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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

5 worst cybersecurity habits with catastrophic consequences

October 10, 2017 by Amanda M Rossetti 2 Comments

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3231669/backup-recovery/5-worst-cybersecurity-habits-with-catastrophic-consequences.html

My article discusses the 5 worst cybersecurity habits. The 5 it identifies are: having a lax attitude, not protecting their email, clicking hyperlinks in emails, poor password practices, and not backup up data. These are all things I ‘ve seen discussed in a corporate setting but the article focuses on personal cybersecurity. Do you do any of these bad practices? It recommends using 2 factor authentication for emails, which I personally don’t do but I think I don’t have the other bad habits.

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  1. Shi Yu Dong says

    October 16, 2017 at 6:08 pm

    Hi Amanda:

    I think this article is fascinating and try to think like hackers is the best way to prevent any cyber attack

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  2. Donald Hoxhaj says

    October 19, 2017 at 3:46 pm

    Amanda – That’s an interesting article and definitely a good summary by you. It gives a lot of information about common habits when dealing with cybersecurity. Out of all the 5, I was personally able to relate No Data Backups as one of the worst habits I could have because I sometimes fail to do data backups on a constant basis. I wonder what would happen when one wants to recover all the uncorrupted data back. I find this quite interesting and there is a lot to learn from Lax attitude as well, something that I usually find across many people.

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