Stay Safe Online Part 2

We wrap up our 2 parter on protecting your identity, your accounts & your devices. We dive into how to protect your home network, your devices & how not to get snooped on when using public Wi-Fi.

Episode 47 of the The Better Show podcast, hosted by Ian Mikutel, March Rogers, Darren Austin, titled "Stay Safe Online Part 2" was published on August 6, 2018 and runs 56 minutes.

August 6, 2018 ·56m · The Better Show

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Summary

We wrap up our 2 parter on protecting your identity, your accounts & your devices. We dive into how to protect your home network, your devices & how not to get snooped on when using public Wi-Fi.

Episode Description

We wrap up our 2 parter on protecting your identity, your accounts & your devices. We dive into how to protect your home network, your devices & how not to get snooped on when using public Wi-Fi.

Show Notes

2:00— March shares some advice about using a separate email address for your most sensitive accounts.
3:40–March discusses 2-step verification
5:15— How to choose a good secret question
11:32— How to be safe on social media; Privacy Checkup on Facebook; making sure that your profile and posts not is not public; finding out what apps are connected to your Facebook account
16:50—TakeThisLollipop.com
19:50— Different ways to use Twitter as a public
22:18— How to be safe using public WiFi networks using VPNs.
30:14— How to secure your home WiFi network by changing your default password, updating your router software, disabling WPS, and setting your router to not broadcast the network name.
42:20— The importance of applying the latest software updates to your electronics
45:43— How to leverage your browser’s security warnings to recognize when you are about to visit a sketchy web site
47:40— Monitoring your credit reports and credit score
50:30— Ian commits to updating his router software
50:40— March decides to start using a password manager and a VPN for public browsing
51:59— Darren is going to disable WPS on his routers and set his routers to stop broadcasting the network name.