Welcome to HakProof.com. This site is my attempt to reach out beyond the physical classroom to the community at large to help each of you increase your personal SQ or Security Quotient. Today was my fifth visit to WHTC 1450 AM radio station in Holland Michigan to be a guest on the daily show, Talk of the Town.
Click on Link to access the Podcast, of my time on today’s show:
http://whtc.com/podcasts/talk-of-the-town-today/99/cyber-security-expert-james-allen-oct-12/
I promised the listeners to provide an outline of what we talked about today. Hopefully, you will also find the information beneficial.
- Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach:
- https://haveibeenpwned.com/
(Does not cover all data breaches.)
- https://haveibeenpwned.com/
- For Yahoo email users wanting to move their email to a new, more secure, service:
- Good services to move to:
- Since Yahoo has decided to block email forwarding, you are left with fewer option to let people know your email address has changed.
- One way is to email everyone in your address book letting them know of the change.
- Another is to set Yahoo’s automatic out-of-Office/Vacation reply notifying anyone who emails you that your email address has changed.
- http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtip1/qt/How_to_Set_Up_a_Vacation_Auto_Reply_in_Yahoo_Mail.htm
- The problem with the last method is that services that you have signed up for will not be able to respond to your reply notice. You will need to go to each site and change the email address used to access the site or newsletter.
Until next month… (November 30, 9:30am)