Category: Web Security

Social Media and Home Protection: 3 Tips to Stay Safe While Sharing

Social Media and Home Protection: 3 Tips to Stay Safe While Sharing by David Cohen.  Available from <http://www.adweek.com/digital/james-jorner-effective-inbound-marketing-guest-post-social-media-and-home-protection/> [May 27, 2017]

Daily social media activities can expose us to another more displeasing world of stalkers, burglars and other nefarious people. To stay safe, we’ll need to be more vigilant about what we share and how we share it.

From ideas, thoughts, inspirational messages and photos, right to the short pieces that we caption “#NoteToSelf,” we like to share everything on social media. And it’s funny because the more we seem to be sharing on social media, the less we seem to do so in real life.

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Top 9 tips to secure your website from hackers

Top 9 tips to secure your website from hackers by Fabrizio Moreira.  Available from <http://www.businesszone.co.uk/community/blogs/fabriziomoreira/top-9-tips-to-secure-your-website-from-hackers> [May 04, 2017]

From credit card information to email id to phone number to SSN, online users are constantly sharing their confidential data on different websites over the web. No wonder, they would seek for optimum protection at these virtual outlets.

Your website is your first point of contact with your audience and if your platform shows any security anomaly, they won’t think twice to shift to the rival sites. In fact, website safety issue is one of the major security risks reported by small businesses  in the modern digital world and one has to be really particular in this regard.

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Eight Tips for Secure Online Privacy

Eight Tips for Secure Online Privacy by TODD DRAKE Founder, ManageUrID.  Available from <http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/24/eight-tips-for-secure-online-privacy/> [1:34 PM 04/24/2017]

In these days of mobile Internet, ubiquitous Facebook and social access, it’s easy to forget that the information you put online is generally visible to pretty much anyone. You may trust your friends, but you never know who is actually watching. Too many people forget that privacy online is a huge concern and that the things they post can open the door to predators, both online and off. The best protection is removing yourself from Internet tracking sites with a service like ManageYOURiD. If you do not have such a service, you need to take many precautions. Start with these these eight steps:

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Follow These 6 Crucial Tips to Stay Safe from Virus and Malware

Follow These 6 Crucial Tips to Stay Safe from Virus and Malware.  Available from <http://www.guidingtech.com/65188/protect-pc-virus-malware/> 

Having an anti-virus software installed on your PC is a great way to keep it secure but at times infected files are able to surpass that security layering and enter your database undetected.

Some people run their PC with anti-virus software and still manage to get a virus on their systems, while some others do not use an anti-virus suite at all and still manage to stay safe.

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Top 5 cyber security tips for internet savvy users

Top 5 cyber security tips for internet savvy users by Anas Baig.  Available from <https://www.geektime.com/2017/03/03/top-5-cyber-security-tips-for-internet-savvy-users/> [March 03, 2017]

More and more people are gaining access to the internet with every passing day. This increase in the digital crowd also means that hackers and malicious individuals now have a bigger target to aim for.

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