In this post, I will tackle about how you will make yourself secure online. Securing yourself online is not a paranoid thing, there are a lot of hacking that has been recorded during the last year just to get some business and personal information. This sounds like not a concern for us individual who is not engaged in a big time business or a celebrity, but there is a thing called "Identity Theft". This is no simple thing, hackers go in your computer, steal your personal information, and sell it to some companies who will use your information, mostly, those dating sites.Just take time to read this and carefully follow:
1) Set up secure password and use different password in every website you where you will register.
Establish a password that is not connected in your life, or much better compose a password that is made up of letters, special character, numbers, and some capital letters. With this hackers will have a hard time decrypting what will be your password. But make sure that you will memorize your password.
Also make a different password for every website you will register (i.e. social media, email) it is simply because when you have the same password with all the accounts that you have, once they figure it out, they will occupy all of your accounts.
2) Be careful of Phishing Sites
Some of you are not aware of phishing site, phishing is the act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity like a website. So be careful in where you will put your usernames and password, if you are going to log in in facebook, email instagram, etc. always check the address bar, if the address is not correct, immediately get out of that site and put the correct address.
3) Beware of Emails Offering Gifts
There are a lot of emails that is rounding all over the internet, saying that you have win something, blah blah blah, don't take time on clicking it, instead delete it, it is a simple way of exposing yourself to the hacker making him steal something from you.
4) Install Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware
This is the most easy way in securing yourself, but most of us ignore this thing. Hackers tend to enter our computer through the files that we are downloading from the web, so if you don't have a anti-virus or a anti-malware, they can be easily run around your system and get all the things or destroy everything in your computer.
5) Separate Personal Email to Email That You Use in Registering Online
Always make a separate email for your personal matters (chat, business) in emails that you use in registering online, in this set up, you will avoid spam mails that will fill your inbox and much secure for some vulnerability attacks.
That's all of the things that I can teach for those who are not geeky specially in technology and internet, better be secure than sorry, they are just all easy things to do, cause being a victim of a hacker and identity theft is not a small matter, it will change your life forever once something wrong happen.
