is PII and why you shouldn't put it on your twitter" and "what is a phishing scam?" Or "what is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS and why do you care?"
It's worrying to me how many people I meet or see online who just do not know even these absolute basic things, who are at constant risk of being scammed or hacked and losing everything. People who barely know how to turn their own computers on because corporations have made everything a proprietary app or exclusive hardware option that you must pay constant fees just to use. Especially young, somewhat isolated people who have never known a different world and don't realize they are being conditioned to be metaphorical prey animals in the digital landscape.
Anyway, this isn't the best internet safety course but it's free and easy to access. Gotta start somewhere.
Here's another short, easy, free online course about personal cyber security (GCFGlobal.org Introduction to Internet Safety)
Bonus videos:
(Jul 13, 2023, runtime 15:29)
"He didn't have anything to hide, he didn't do anything wrong, anything illegal, and yet he was still punished."
(Apr 20, 2023; runtime 9:24 minutes)
"At least 60% use their name or date of birth as a password, and that's something you should never do."
(March 4, 2020, runtime 11:18 minutes)
"Crossing the road safely is a basic life skill that every parent teaches their kids. I believe that cyber skills are the 21st century equivalent of road safety in the 20th century."
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can you actually talk about bitwarden / password managers, or direct me to a post about them? Idk my (completely uneducated) instinct says that trusting one application with all your passwords is about as bad as having the same password for everything, but clearly that isn’t the case.
So it is true that online password managers present a big juicy target, and if you have very stringent security requirements you'd be better off with an offline password manager that is not exposed to attack.
However, for most people the alternative is "reusing the same password/closely related password patterns for everything", the risk that one random site gets compromised is much higher than the risk that a highly security focussed password provider gets compromised.
Which is not to say it can't happen, LastPass gets hacked alarmingly often, but most online password managers do their due diligence. I am more willing to stash my passwords with 1Password or Bitwarden or Dashlane than I am to go through the rigamarole of self-managing an array of unique passwords across multiple devices.
Bitwarden and other password managers try to store only an encrypted copy of your password vault, and they take steps to ensure you never ever send them your decryption key. When you want a password, you ask them for your vault, you decrypt it with your key, and now you have a local decrypted copy without ever sending your key to anyone. If you make changes, you make them locally and send back an encrypted updated vault.
As a result, someone who hacks Bitwarden should in the absolute worst case get a pile of encrypted vaults, but without each individuals' decryption key those vaults are useless. They'd still have to go around decrypting each vault one by one. Combining a good encryption algorithm, robust salting, and a decent key, you can easily get a vault to "taking the full lifetime of the universe" levels on security against modern cryptographic attacks.
Now there can be issues with this. Auto-fill can be attacked if you go onto a malicious website, poorly coded managers can leak information or accidentally include logging of passwords when they shouldn't, and obviously you don't know that 1Password isn't backdoored by the CIA/Mossad/Vatican. If these are concerns then you shouldn't trust online password managers, and you should use something where you remain in control of your vault and only ever manually handle your password.
Bitwarden is open source and fairly regularly audited, so you can be somewhat assured that they're not compromised. If you are worried about that, you can use something like KeePassXC/GNU Pass/Himitsu/ (which all hand you the vault file and it's your job to keep track of it and keep it safe) or use clever cryptographic methods (like instead of storing a password you use a secret key to encrypt and hash a reproducible code and use that as your password, e.g. my netflix password could be hash(crypt("netflixkalium", MySecretKey)), I know a few people who use that method.
Now with any luck because Apple is pushing for passkeys (which is just a nice name for a family of cryptographic verification systems that includes FIDO2/Webauthn) we can slowly move away from the nightmare that is passwords altogether with some kind of user friendly public key based verification, but it'll be a few years before that takes off. Seriously the real issue with a password is that with normal implementations every time you want to use it you have to send your ultra secret password over the internet to the verifying party.
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Aro culture is the amount of ads i get for dating apps whenever i go anywhere near the internet
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Y’all ok remember that game Prodigy? The math game?
so my brother sent me a really old screenshot with no context
Which looks fine but then
there’s this in the corner
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
FUCKING SCREAMING???? LIKE WHAT KIND OF EASTER EGG IS THIS DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPLANATION FOR THIS ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
it’s in the crystal caverns place,,,,, I was thinking of replaying that place again to see if it’s still there 🫡
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yesterday i turned 30 so unfortunately i must commit seppuku and delete my blog
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hows the tutor with uhh stelle :33?
Guess who stole someone's phone~
THAT'S RIGHT. IT'S ME, STELLE.
YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD CONFISCATE MY PHONE JUST LIKE THAT, HUH???
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