In today’s last episode of the security series, we are discussing how you can prevent security threats from happening to you locally on your computer to threats happening over the internet. We also discussed how you can make your online activity as private as possible. We will give you tips, mechanisms, and resources as to how you can achieve those things.

Episode Timeline

01:30 Episode title introduction

02:46 How do we keep our computer safe from threats

03:30 Importance of keeping your system up to date

06:30 How your antivirus should be set up

08:10 Using a third party DNS

13:11 Keeping yourself secure on the internet

14:10 Which type of data you should keep private

16:05 Knowing which types of links to click

17:00 Scams over the internet

19:00 Using strong passwords

20:00 Back up your data

24:12 Knowing when to give native applications certain permissions

27:00 Identifying which contents are official and true

29:30 How important is your privacy over the internet

32:42 Compartmentalizing online services to different companies and platforms

34:14 Using a VPN and the TOR browser

35:45 Intermediate privacy mechanisms

36:45 Preferring PWAs over native applications

38:00 Preferring open source software

39:32 Lower level privacy mechanisms

42:55 Having privacy rules in place by governments

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