HOW TO STAY SECURE IN DANGEROUS TIMES (2021 EDITION)

This guide has few areas, where one can improve his security standards.

HUMAN FACTOR

• each protection can be broken by human and cause of human mistake
• verify who are you talking to, callback to your bank to check if it’s their employee asking suspicious questions
• your friend on Facebook needs some money urgently, call his mobile and confirm it
• your real inbox can also be a target of attack, someone can try to trick you into some payment
• end-user education is a must in your company

VPN

• can make tracking you harder, assuming provider itself is not some malicious actor
• allows to bypass restrictions like geographic or law ones
• if you’re using hotspot, encrypts your traffic so other cannot spy on you in this public network
• do not trust completely VPN providers, they aren’t always honest about “zero logs policy” and can be hacked as well
• best bet is to go with your own VPN and don’t store logs there, great tool for it is algo
• for shady stuff, you can always rent VPS with BitCoins and provision it with your VPN…