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Personal Cybersecurity: How to Avoid and Recover from Cybercrime
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Personal Cybersecurity: How to Avoid and Recover from Cybercrime

by Marvin Waschke
January 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
240 pages
8h 24m
English
Apress
Content preview from Personal Cybersecurity: How to Avoid and Recover from Cybercrime
© Marvin Waschke 2017
Marvin WaschkePersonal Cybersecurity10.1007/978-1-4842-2430-4_1

1. What’s Biting Us

Who and What Does Cybercrime Hurt?
Marvin Waschke
(1)
Bellingham, Washington, USA
 
When I hear the news about the latest computer security breach, I am so dismayed that I want to turn off my smartphone, tablet, and laptop and quietly lock them in the bottom drawer of my desk. But I don’t. I have designed and written computer software for decades, and I will not accept that the work that I and many others have done over the years is being subverted by disgruntled misfits, criminals, and thugs. I take a deep breath and think through what has happened and why it took place.
Turning off personal computers does not help much. Lapses in security in other ...
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