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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 481024 |
| Date de publication | 2018-02-14 14:00:00 (vue: 2018-02-14 14:00:00) |
| Titre | Tips To Avoid LOVE-INT On Valentine\'s Day |
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Valentine’s Day; that ever-venerated holiday celebrating human love. On a day festooned with pink hearts, mushy card exchanges, chalky candies and proclamations of undying love both for lovers and classmates alike, one thing most people try to avoid is thinking about their history of romance with people who are no longer in their life. The only problem is that occasionally, those exes don’t necessarily stop thinking about their exes.
Occasionally, abusive exes become a problem and when they do, it helps to take some appropriate steps to protect yourself immediately after a breakup to prevent them from using Open Source INTelligence (OSINT) to spy on you, or otherwise make your life difficult.
Strategy
When deciding how best to avoid OSINT that can be used to harass you in the future, it can help to break up the recorded details of your life into two broad categories; things you can hide/change, and things you can’t/or are difficult to hide or change. For the sake of this post, we will only be dealing with things that we have easy, online or physical control over. As always, it’s best to consult your threat models and apply reasonable measures to avoid whatever threats your particular ex may pose to you.
Scrubbing public profiles is the first, easiest way to ensure that you aren’t sabotaging your own effort to avoid contact. Some simple steps you can take to increase your OPSEC include:
Change all of your account passwords ASAP — If your instincts label someone as dangerous enough to alter publicly available information about yourself, it’s likely that their behavior follows a pattern that existed while you were together with them. Assuming close and personal contact with someone often means that you make exceptions to your threat models that allow them into close personal contact with both you and your devices. Never underestimate the lengths an untrustworthy ex-boyfriend or girlfriend will go to in order to snoop on you, so it’s best at minimum to ensure your passwords are in a controlled state. While you’re doing this, be sure to sign out of all other points of access for any given service.
Revoke private keys and generate new key pairs — Physical access to electronic assets lends itself to theft of sensitive information that you may be holding to protect your communications, such as PGP keys. If you suspect that your keys may have been compromised, it never hurts to revoke and regenerate keys just to be safe. On the subject of keys, re-keying your door locks and changing garage door codes can be a good way of re-establishing your physical security, and reclaiming confidence that your environment is untouched while you’re gone.
Secure crypto-coin wallets — Along with PGP keys, coin wallets are another source of electronic information, meant to be kept private that can easily be compromised by someone who knows what they want, knows where to find it, and has implicit access to the location they are kept. With ever increasing links between electronic and financial security, if one is compromised the other may be as well.
Consider fresh installs of your operating systems and factory-resets of your phone — This may seem a little extreme, but especially good idea if your devices were ever left alone with your formerly-beloved for any amount of time long enough to exploit. A back doored phone or notebook would be a prime, continuing source of love-INT and in this post-FlexiSpy world, where commodity spyware is more accessible than ever to |
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