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Stay Safe Online Part 2
Episode Summary
We wrap up our 2 parter on protecting your identity, your accounts & your devices. We dive into how to protect your home network, your devices & how not to get snooped on when using public Wi-Fi.
Episode Notes
We wrap up our 2 parter on protecting your identity, your accounts & your devices. We dive into how to protect your home network, your devices & how not to get snooped on when using public Wi-Fi.
Show Notes
- 2:00— March shares some advice about using a separate email address for your most sensitive accounts.
- 3:40–March discusses 2-step verification
- 5:15— How to choose a good secret question
- 11:32— How to be safe on social media; Privacy Checkup on Facebook; making sure that your profile and posts not is not public; finding out what apps are connected to your Facebook account
- 16:50—TakeThisLollipop.com
- 19:50— Different ways to use Twitter as a public
- 22:18— How to be safe using public WiFi networks using VPNs.
- 30:14— How to secure your home WiFi network by changing your default password, updating your router software, disabling WPS, and setting your router to not broadcast the network name.
- 42:20— The importance of applying the latest software updates to your electronics
- 45:43— How to leverage your browser’s security warnings to recognize when you are about to visit a sketchy web site
- 47:40— Monitoring your credit reports and credit score
- 50:30— Ian commits to updating his router software
- 50:40— March decides to start using a password manager and a VPN for public browsing
- 51:59— Darren is going to disable WPS on his routers and set his routers to stop broadcasting the network name.
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