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Stay Safe Online –
Improve Your Internet Habits Today
What do your online habits say about you? Here are four ways to make your online experience and legacy safer.
- Two factor authentication
It’s important to set up extra protection for your online accounts. Most online services offer two-step verification or two-factor authentication.
Two-step verification lessens the likelihood of someone else signing into your accounts. It uses two different forms of identity: your password firstly, and a contact method is asked for after that.
- Check your browsing and following
Everywhere you go online leaves a trail of cookies, location data and impressions on social media. Realise that nothing you do can be considered invisible. Incognito is barely incognito at all!
Following brands on social media means you’ll also get exposed to more marketing than you expected. Remember, information about your social activity gets purchased by companies you’re probably not aware of.
- Basic security measures should not be ignored
Passwords and updates and logging out are probably the most common things people get wrong online. Many people have a list of old favourite passwords they come back to over and over again. This can cause trouble if one site gets compromised, because it can open up your entire digital life to evil. Microsoft suggests you change your passwords every couple of months to be safe. Perhaps use a password manager to remember them all.
- Clean out your old photos occasionally. It’s basic housekeeping.
Clean out your old photos from your online galleries and your mobile devices every so often to free up space and minimise exposure if your phone gets stolen. You can always back up these files to an online cloud service if you run out of storage, such as Dropbox or Google Drive or Result IT.
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