Cyber Smart, Bart R. McDonough
Cyber Smart, Bart R. McDonough
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Cyber Smart
Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals

Author: Bart R. McDonough

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/19/2019


Synopsis

The rise of new technologies in our lives, which has taken us from powerful mobile phones to fitness trackers and smart appliances in under a decade, has also raised the need for everyone who uses these to protect themselves from cyber scams and hackers. Every new device and online service you use that improves your life also opens new doors for attackers looking to discover your passwords, banking accounts, personal photos, and anything else you want to keep secret.

In Cyber Smart, author Bart McDonough uses his extensive cybersecurity experience speaking at conferences for the FBI, major financial institutions, and other clients to answer the most common question he hears: "How can I protect myself at home, on a personal level, away from the office?" McDonough knows cybersecurity and online privacy are daunting to the average person, so Cyber Smart simplifies online good hygiene with five simple "Brilliance in the Basics" habits anyone can learn. With those habits and his careful debunking of common cybersecurity myths you'll be able to protect yourself and your family from:

● Identify theft

● Compromising your children

● Lost money

● Lost access to email and social media accounts

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

This book is intended for the general reader, and although written in clear, concise English, this is more detail than most people are likely to seek. It is a guidebook, not a page-turner. That being said, the book is skimmable and generously spaced,meaning it's not nearly as long as it looks. More......more

Goodreads review by Obi

Ding ding ding threat has been detected! It is a common threat popups you get if you’ve ever used the Avast antivirus software which instantly sets you into a frenzy of worries- Am I infected? How? When? Where? What do I do?- and so on. Clearly there are only so much those softwares can do, hence wh......more

Goodreads review by Nathan

[Note:  This book was provided free of charge by BookSirens.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] It should be stated at the outset that there is a lot of good advice in this particular book, which is aimed at an audience that is fairly low-information but not entirely uninterested in cybersecurit......more

Goodreads review by Ben

The first edition of Computer Security Basics by Deborah Russell & G.T Gangemi (O'Reilly 978-0596006693) came out almost 30 years ago. One might think that knowing those computer security basics would be enough to help them avoid being a victim today. But even if the book came out 5 years ago, so mu......more