iSD in the Tech Age!
Net-self-defense, we spend an exorbitant amount of time on our physical defense training and then we forget that our lives are in just as much danger of "Grave Financial Harm" or Financial ruin (Death) as if we are attacked by a street predator. Research and studies show, from the security experts in this field, that Anti-virus and Firewall suites only catch about 5% of the threats out there and those same folks tell us that it is in all probability worse at the Enterprise levels.
My goal here is to educate myself, and by proxy, pass on what I learn to others so that each individual who is connected at any level can take steps to achieve some semblance of security in their electronic on-line lives. We are so deeply imbedded in modern technology that to not take appropriate actions to learn iSD or internet self-defense in the technological age is just foolishness.
My goal is to provide enough of a foundation that readers, like me, can take the appropriate actions, i.e., apply those fundamental principles of technological methodologies to safeguard one of the more important, actually critical, strategies and tactics to defend ourselves from grave economical harm or even economical/financial death or ruin from nefarious predatory hacking processes.
Nothing in this blog is definitive, it is meant to set a foundation of knowledge, understanding and awareness so that you are not one day blindsided by some effort to steal your very life out from underneath you so fast you feel like you have been hit behind the ear and knocked into a daze of confusion, fear and finally anger where your tech-life falls apart and ruins your real life utterly, completely and with no light in sight down that dark, empty and black hole.
The Touch ID Hack
ReplyDeleteThe hack that won a huge monetary prize was not as code specific as I thought. It led me to add in that if you decide to use the TouchID for security on your phone or other computer devices you had better get into the habit of wiping the surface after each use in case you lose the phone.
Then again, with this hack published to every single cyber-criminal in the world you would have to wipe each and every surface you touch at ever location and in every situation where your bare fingers make contact with most surfaces.
If you become paranoid enough and if you have not contributed your fingerprints to TouchID or any other fingerprint oriented security device you may be ok and if not, you can always wear gloves every single moment of both waking and sleeping time.
Ain’t life a hoot and it goes to show that no matter how good security developments are there is always some human out there that can create a work-around to bypass said security model.
Oh, and no, I am not going to provide the hack process here because I don’t want to promote that hack so if you want to find it, go find it yourself cause I ain’t going to make it easier for you than I have too.