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Precautionary Measures while using Internet
- Keep your personal information limited and proficient: Fellow Employees and customers don’t need to know your personal information like relationship status and house address etc., They need to know your expertise and how to approach you but that doesn’t mean that you have to hand out personal information.
- Always keep your Privacy settings ON: Information is what the marketers want and so do the hackers. They track your activity on the internet like browsing through cookies and social media usage and the sites you visit. Websites like Facebook have privacy enhancing settings available. However, these settings are difficult to find because the companies want your personal information for its marketing value. So make sure you turn ON privacy settings and keep your personal information safe.
- Learn how to browse safely: Never choose to go to a dangerous neighborhood online. Cyber-criminals use lurid content as bait, never fall for it. They know that most of the people fall for dubious content. If someone carelessly clicks on something, it could expose personal data or it can even infect your system by downloading malwares.
- Make sure your internet is secured and always use a secure VPN Connection: It’s a good idea to start with a strong encryption password as well as a virtual private network. A VPN will encrypt all traffic leaving your devices until it arrives at its destination. Make sure that your home networks are strong enough to resist any cyber-attack from cyber-criminals.
- Always use strong Passwords: It is always recommended to use different passwords for different sites. Use strong passwords by using at least a Case sensitive, number and symbol in the password. Check the strength of your password. Don’t include anything that’s related to your name or mobile number in your password, this makes it hard for the cyber criminals to guess your password.
- Keep your Anti-virus softwares up to date: If you are using an anti-virus software, make sure that the database is being updated regularly. Use parental protection to keep your children safe from cyber-criminals. Updating your Anti-virus software will help detecting malwares and disinfecting your systems.
- Be careful what you Post: It is known that the internet has no delete key. Anything you post will not be removed from the internet, even if you delete it from the particular site, it still remains somewhere on the internet. So be careful before you post something.
- Be careful who you meet Online: Everything you see Online is not true, make sure if you are visiting a genuine site. Be very careful while using social media, you don’t even know who is on the other side. Make sure that the person with whom are texting or sharing content is a genuine person.
- Make Online Purchases only from Secure sites: Online purchases are very dangerous when you are purchasing something from unsecured sites, because during the payment, we usually give out very confidential information like credit card information, CVV, and expiry data. So, it is recommended to make online purchases only on secure sites.
- Be careful with what you download: The main goal of cyber-criminals is to trick you into downloading malwares. Malwares are the programs or apps that carry malware or try steal information. Never download or install any apk file or exe file which you have downloaded from a site you don’t trust in.
- Accounts in Legitimate Websites only: It is recommended to create accounts in only legitimate sites. Think before you create an account. No matter how secure your passwords are, but using them on unprotected and unsafe sites will put your information at stake.
- Log out of sites when you are done suing them: Cookies are created when you log into a site and if the cookies are stolen by hackers or cyber criminals, your account can compromise. This step is very essential if you have an account in a site that contains sensitive information like your bank account or credit card details.
- Be very careful while opening e–mails: Phishing scammers are the people who use fake emails or messages to make you share your personal information with them. Never click on the links sent from an unknown mail address, this will help you prevent downloading malwares and viruses.
By Revant Reddy
This Article is very helpful. It provides us preventive measure that should be taken in order to avoid such kind of crime.
This Article provides us preventive measure that should be taken in order to avoid such kind of crime.
Spot on! Every mitigation way is mentioned in apt detailed.
The article is very informative but it could also include helpline numbers and toll free numbers of authorities issued by the government in case anyone faces any issue or problem like cyber crime , cyber attack .
It is indeed a very informative article, which briefly and thoroughly explains how cyber criminals and hackers could manipulate our data and use it for their own benefit. The article provides a complete set of guidelines with regards to how to efficiently and effectively protect oneself and their bank accounts and identities online.
The article is very informative and suggest us to be protected against the scams. We need to be up to date with the softwares , hardware. We need to stay safe paying online transtaions , need to log out each web page when not in use
Well as in the article of vulnerabilities of online dating , it was clear that virtually no one can be trusted. Thus , this article clearly stated about the measures to be taken into consideration while we use Internet as it has become very risky in today’s world and cyber crime is increasing day by day.
This article is such an explanatory effort and I think such guidelines should be provided to all the users in general. With the ever increasing and easy use of internet, there is such a hoax that is created all around. Therefore one can totally use and learn so much essential information from something as descriptive as this article.
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This article is such an explanatory effort and I think such guidelines should be provided to all the users in general. With the ever increasing and easy use of internet, there is such a hoax that is created all around. Therefore one can totally use and learn so much essential information from something as descriptive as this article.
This article is very useful as it help us to know that how can we protect us from cyber crimes easily
Very much relevant article. The article is telling about one of the best basics and preventive measures at self level while using internet may it be on social media , emails, etc. These measures can even help even a layman with using internet services with much care and awareness at higher stake.
This article seems to be useful for increasing our basic knowledge while using the internet. These are some ways that are must be followed by everyone to ensure cybersecurity of their own.
These are the basics which should be followed by users these will minimize the cyber attacks.
very helpful article on the precautions that one should take while using internet . Turning on privacy settings in sites such as facebook,twitter etc is very crucial as they are the most widely used social platforms and hackers use it all the time to conduct reconaissance(or as we say information gathering i.e. gaining as much information as possble about he victim). Usually people share a lot of information such as phone number , email id , work place, date of birth , pics of their residence with location tags etc which help hackers to perform attack more efficiently on the victims and acquire knowledge they must not know.
I think this article has addressed one of the most important topics which need to be discussed and about which knowledge must be spread.The users of internet and social media is increasing and internet is reaching the rural India,where people are not much aware about the risks of the cyberspace.
Social Media is gaining unprecedented growth and popularity in India.Thus,knowledge and awareness about the the same must be spread rapidly.People must avoid sharing confidential and personal information. People must know about the cyber crimes and consequences of it.
This article is spot on in spreading awareness about the same!Good work!!
Though the cyber police is available to helps the victims of cybercrimes, an individual can take such precautionary measures to avoid being a victim of cybercrime.These small steps if taken by an individual can make a big change and prevent cybercrime from happening. Nice article.
This article is very helpful to those people who are not tech-savy person. They can take all the measures and protect themselves from any kind of cyber crime or scams.
We have dedicated cyber cells but why do we need to approach them we must have to keep us ourselves aware of the precautionary measures while using the Internet. This article is helpful to those who are not tech-savvy and who do not have deep insight into the internet and cyber knowledge in particular. The measures that are given in the article are easy to understand and implement, it will surely help many people to become more vigilant about the online world and precautionary measures that we need to take while using the internet. The article is very relevant in present time as due to the recent pandemic now whole world is working virtually the work from home become new trend for everyone from colleges to office everyone is doing their work online so this is the sine qua non for today’s world.
Well written and good Article
Well done.very useful and easy to implement the precautions
The article was short in my view, information that was given was relevant and good but a lot of improvements can be done and much information can be added. A plenty of information regarding this topic is available and much you may come around by personal experience.
A very informative article.After reading this I came to a conclusion that “There is no limits for precautions more you take lesser it can be”.it is very much essential for us to stay updated in the field of cyber security as if you miss a single update it can be possible that a hacker can take advantage of something that you are assuming or you have not taken precautions for that.