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Chapter 9: Securing Your System: Protecting Your Digital Data and Devices
- Keeping Your Data Safe
- IC3: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx. A partnership among the FBI, BJA, and NW3C that serves to collect, develop, and refer cybercrime complaints.
- CAPTCHA: http://www.google.com/recaptcha. A small Web applet that helps Web forms validate that entries are indeed being submitted by humans and not malicious Web crawlers.
- Computer Threats: Computer Viruses
- Computer Safeguards: Antivirus and Software Updates
- Antivirus Software
- Software Updates
- Computer Threats: Hackers
- Restricting Access to Your Digital Assets
- Firewalls
- Types of Firewalls
- Knowing Your Computer Is Secure
- Gibson Research Corporation: http://www.grc.com. Provider of software to protect your computer, including vulnerability checking software.
- Preventing Bluetooth Attacks
- Password Protection and Password Management
- Anonymous Web Surfing: Hiding from Prying Eyes
- IronKey: www.ironkey.com. Manufacturer of the world’s most secure flash drive and provider of remote management.
- PenDriveLinux: www.pendrivelinux.com. The power of Linux on a flash drive.
- Hotspot Shield: http://www.hotspotshield.com/. A free software utility that ensures all of your data is transmitted across the Internet through a virtual private network.
- Biometric Authentication Devices
- Managing Online Annoyances
- Spam
- SneakEmail.com: www.sneakemail.com. Disposable e-mail service designed to eliminate spam.
- SPAMfighter: http://www.spamfighter.com/. A third-party spam filter available for many of the Microsoft and Mozilla e-mail programs.
- Spam Laws: www.spamlaws.com. Up-to-date information on issues affecting Internet security.
- Cookies
- Kookaburra: www.kburra.com. Small footprint software, like Cookie Pal, designed for Windows that doesn’t waste system resources, particularly Internet connection and cookie management software.
- Cookie Central: www.cookiecentral.com. Comprehensive resource on Internet cookies, including what they are, and how to block or stop them.
- Protecting Yourself From Yourself
- Protecting Your Personal Information
- Social Engineering: Fooling the Unwary
- Phishing and Pharming
- Hoaxes
- Republic of Cascadia: www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus. An example of a hoax Web site.
- Snopes.com: www.snopes.com. Snopes is dedicated to busting urban legends. Check out this Web site if you want to know if that ominous e-mail you were forwarded is true or not.
- TruthOrFiction: truthorfiction.com. A searchable database of hoaxes, e-rumors, viruses, and more.
- Hoax-Slayer: www.hoax-slayer.com. A site that debunks e-mail hoaxes and Internet scams.
- Protecting Your Physical Computing Assets
- Absolute Software: www.absolute.com. This company can physically recover stolen computers and remotely delete sensitive files as well as deliver state-of-the-art IT asset management.
- Brigadoon Security Group: www.pcphonehome.com. Provides software to protect computers against theft.
- Tealpoint Software: www.tealpoint.com. Creator of productivity-based software solutions for the Palm computing platform.