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Cyber Security Awareness Month

These tips are part of a month long effort to distribute useful computer security information to the SLAC community.

Day 2 - Tools, Training, Useful Websites

A great website with several computer security suggestions and hints is the National Cyber Security Alliance "Stay Safe Online" website. Try taking the "How Safe Are You?" Quiz... Have some of your family members take the quiz too! This website has a whole section dedicated to Home Users. Find out what the Top 8 Cyber Security Practices are and make sure you are employing all of them, all of the time. The McAfee SiteAdvisor page has spam and spyware quizzes on the right-hand side: http://www.siteadvisor.com/analysis/ Check out either the "Home Users" or the "IT Professionals" sections of the Symantec website, which ever you feel most comfortable with: http://www.sarc.com Play the "Anti-Phishing Phil" game. A fun way to learn about phishing attacks and how to avoid them: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/  Security analogies are found in this web page. It can help us understand some of the terms which computer security experts use: http://www.securityanalogies.com/index.php/Main_Page Even more suggestions from SANS.org: http://www.siteadvisor.com/ I use this on my main web browsers(IE/Fx) it is the best tool for anyone...especially the average pc user because once installed, it gives a red/green/or yellow mark with complete details to your search engine listing for searches. It tells you before you click on any link what type of sites are connected to that site whether they are malicious or not. Very useful tool, it can be installed on IE, Firefox, and even outlook express client. http://www.trustedsource.org/ Great new site for researching trustworthiness of a suspected malicious site. I don't know if any one site is enough when looking for accurate information, so use these powerful tools along with your knowledge/experience/and don't forget the most powerful tool of them all...GOOGLE:)

Note: While we encourage you to explore new ways to better protect your computer we don't guarantee the suggestions found in these articles will work on all computers.