[IT Security] Five ways to protect yourself in a multi-device, multi-platform world
Once upon a time, security was easy - or at least, relatively so. Windows might have a lot of vulnerabilities, but it’s “the devil we know.” And we knew what to do to protect it: Keep it patched, run anti-virus/anti-malware, use a firewall, follow some best practices. You could even reduce the odds of getting hacked, if only through security by obscurity, by using a non-Windows operating system. In the words of a best-selling novelist, the world moved on. Today we do our computing in a multi-device, multi-platform world. Linux-based operating systems such as Android are proving to have plenty of vulnerabilities of their own. And as Mat Honan’s recent experience with being “hacked hard” shows, using iPhones, iPads and MacBooks no longer protects you from having your accounts taken over and your devices wiped by an attacker. What can you do to avoid being victimized? The first step is a change in attitude: You have to stop thinking of security as a Windows problem or an...