Linux Format Magazine October 2016 Retour à l'édition précédente

STOP THE HACKERS
Whether it’s pesky nation states taking an interest in Auntie Ethel’s dark web browsing, ad networks tracking users’ daily surfing routines or hackers in Eastern Europe hijacking Amazon accounts and ordering bulk confectioneries, there’s plenty to be wary of online. With so much of our lives lived online, if systems are compromised or credentials fall into the wrong hands then things can get ugly pretty quickly. Most banks will act quickly to cancel cards when fraudulent transactions are detected, and generally they will provide refunds, though the process is tedious. But there are other risks as well, chief among them is identity theft. Convincing someone that the person that’s claiming to be you was not, in fact, you but this person talking to them now is very definitely, absolutely you, can be tricky.