Computer "10" List
Ten things any computer user should be able to do without looking them up. Nothing exotic is on the list, which is the point, because the gaps in it are where most compromises start
Topic
Authentication
A collection of 16 issues
6 Easy Cyber Security Steps
The attacks that actually reach ordinary people are not clever. They are a password reused on a site that got breached, and a text message someone else received. Six habits that close the common paths.
Password Managers
Recycling one password across accounts means a single breach opens all of them. A manager trades that problem for one very good master key — a real trade, and worth understanding before you make it.
Password Cards
A password you carry in your wallet, written down in plain sight, and still useless to whoever picks it up. The card is random; the route you take through it is the part you memorize.
Signal Messenger Settings
Signal out of the box is good, not hardened. The gap is a short list of settings, starting with the one that stops someone porting your number and walking off with your account.
Multi-Factor Authentication
A leaked password stops being an emergency the moment something else stands behind it. The real decision is whether that second factor lives on the phone in your pocket or on a key next to it.