protecting your online information

Protecting Your Online Information

It goes without saying that online privacy is a foremost challenging task nowadays.

Millions of internet users have fallen victim to identity theft .

So, Hurry Up ! It’s now time to protect your valuable personal information

1: Exclude your personal information from your

social media profiles

Phone no

Date of birth

Address

2: Check all your privacy settings

Make sure only your friends can see your social

activities

Yes, it is easy to change in the privacy setting

option

3: Choose a lengthy password

Have more than one password for multiple

accounts

Never use these as your password

1234

Birth date

Cellphone no

Home town

Your name

4: Do not share your social security number

Yes, of course there are some exceptions like

Your bank

Credit bureau

with whom you can share it.

5: Keep off the privacy settings of your phone

Disable your GPS Wi-Fi

until you need them…

6: Avoid spam emails

Do not respond to the emails that ask for

your personal info or password

7: Always check for the https://

If you are doing payment online , must

ensure the web address has “s” after the

http which means a secure site

8: Lie to your password security questions

There are some common questions websites often ask in security purpose but there are chances too that someone wants access to

your account.

So, it’s a best choice that you should lie to those security questions and

make sure you remember your lies.

9: Make sure your browser uses an encrypted

connection

It’s a process of encoding information so that the secure proxy will hide all your

browsing session

A web proxy acts as a middleman between you and the web by setting up an encrypted

proxy server on your PC

10: Put a Google alert on your name

A simple way to protect your online identity as you will be notified if someone might be

surfing about you on the web

It works very well, most important it is simple to access and a free method of

monitoring your identity.

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