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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
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© Marvin Waschke 2017
Marvin WaschkePersonal Cybersecurity10.1007/978-1-4842-2430-4_9

9. Personal Defense

Stay Safe
Marvin Waschke
(1)
Bellingham, Washington, USA
 
Personal cybersecurity is lopsided in favor of the criminals. Criminals may attack and be repulsed hundreds of times before they are successful, but the victim must deflect every single attack or they lose. Does that mean we all should give up and suffer? Or quit using our computers? No. There is no guarantee that anyone can stop every attack that the criminals throw at us, but the odds that the bad guys will be successful can be reduced. When they do succeed, the damage can be minimized.
Stopping the criminals does take some effort. You must gauge for yourself the effort you want to expend. ...
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