Seven cybersecurity threats that can sneak up on you

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Wired has come up with a useful list of things you should be wary of – as far as cyber security goes, anyway. Some are perhaps obvious, but you may need reminding of others, such as those absurd quizzes you get on Facebook to determine your ‘porn name’ or Hogwarts house, by asking you password-related questions such as your first pet’s name or where you were born. And there are other things; you may not quite realise their importance – for example, it says, “you should be very, very wary of connecting a USB drive to your computer if you’re not absolutely sure where it’s from“. (You may have been wary, but not “very, very” wary.) And some, you may not know. Malicious charging cables? What will they think of next…