Tag: internet security

Guest Post by aka.attrition

Privacy and security are not easy and especially for those of us who are not very computer literate. Coming from an information technology (IT) background with special interest in information security (infosec) I decided to write an article for the layman (don’t give me no uphill about politically correct words!) to help you increase your security and protect your privacy a little more.  This is a small contribution to this website where I spend far too much time reading the articles and especially the major commentators – you know who you are. Thanks Jim and the heavy hitters.

The full article is broken down into four parts;

Part 1

• The one thing you need to do with your browser
• Ad-blockers and anti-trackers
• Internet search

Part 2

• Email
• DNS servers
• Virtual Private Networks – VPN

Part 3

• Windows 10/11 – the boss tracker and what you can do about it.

Part 4

• Fingerprinting you

I realize that some of these topics can be a hard for the non-IT / computer oriented person and I write this article with those end-users in mind, not an IT professional audience. There are very many options, settings, and tools one can use but in this article I’m going to restrict it to just a few of the biggest-bang-for-your-buck changes, those things we should all be able to implement without too much IT knowledge. After all, we have day jobs.

Continue reading “InfoSec for TBP Readers – Part 4”

Guest Post by aka.attrition

Privacy and security are not easy and especially for those of us who are not very computer literate. Coming from an information technology (IT) background with special interest in information security (infosec) I decided to write an article for the layman (don’t give me no uphill about politically correct words!) to help you increase your security and protect your privacy a little more.  This is a small contribution to this website where I spend far too much time reading the articles and especially the major commentators – you know who you are. Thanks Jim and the heavy hitters.

The full article is broken down into three four parts;

Part 1 (click to see article)

• The one thing you need to do with your browser
• Ad-blockers and anti-trackers
• Internet search

Part 2 (click to see article)

• Email
• DNS servers
• Virtual Private Networks – VPN

Part 3

• Windows 10/11 – the boss tracker and what you can do about it.

Part 4 (if there is interest)

• Fingerprinting you

I realize that some of these topics can be a hard for the non-IT / computer oriented person and I write this article with those end-users in mind, not an IT professional audience. There are very many options, settings, and tools one can use but in this article I’m going to restrict it to just a few of the biggest-bang-for-your-buck changes, those things we should all be able to implement without too much IT knowledge. After all, we have day jobs.

Continue reading “InfoSec for TBP Readers – Part 3”