Are you secured? If you are reading this now from a public PC, its obvious that you are not. At certain circumstances, even from your personal home PC, its not that save as you think. Following tips are basic yet effective to prevent your self from any security or privacy threat.
Cookies, Browsing History & Cache - This is a very common option available on all browsers today. If you are using Safari, you would have even came across an option to go in full privacy mood. That option basically would not let the browser to save any sort of memory on what you just did on the net. Which is very good if you are on bank sites and so on. If your browser does not have a safe mood option, consider deleting your informations from your browsers.
Do not leave any ID numbers on system - This is common whereby most people would have written all their user name and passwords of various application in a notepad/text document and saved it somewhere in their system. This is theoretically not save. You are leaving your information to vulnerable threats as anyone would have an easy access to it. A solution for this may be a passkey manager. But if you have accidently lost your PC, you would be in deep trouble. I would rather leave you to consider by placing all your information in a password protected folder in a backup hard disk.
Never exchange confidential material ignorantly - If you are using instant messengers or emails to exchange highly confidential materials, you would need to reconsider again. Its not because email systems are insecure but you are never sure on who would be reading your materials. There might be people surrounding your recipients and a single glimpse may be enough to have you in a potential security threat. Do make a call and reassure that the recipient is alone when reading such materials.
Do not reveal everything - Do not reveal every single detail about your self in a social profile. Social media is great! but you should know the difference between social material and private material. Apply common sense to this statement. For example, it’s highly insecure to give your personal bank number or residential address in a social profile. Of course you knew that! Im just reassuring my point here.
At times, regardless our effort to increase our safety, things may happen. We are of course not 100% secured on the internet. We might be even be indirectly vulnerable to a security threat via a malware probably. The point is, we should at least try our best to keep ourselves secured at all times. Efforts do pay off. So do you have an extra tip?
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