The Internet is a wonderful tool but its growing importance in our lives makes protecting your critical data more difficult. Here are some tips to protect what is important to you online:
Security Checkup
Take a few minutes to review and manage your Internet security settings. Make sure that your Antivirus is up-to-date to minimize the risk of any intrusion. Only connect to websites, apps, and devices you can trust and regularly use. If anything looks suspicious, change your settings or password immediately.
Passwords: Strong and regularly modified
Talking about passwords, making your account as difficult to access as possible is your first line of defense. A strong password defeats hackers and keeps your account protected.
Avoid these combinations: “password,” “123456,” your birthdate or any passwords that do not include several character types. Those are way too easy to guess.
To create a complex and secure password, make it unique: a mix of letters, caps or lower case, numbers, and symbols and create one password per website and email account you have.
And most important: keep it a secret. Your password should not be known by anyone else but you.
Add an extra layer of security to your account
Recovery phone numbers, emails or backup codes are your best allies. Websites can use these elements to make sure that the account owner is currently using the account. They can also be used to verify/retrieve/reset your password, as well as sending you potential security alerts.
2-Step Verification
This is the latest and most sophisticated way of protecting your information online. With 2-Step Verification, signing into your account with your password is not enough. A secondary code or password is sent to your phone or you can use a Security Key that you insert into the USB port of your computer.
This ultimate security setting can prevent phishing because stealing your password will not be enough for a hacker to get into your account.
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