How to be cyber safe: Use your brain and tools – in your home, in your job, at university or wherever else you go.
1) Check Thoroughly
Find out if you have—for instance—previously been a part of a data leakage situation. Cyber security threats are continuously on the rise so it is important you do not start making moves to counter them before checking whether you have been a victim of a cyber-attack or not. Wait a minute… What is this and where did it come from! My data has been leaked! What should I do? The first thing to do is, of course, don’t panic. It will depend on the kind of the breach but it may warrant early action. This means that, if it just an unimportant account username and password that has been compromised that easily, then possibly, that is a low-level concern. If your phone number leaks, then you have to learn being more careful of the scams – be careful of any calls and text messages from any number (or numbers you may deem as ‘safe’). Immediate action should be taken for the account by changing the password of the said account. If you are reusing this password, or similar password in other accounts, ensure to change them also.
And if changing the password makes you get a sign out option on all the other devices where the account logged in, answer yes.
2) Strength Of the Passwords
When choosing a password, remember: the more extended it is the more compact it is. Ideally the password to a given account should be 14 characters and more and should not be guessed easily. Or improve on your cyber security measures with a phrase. One way to create a phrase that will be long and yet easy to remember is to simply create a sentence – which becomes your passphrase. A phrase like “RabbitCheesePencil#3Outlook” is much easier to recall and is more powerful than “D3nt@o9e” – simply substitute the “Outlook” bit with whatever account you’re trying to access.
3) Use A Password Manager
Tired of attempting to recall all of the passwords, or even attempting to change these passwords as soon as you log in? Select a password manager to securely store passwords and have a password generated for you. They are very beneficial since the user is only required to memorize one master password after creating them. A password manager will come in handy to develop good and diverse passwords needed for work accounts and personal ones. A PM also safely keeps them within its system which also inputs them in websites as you log in.
4) Be Careful with The Links You Click
Every day you receive a phishing email. Phishing, as stated by LinkedIn is the biggest threat to modern businesses in 2022 and that comes as no surprise. The gangs use phishing emails to threaten to lock you and your computer or other devises out of your accounts and demand money, get personal details and or passwords from you, and lots of other things like identity theft, opening new accounts in your name they will access due to the stolen information.
5) Apply Multi Factor Authentication
It is effective to apply multi-factor authentication. To expand the protection degree one more time, it is possible to use multi-factor authentication. Preventing identity theft in websites, it is also called two factor authentication, MFA and 2FA, which secures the latter as you. Sure, there are myriads of methods in which one may be required to show ID, but the key tool is your phone. You perhaps may log into your bank software then be asked to enter pin. Or receive a prompt to approve the use of an MFA app like Microsoft Authenticator when they are logging into your work inbox.
Sum Up!
What you can do to assist by practicing the 5 helpful tips in a way, preventing cybercrime is everyone’s concern. It may be important to think of it as an obligation just like everyone has the responsibility to fight cyber criminals.
For many people, it’s a few very simple & smart steps to keep your family & yourself safe. Overall, it means that reporting cybercrimes to relevant officials or criminal defense professional at the appropriate time is good to get the better results.
It’s about you’re helping to fight cybercrime!
