Privacy and Security – How do I Protect Myself ?

In today’s world, not everything is what it seems.

A prime example would be yesterday’s headlines.

What we do today about our Privacy and Security are more important than ever!
This thread is for discussion of and learning about self-preservation while we’re online.
What is out there to protect us?

What can we do to protect ourselves from those who would steal our information and rob our bank accounts?

What can we do to protect our privacy and secure our devices from those who would hold them hostage for ransom?


Personally I use the paid versions of Malwarebytes, Superantispyware along with Defender.
Also use Open DNS and VPN Unlimited.


As always, we must abide by the rules of TenForums ( https://www.tenforums.com/misc.php?do=showrules )
when discussing these types of situations, as emotions can run high.

This is an explanation from Malwarebytes of what happened yesterday and how it happened.

In the hours after this article was posted many other have also been published from round the world.

Feel free to share them, please be sure they are from a credible source to avoid posting misinformation inadvertently.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cyberc..._medium=social

This is the latest article from Krebs on Security.

Global Krebs on Security

This is another update from Krebs.

Krebs on Security

z3r010 said:

I'm not 100% but when I tried open DNS it seemed like they were harvesting my search data.

Before I installed Open DNS and VPN Unlimited,
when doing a search for anything I would receive email from different places for the same things I was searching for.

Now I don't receive anything at all after doing search.

Wynona said:

Same here, although I still don't have Open DNS installed.

Then the VPN is doing the job alone.
If you install Marcs Updater to use with the VPN as simrick suggested, you will need to have Open DNS installed also.
There was an update to Marcs Updater on 4.23. and now it work smoothly.
Marcs Updater - Downloads