Tips To Stay Safe Online
October 9, 2021
TOP 7 TIPS TO HELP YOU STAY SAFE ONLINE
- First of all, turn on 2 Factor Authentication on all of your accounts. Especially the important ones such as email, bank, and all social media. This adds another layer and more taking longer for you to logging in but makes it much harder for others to hack your account. This way, even if your password is compromised, your account should still be safe as other people don’t have the secondary method of logging in such as a code generator or your phone.
- ALWAYS have at least one backup of critical data. Many people got hit with an encryption virus that immediately targeted their computer. Had it not been for the regularly performed backups they would have lost years worth of data files.
- Another important thing you can do to considerably mitigate the risk of your accounts being compromised is: To avoid reusing the same password. Every site and account you create should have a unique, strong password that only you know. Use a password manager software if you need to.
- Keep Bluetooth turned off on your phone. There are several Bluetooth-based attacks happening these days, so keeping it turned off when you’re in a public place and not using it anyway is really the way to go.
- Stay away from and donāt download any shady phone Apps. Donāt give the apps access to things that they donāt need. For example, a gaming app shouldnāt need access to your contacts, otherwise delete such an app right away.
- Delete accounts you no longer use or haven’t used in a while. Don’t just sign up for web sites for features/services you don’t plan on using for the long term. Perhaps have a separate burner email account just for those occasions where you have to provide an email address.
- Make sure the public wifi-network you are connecting to is a real and safe one, some guys with a laptop and a good enough cyber-security skills can create a fake network with the same name and when you log onto the fake one and then they can steal your personal info.