10 tips to stop hacker ruining your life

Can you imagine how awful when your Facebook, Blog, Email or bank account get hacked? Once they are being hacked by hackers, your life can be ruined like forever? Can you imagine that?

Once all the social media accounts get hacked, you will encounter bad consequences such as your money got stolen, personal details hijacked and so on.

Therefore, we are here to provide you the tips to avoid being hacked and you can stay safety in the cyber world.

• Use different password

Every single account of your social media should have a different password. Never ever have the same password for an insecure site like Facebook and something that is important like your online banking account as it is very easy for hacker to track the password and hack into the account.

• Use complex passwords

A strong password should be a mixture of upper and lower case letter, numbers and symbols. If your password does not contains all these elements, I’m so sorry to say that your password can be easily hacked!! Remember!!! Never ever use name, birthday or information about someone or something around you.

• Complex usernames

I bet 95% of you have your email address or name as your username right? Reason? “Because it is easy for me to remember” Gotcha!!! Tell you what you should make your username as complex as your passwords. Many Word Press, blogs are set up with the default username of “admin”, so hackers are already 50% of the way there to hack into your account and ruin your life!!!! So, you really have to change your username into something really complex and unrelated.

• Updated anti-virus and anti-malware software

You need to have at least one or two updated of the latest version anti-virus and anti-malware programs. There are free ones like AVG or the paid ones like Norton. There is another recommended software is Malwarebytes which helps to scan things that anti-virus programs might have missed. Remember get one for your laptop or desktop and update it automatically for safety.

• Latest Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari version

Don’t just ignore the update request from your browser. Do it right away! Some of those updates are for security reasons. In fact, keep up-to-date as to which is the most secure browser and just use that.

• Use Facebook and Email securely with the right URL

Go log in to Facebook. Go on, do it now!!! Now, does the URL say “http://” or “https://”?

If it is the first one, ooppsss!!! You are not in a secure session. But, don’t worry. We are here to help remember? Ok! Now, go in to your settings and make sure it always uses https:// and whenever you log into and website, please make sure, 100% sure you type the “s” if you are logging in.

• Don’t use public free Wi-Fi

What?!!!! Are you kidding me? Nope! This is no joke! You know when you go to a café and log on to the free network? Well, take a look at how easy it is for people to steal your social network passwords using just a simple Firefox plugin. I know it’s really sad that this type of stuff exists, but they do exist. So try your best not to use them!

• Make your security questions tough

You know, those kind of security question like “what is your mother’s maiden name?” Well, make the answer complex. If you ever get hacked, you need this information to re-gain access to the account. Im sure you don’t want a hacker to change this. Please imagine how ruined your life can be if the hacker has figured out the password and gained access into your account?

• Monitor your logged on location

How to monitor? Go down to your Gmail account, you will see a little line of text that says “Last account activity”. This will show you where your account has been last accessed from. So, if you suspect something that is not right you should be alert and keep an eye on this and do remember record down the unfamiliar IP address.

• Don’t click links in Emails

As a general rule, most banks and financial institutions don’t send you Email with links. Don’t ever click any such Email links if you get it. If you are genuinely think it is from your bank, just give them a call for confirmation.


Source: http://www.blogtyrant.com/facebook-email-security-hackers/

Written By:

Chan Hui Xin

Bachelor of Public Relations (Honours)

Tunku Abdul Rahman University College