Keep Your Personal Information Safe From Hackers
After using a strong password, it is also important to keep it and other confidential information safe. The followings are some methods to keep confidential information safe from hackers.
- Be sure about who you are giving your personal or financial information. Donβt give out personal information on the phone, through the mail, or over the Internet unless youβve initiated the contact or know who youβre dealing with.
- Before you dispose of your old computer or mobile phone, get rid of all the personal information stored therein. Use a Wipe utility program known as Hard Disk Eraser to overwrite the entire hard drive.
- Install and use Anti-Spyware Program to protect against Userβs Activity Monitoring and Identity Theft i.e.: passwords and other sensitive data.
- Protect yourself from Phishing; do not click links or download files sent from unknown persons. You need to also observe links (get rid of the link URL thoroughly) or files (get rid of file names thoroughly)
- Click to download from the internet requires intelligence and patience because the link or file could be harmful or the link may contain persuasive but a fraudulent link requesting sensitive information that may lead to financial loss.
- Keep your passwords strong and private by storing them in an encrypted storage device i.e. BitLocker. Do not save your confidential information online (i.e. Email, browser, mobile application, password manager, etc.), and be sure to whom you are giving your personal or financial information online.
Complete protection, according to the above information and regular protection updates by checking, applying the latest protection updates, and repeating the same protection periodically; i.e monthly is recommended. You also need to observe links or files thoroughly before clicking or downloading them, a file could be a harmful file or the link could be a fraudulent link requesting your information that may lead to financial loss.