Cybersecurity tips for the mildly paranoidWhen you get a new phone or computer or install a new system, set it up to automatically update with security patches. Here's a list of nine things everyone should be doing already to keep their information relatively confidential, plus four more for the truly paranoid. The CIA documents describe programs that can search through emails, contacts, texts and photos and send them from your device without your knowing it. Hackers, and presumably the CIA, are good at creating realistic-looking emails that entice you to click on dangerous links. INSTALL A MODERN OPERATING SYSTEMMany of the vulnerabilities detailed in the WikiLeaks documents are older and target dated systems.

Source: Stuff March 12, 2017 21:00 UTC