40 13 - 26 November 2019
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t’s becoming increasingly
difficult to maintain your
privacy online, however hard
you try or whatever powerful
protections you have in place.
Nobody willingly surrenders their
email address and password to a
data breach, for example, but the
frequency and scale of website
hacks means it’s almost
impossible to avoid getting
caught in one.
Fortunately, there are steps
you can take to identify when,
where and how your personalinformation has been –oris likely
to be – compromised,soyoucan
plug the leaks before it’stoolate.
In this feature, we revealthebest
tools for detecting hiddenholes
in your online privacy,andexplain
how you can fix and preventthese
vulnerabilities.
We also reveal the shocking
truth of just how muchyour
personal data is actually
worth to the criminalswho
are trying to steal it (spoiler
alert – it’s nowhere nearas
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