CHAPTER 1: THE INTERNET

When you use the Internet you are potentially creating a path for an attacker to get into your personal space, or to get your information. There are security controls you can put in place and also a few key behaviours for using the Internet that will better protect your information.

1.1 Connecting

The first thing to do for the internet is secure the connection. The ways to connect to the internet are introduced here as it is logical to understand this before you connect, but they are explained in greater detail in later sections.

Home networks (section 5.1) – this connection is secured by the home network encryption (section 5.1) and secured by password or passphrase (section 5.1).

Mobile network (section 6.3) – this connection ...

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