In my car, I spend quite some time listening to podcasts. On the topic of security, the podcasts
Security Now and the Dutch podcast "
De beveiligingsupdate" are my favourites.
Driven by the suggestions in these podcasts, I have taken a few extra measures to secure my laptop:
- Replace the ever leaky Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader with the Foxit reader.
- Set the Security level in Microsoft Internet Explorer to High for every zone. Even when using another browser, IE is used in MS-Office applications.
- Installed the NoScript plug-in in Firefox. NoScript allows to selectively allow the exe
cution of Javascript. Only for a few sites I have allowed Java script permanently. For most sites, I only allow Javascript temporarily. It offers some extra defense against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).
Disabling Javascript also helps with privacy: it reduces the amount of information exposed for
browser fingerprinting. More Firefox add-ons for safer surfing are available
here. Next one I'll try is
Better Privacy to automatically remove
Flash cookies.
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