When you take a new web service or application to use, on the screen appeared in a number of forms to fill out. Usually there are asked to tell the name in addition to date of birth, home address, telephone number and email address.

Several people record this information accurately it without thinking. You shouldn’t, says security expert Rik Ferguson .

– Think of information currency and share them with the same enthusiasm as you share your money, Ferguson advises.

Last week, the Cyber Security the Nordic exhibition in Helsinki, visited Ferguson pointed out that the forms need to give the right information.

You don’t need to speak the truth on the internet.

a Number at least email address must be entered in the application truthfully, to the required confirmation messages will come your way. This is the solution. It is temporary, i.e. burner-email address, whose only function is to allow access to the service.

the technology company Apple released in September, the new operating system update, where this feature is built-in. Iphone users can continue to decide on what application they give the correct email address. Other services Apple create an email address to which incoming messages are transmitted to the user to the correct address. If the service starts spamming my mailbox, the user is able to easily destroy a burner address.

the Truth may get out, but a lie is hard to guess

to Lie is to also password forgotten in case of a created security issues. The purpose of these questions is to ensure that the password of the forgotten person is really you, and not someone else. Therefore, the question the answer should be one that only you know.

It, where you went to school or what is your mother’s maiden name, do not have such information.

– All who went with you to school, they know it. All who are acquainted with your mother, knew most likely her maiden name, Ferguson said.

These are exactly the kind of information that attackers gather and exploit. The truth is easy to find, but a lie is hard to guess. That is, if a security question is what was your first car, your response should not put the Mazda 323, but the Aston Martin DB5.

after This just need to take care, that the remember their own lies.

Information can always leak

disclosure of personal information to a known and reliable company is not dangerous. The only problem is that reliable companies do not have. Each of the company’s registry, you may experience a data breach. Forms filling is good to remember that the information might leak to the public.

Numerous information leaks hit the internet to find a huge number of registers which names and addresses in addition to containing passwords. Some of the information is outdated, but there is still kurantti stuff.

Already in the near future machine learning with the help of created tools can be used for the extraction of the stolen data and carry out more targeted attacks, Ferguson said.

This is why it is important that when your information leaking to the internet, they are not real. Often information asking for an application is not a condition of justification uteluun. The data are collected, because people are willing to give them. And this generosity has made the data even more valuable.

What more we tell ourselves to others, the more they have learned to make information money.

Repair 11.10.2019 at 11: 30 am: Corrected description text to be incorrect information. Trend Micro is not american but a multinational corporation, headquartered in Japan.

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