Protecting your online accounts

Stories

Do you know of anyone who has experienced these kinds of attacks?

  1. Receive threats and unfavorable comments
  2. Compromised accounts
  3. Doxxing
  4. DDOS

Strategies

  • Question: if you experienced any of the above attacks, is your instinct to hide or fight back?
  • Open vs Closed organizing: trade offs
  • Separating personal from work and organization accounts
  • Organization culture - supporting each other
  • Legal / Law Enforcement
  • Knowing your tech providers

Technologies

  • Password Managers: keepass, browser, lastpass
  • Two factor authentication
  • Upgrade Software
  • Deflect
  • Turn off Bluetooth!

  • Research yourself

  • Set privacy settings in Twitter and Facebook

Wrap up

  • If you are attacked, you are doing something right - be bold
  • Fear of attack is the power of the attack

Glossary / Glosario

Materials

Resources

Training Category: 
Security