On the occasion of today's Safer Internet Day, it remains particularly important not to forget the security issue when we are online on a daily basis, especially in social networking services.
While the technology συνεχίζει να διεισδύει στην καθημερινότητά μας, υπάρχουν settings and security features that can be used to ensure that the information and the digital identity of each is found under control.
Social networking
The driving force of the Internet today is interaction on social media. At the same time, friends are "uploading" ideas for wedding parties at Pinterest, "Upload" photos from their morning coffee on Instagram, promote their favorite outfits on snap chat, check in at foursquare when in restaurants they upload videos to wine their cats, share photos of their newborn babies in Facebook and they are tart hoping to learn news for the premiere of The Walking Dead series.
As these services become more and more popular, they are becoming more common fraud targets, spam and phishing.
Meet your settings
Symantec Security Response advises social media users to familiarize themselves with the privacy settings and security services offered by each social media and applications.
- Public or private? By default, many of these services encourage users to share their updates publicly. Many offer privacy as a universal set-up, enabling you to make your profile public or private, while several offer more options, allowing users to create individual posts to all or to specific users. Check out these settings before posting on these Media.
- Strong Password and reuse of them Password. Make a strong password for any social media and do not reuse the codes in different social media.
- If available, create two identifiers. Some services like Facebook and Twitter offer two types of authentication as one additional security measure for your account. Usually, to log in you need to provide a password, which is something that you know. Using double identification, you also enter something you already own, usually in the form of a random number or a token, which is sent to your phone via SMS or through a number creation application. In this way, if your code has been revealed, the thief will need the second identification key to connect.
Meet your enemy
The biggest enemies of the majority of social media users and applications are spammers and scammers who want to infiltrate social networking accounts in order to penetrate spam, persuading users to complete surveys or install applications.
- Free stuff is never free. Many scammers will try to lure users with the idea they can win free gadgets or gift cards if they complete a survey, install an application, or share a post on their social network. It's not so simple, and those who go ahead can also give their personal information.
- You want more followers and likes; There is always a price that someone has to pay when trying to get more followers and likes. Whether it's paying money to acquire virtual followers and likes with or with the voluntary provision of your account credential to become a member of a "social" botnet. Definitely these tricks they don't deserve it.
- Topical issues become the target of abusive behavior. Whether they are relevant sports events or pop stars, either to death celebrities, either on popular TV series or the series finale, or new gadget announcements, scammers and spammers know what's most popular and will find a way to infiltrate an online conversation and trick users. This fact is unavoidable, so think twice before clicking on links.
- This photo or video comes from you; These kinds of scammers want your password and will try to persuade you to give it to them without your knowledge. This is phishing. If you click on the link and it sends you to a web page that looks like a login page to a social network, do not enter your passwords right away. Check the address on the bar so that it is not a long URL that simply contains the word Twitter or Facebook. Open a new browser tab and enter… twitter.com or facebook.com to see if you are still logged in. The most common is to still be…
Understand that as long as new social services and their applications become more and more popular and mainstream, fraudsters and spammers are not far behind in their exploitation efforts.
Understanding the privacy settings and additional security features offered by these networks is one step closer to a safer internet browsing.
Additionally, if you know who cares about your information and ways to trick you into providing information, you'll be able to make the best decisions about what links to click, which posts to share, and what's safe to you type your password.
Source: e-pcmag.gr
