My 10 Security Expert Rehabilitation

Over at ha.ckers.org RSnake made a blog post about common mistakes the average or novice computer users does. You can find his post if you click on the ('ha.ckers.org') link now here is my top 10 feel free to add your own in my blog comments.

1. Social Networks:
Now most of the users now days in the security feild are usually around the ages of 14-19 so im sure most of them have some sort of social networking accounts such as Myspace,Bebo,Facebook so forth and so on. But these social accounts can be a breeding ground for attackers do not fill in each feild accuritly such as.

Address: my address
fullname: here , here
dob: here
phone number: here

Thanks for handing out the information the attacker will think now if you do post information make sure to make your account private.

2.Passwords:
Do not share your passwords with your friends or jot it down on a sticky note and post it some were. But if you are forgetful the write your password down in a journal of some sort were you won't loss it and you know nobody will see it. Also make sure to use different passwords for different things you do not want to use the same password for everything.

3.Information:
Let's say your putting some old laptop you used years ago or an old desktop make sure to remove and clean up everything before you sell the hardware. You do not want other people viewing your information so clean it up!

4.Emails:
When receiving emails from unknown users do not every put any sort of information in such as your

-fullname
-dob
-credit card information
-phone number
-address

Banks or other related websites do not request that sort of information over an email address also watch out for attackments. Just because your family or friends do not email you and you get an email address out of the blue do not fill everything out and start to download random sh..t.

5.Important Information:
Throwing away things like credit reports,email account information etc etc. Do not just throw it away because people do go threw your garbage im not saying every where but in some parts they do. A good example of this is in this video by the Tiger Team check it out its on youtube link... episode one part one here...

6.P2P Sharing:
When installing this software make sure to disable the folder sharing you do not want to get caught up just because you didn't check some boxes.

7.Pictures:
If you do take pictures of let's say your car (Ive seen many people taking pictures with there license plate number on the back) make sure to blur or cross out those things like I said before why hand people information. You may think your just a normal user and nobody will think about attacking you your wrong just do the following and you will be safe.

8.Wifi Box:
For your wireless internet make sure to put a password on it so random users cannot access your internet.

9.Phishing:
Look at the url before entering sensitive information because phishing is a growing thing

10.Spank me:
hard! :-)