{"id":51480,"date":"2015-07-29T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=51480"},"modified":"2015-07-29T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:37:24","slug":"experts-share-top-5-pc-security-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/experts-share-top-5-pc-security-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Share Top 5 PC Security Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">Google asked 231 security experts for their top tips.&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<h4>Experts Share Top 5 PC Security Tips<\/h4>\n<p>by Fox Van Allen for Techlicious<\/p>\n<p>What special steps do you take to stay safe online? Are you the type to obsess over your password\u2019s strength, or do you just use the same password for every site? Do you limit your browsing to familiar sites to avoid viruses, or do you venture into all corners of the net? More importantly, which of these steps are the most important ones to focus on?<\/p>\n<p>This week, a research group at <a href=\"http:\/\/googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/new-research-comparing-how-security.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google released a paper on computer security<\/a> that looks at the specific safety priorities of computer security experts. In it, Google\u2019s scientists talked to 231 security experts and 294 ordinary web users, obtaining three practices from each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beutler_Google_Security-practices-v6.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beutler_Google_Security-practices-v6.png\" alt=\"Beutler_Google_Security-practices-v6\" width=\"400\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beutler_Google_Security-practices-v6.png 400w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beutler_Google_Security-practices-v6-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techlicious.com\/blog\/google-computer-security-expert-internet-safety-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/conference\/soups2015\/soups15-paper-ion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Full Google paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google asked 231 security experts for their top tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":51488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[1303],"class_list":["post-51480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techlicious","tag-pc-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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