Ways to Protect your Digital Life

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Introduction

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With technology evolving and advancing every year, the need to secure our digital lives from cyber attack becomes very important as most of us spend part of our lives online in the digital world.

Virtually all we do this days basically evolves around the Internet, like checking out the news, social media, playing games, doing research etc.

Our online accounts are constantly always under threat by cyber hackers that's why we need to always stay above it by making sure our digital life is always safe

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Follow these Ways to protect yourself

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• Use Secure Password

Using a strong and secured password is the first step ensure our data are not compromised. We should avoid using simple passwords like our date of birth, pet name, or name of someone close to us.

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To ensure your online account like Gmail, Facebook or any another , we should make use of a 12 characters password or more which should includes Upper case, lower case alphabets, numbers and symbols. You can also change your password from time to time, if you feel it has been compromised

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• Two Factor Authentication for email

This feature acts like a second layer of security protection. The 2Fa has its fondly called protects our account. In the case where our account is accessed from another device, we get a form of text to confirm if the login was initiated by you.

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We can also use this feature to protect some of our social media accounts.

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• Enable Encryption

Even though social media site like whatsapp says "our chats and calls are secured with end to end encryption", will all know Facebook who owns Whatsapp, shares personal information to third parties, leaving our chats at risk. Also considering the recent Facebook data breach issue, Facebook and WhatsApp are not to be trusted.

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You can consider using Signal, an android and iPhone app that enables encryption of our chats, messages and calls.

Enabling encryption, makes your data difficult to understand by hackers, as it scrambled. It can only be deciphered, if hackers get hold of your keys.

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• Back up your Data

In the addition to encrypting your information or data, it's also necessary to have backups as hackers are devising malwares to unencrypt almost everything. So it's important to have backup files in the case of eventualities.

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Data breaches are common and can be quite costly to get back from these hackers. That why we need to back up our data, in the case of data loss. All you simply do is simply recover your data from your hard drive or cloud storage where you have it stored.

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• Avoid clicking unfamiliar link, files and websites

Everyday, we encounter various links, files in our mails, whatsapp and messengers. We should always avoid clicking any link we are not familiar with, especially if the link is not secured(https). Avoid http link. As hackers could you use it to get to us

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There was a global ransomeware attack in June 2017, where hackers sent a malware file and hacked several number of companies. The affected companies needed to buy a key to get control as the malware affected several of it's computer. Read more

We can also make use of the browser plug-in called https everywhere, this plug in, ensures you're using the right and secure form of website. Using it prevent any form of hacking or surveillance.

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• Put your Webcam Undercover

We can also try close our Webcam with tapes when not in use. It could protect you from been spied upon. If someone has found a way through to computer, they cannot spy on you using the Webcam.

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Several people adopts this method, including Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, as it a crucial step and everyone should adopt.

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Conclusion

Our digital lives should not be taken for granted, also if you're fan of cryptocurrency you should also not fail to consider using this methods as hackers also target this set of people. Protect your digital life today

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References

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Thanks for Reading

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