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Update your operating system and programs
These should be familiar
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Don't Log in as Admin
There are 2 types of accounts:
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Administrator accounts are like having the keys to the kingdom. Attackers love them.
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Understand the Warnings
...but, warnings don't always make a lot of sense..
Verified Publishers
Software signing a A way of checking who authored a piece of software
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- May 2017 an exploit for Windows was released
- Attackers used exploit to distribute ransomware
- Microsoft had patched the vulnerability one month before
What happened when you get
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ransomware'd
- Can't access your files
- Pay $300 to get them back
- but, you never get them back
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