The Secret is Out!

Who does not love a good secret? Being in on a secret is exciting! You know something that someone else does not know; you are instantly special and separated from the pack. Congratulations! But what if that secret is crap? A false façade someone has put up to cover up the truth or to mislead you to think differently about the person or situation.

Deception is real and happens every day. Everywhere you look there is deception being played out.

The guy sitting next to you right now, is that his real hair color? Are your neighbors really happily married? Did we really land on the moon? Is global warming real? Did Al Gore really invent the Internet? Is the dress black and blue or white and gold? What should I believe is the truth?

Defending against the Man in the Middle

I remember as a child trying to eavesdrop on conversations I would hear in school. They usually were centered around who kissed whom or who had a crush on someone. As an adult, like most others, I still listen in on other people’s conversations from time-to-time. Usually this happens when you’re standing in line somewhere, and it is hard to not listen in on the people next to you. After talking with a colleague over the weekend about man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, I found some similarities to the more typical activity of eavesdropping on others conversations.

Top 5 Solutions to Stop Hackers

And when I say hackers, I want to be clear. I mean the security crackers that break into your account to steal your information, max out your credit card, and wreak havoc on your computer or device! This is not how you intended things to end when you chose that password that you could remember or ignored Gmail’s new second factor feature. But, now it is too late. Unless you have a Tardis, you are not changing the fact that your email or other personal accounts have been compromised.