Hi! Thanks for attending my talk on SQL Injections and Privacy. Here's a list of things which you will find useful at all times to help protect your digital privacy! And as always, Stay Safe & Stay Secure! 🙂
Read-up on data breaches
Yahoo says all three billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft
Yahoo Data Breach #1
Yahoo Discloses 2013 Breach that Exposed Over One Billion Accounts
Yahoo Data Breach #2
Aadhaar 'breach': Everything you need to know
Aadhar Data Breach #1
Aadhar Breach - A Case of Data Privacy in India
Aadhar Data Breach #2
This scumbag stole and traded victims' nude pics and vids after guessing their passwords, security answers
Guys and girls, don't do this. Think before you take such pictures and also, never store anything self-incriminating digitally.
Browser hardening
uBlock Origin - Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
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Yet Another Firefox Hardening Guide | Chris Xiao
Here's a very detailed guide on how to harden Firefox beyond the basics that I've shared. I highly recommend following these but then again, it's up to you, young warrior.
Careers mind map
Get the basics right. Then work 🙂
Privacy tips
The basics from what I've shared in the slides
TL;DR 🙂
- Check social privacy settings - If you have social accounts, those networks have a lot of information about you, and you might be surprised how much of it is visible to anybody on the Internet by default.
- Evade tracking - When you visit a website, your browser discloses a bunch of stuff about you and your surfing history. Marketers use that information to profile you and target you with ads.
- Don’t use public storages for private information - Oversharing is not limited to social networks. Don’t use online services that are meant for sharing information to store your private data.
- Keep your main e-mail address and phone number private - Your reward for sharing your e-mail address and phone number? Tons of spam in your e-mail inbox and hundreds of robocalls on your phone.
- Use messaging apps with end-to-end encryption - Most modern messaging apps use encryption, but in many cases it’s what they call encryption in transit messages are decrypted on the provider’s side and stored on its servers. Use Signal. Thank me later.