How Secure Are You Online: The Checklist

Since we conduct most of our daily activities online (i.e. pay bills, talk with friends, make business contacts, etc.), it's essential that we become aware of and use online security measures.

Thorni Klosowski's recent article "How Secure are You Online: The Checklist" on Lifehacker provides some useful tips for enhancing our online security in four areas:

• passwords
• browsers
• at-home Wi-Fi and networking
• browing on public Wi-fi.

Learning more about online security and ways we can protect personal data will continue to grow in importance as personal interactions, commercial transactions, and business communications continue to incorporate online tools.

It's up to us to learn more. Checklists like those offered by Klosowski are a start. Dick Smith Library also offers useful resources on the topic. A few titles are listed below. Each entry includes a link to the item's catalog record so you can learn more about it (records may take a few seconds to load):

• Computer Ethics by Robert Plotkin
  General Stacks -- QA76.9 .M65 P46 2012
• Data: Ethical Use and Storage by Video Education Australasia.
  streaming video -- requires NTNET login
• The Facebook Obsession by Films Media Group
  streaming video -- requires NTNET login
• Lol -- omg!: What Every Student Needs to Know about Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship, and Cyberbullying by Matt Ivester
  General Stacks -- HQ799.9 .I58 I94 2011
• Privacy online: Perspectives on Privacy and Self-disclosure in the Social Web edited by Sabine Trepte and Leonard Reinecke
  General Stacks -- HM742 .P75 2011
• Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy
  General Stacks QA76.9 .C66 H33 201
• Think b4 u Post: Your Reputation and Privacy on Social Networking Sites by Cambridge Educational
  streaming video -- requires NTNET login

To locate more information about online privacy or computer security, you can search the library's catalog and our subscription databases, as well as use Discovery@Tarleton.