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Four things that will do more for your security than any purchase: being able to read a phishing message, understanding what ransomware actually does, not reusing passwords, and having a backup you have tested. None of these pages carry commercial links.

How to read a phishing message

The five signals, in the order you can check them — display name against domain, the greeting, the manufactured deadline, the link destination, the footer. Plus what to do if you already clicked.

Ransomware: what actually helps

The five stages of an incident, which defence acts at each one, and why the only thing that works at the end is a copy the malware could not reach.

Passwords that survive a breach

Why reuse is the expensive habit, what a vault changes, how to choose a master passphrase, and which form of two-factor authentication to pick.

Backups done properly

The 3-2-1 rule, why sync is not backup, how much space you actually need, and the restore test almost nobody runs.

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