Safe Browsing - Personal Security

We all want to be online at all times to get information, updates on recent activities from the world, interact with our friends on social media, make bank transactions and to have fun!

Well, who says browsing ain't something? Life can be sometimes boring and the only time we get to feel among is to be online.... But have you ever asked yourselves, how safe are you? In times like this of Cyber attacks and cyber theft it is pertinent that we protect ourselves and our data from cyber fraudsters in order not to hand them free pass to information about us that might enable them get access to our credentials. 

But how do we really protect ourselves? - Well personal security is a de facto if you want to be safe online from prying internet eyes. In Nigeria we have heard of "Yahoo Yahoo", right? These are the people you need to protect yourselves from while being online. Your time online can be protected if you do the following:

1. Phishing: this can be pronounced as "fishing". Most of our information can be gotten by just this small act. Just like when you go fishing, this is the same methods cyber fraudsters use in order to get your credentials. Information like bank account details, credit cards password can easily be stolen if you fall for this trap. Phishing in lame man terms is presenting you with same login page of a website to get your login detail which will be use to compromise your data. Imagine when browsing your bank website and you were presented with a login page but this time the presented page is a bait from the attacker. Once you fill out the form, your login details will be stolen and be used for theft. This can be prevented by using Antivirus with phishing attacks prevention as seen in Protecting Yourself, data, identity From Cyberattacks! Also when doing online transaction always make sure the "URL" that is the address of the webpage presented has "https://", "S" means it is secured unlike the conventional "http://".

2. Use A Strong Password: Using a strong password in your online accounts in order to prevent it from being compromised. Your password can be gotten from a vulnerable server system  housing your account. But what determines your being compromised is how easy it is to guess your password. What attackers do is to use a tool with different wordlist to match your password hatch. So the stronger your password the more difficult it is for an attacker to compromise it.

To be continued.....