Sep 19, 2012

15 Most Impotent Internet Safety / Security Tips

Below are the Internet Safety Tips that may help u in keeping safe your info without getting hacked on Facebook or on other internet sites too.
internet safety tips
Tips  1: Don’t click on links or open attachments that look suspicious. If it looks weird or sounds too good to be true, don’t believe it.


Tips  2:  Be careful where you enter your password. Just because a page on the Internet looks like Facebook or another site you use, it doesn’t mean that it is. If you ever have doubts about whether a link is real, simply type the website’s URL (ex: http://www.facebook.com) into your address bar.

Tips  3:  Be suspicious of any email or message that contains an urgent request or asks you to update your information or provide new information. If it sounds off or too good to be true, it probably is. 

Tips  4:  Be suspicious of emails or messages with misspellings or bad grammar, especially if they’re from someone who is usually a good writer.

Tips  5:  Make sure you have an up-to-date web browser (ex: Internet Explorer) armed with an anti-phishing blacklist. Facebook supports:
Tips  6:  Get up-to-date security software on your computer that includes anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, and a firewall.

Tips  7:  Set your operating system (ex: Windows) to update automatically.

Tips  8:  Add security questions to all of your online accounts. This will come in handy if you ever lose access and need to prove who you are.

Tips  9:  Facebook will never ask you for your password except to login in. Never send your password in an instant message or an email.

Tips  10:  Use different passwords for all of your online accounts. If you use the same password everywhere, if that password was ever stolen you could lose access to all of your accounts at once.

Tips  11:  Choose a password only you would know. Don’t pick a word from the dictionary. Try to use a combination of at least eight letters, numbers, and symbols.

Tips  12:  Remember that you choose what you share and with whom you share it. Think before you post or give out information, especially if that information is sensitive or personal.

Tips  13:  Be careful when accessing or sending information over an unsecured public wireless network. Don’t send sensitive information if you can’t verify that a Wi-Fi network is secure, or turn on HTTPS from the Account Settings menu.

Tips  14:  Enable link scanner of your Anti-Virus program.

Tips  15:  Most of the hackers use adult content to attach their phishing link. So be careful in extra when you are visiting any adult site or content.

Be smart to surf on internet.

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