{"id":74313,"date":"2017-12-10T02:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-wired-guide-to-digital-security"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:01:34","slug":"the-wired-guide-to-digital-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-wired-guide-to-digital-security","title":{"rendered":"The WIRED Guide to Digital Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-wired-guide-to-digital-security.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN AN AGE of nonstop breaches and hacks, getting a handle on your own digital security matters more than ever. But everyone has their own threat model\u2014a set of concerns unique to themselves. The average smartphone user doesn\u2019t need to know what a Faraday cage is; an NSA contractor probably already has a good grasp of security basics. (Or \u2026 do they?) In this guide, we\u2019ve included a few ways to improve your online security posture based on those different levels of risk. These won\u2019t prevent the next megabreach or banish ransomware from the earth. They\u2019re not all-encompassing. But they\u2019ll help get you in the mindset of the types of steps you should be taking based on your particular situation. And they\u2019ll help ensure that the next time you read one of those paralyzing headlines, it doesn\u2019t apply to you.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In an age of nonstop breaches and hacks, getting a handle on your own digital security matters more than ever. But everyone has their own threat model\u2014a set of concerns unique to themselves. The average smartphone user doesn\u2019t need to know what a Faraday cage is; an NSA contractor probably already has a good grasp of security basics. (Or \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nsa-contractors-hacking-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\">do they<\/a>?) In this guide, we\u2019ve included a few ways to improve your online security posture based on those different levels of risk. These won\u2019t prevent the next megabreach or banish ransomware from the earth. They\u2019re not all-encompassing. But they\u2019ll help get you in the mindset of the types of steps you should be taking based on your particular situation. And they\u2019ll help ensure that the next time you read one of those paralyzing headlines, it doesn\u2019t apply to you.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/12\/digital-security-guide\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/12\/digital-security-guide\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN AN AGE of nonstop breaches and hacks, getting a handle on your own digital security matters more than ever. But everyone has their own threat model\u2014a set of concerns unique to themselves. The average smartphone user doesn\u2019t need to know what a Faraday cage is; an NSA contractor probably already has a good grasp [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74347,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74313\/revisions\/74347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}