Due to Covid 19 pandemic, many of us are strictly keeping indoors to protect ourselves and our family safe. And the decision of staying inside is shifting their shopping interests to online media. Most are spending time online to shop & take financial decisions. However, even before you add items to your cart, it’s important to keep your digital safety on your fingertips.
Here are the top 3 safe online habits which you must consider to keep you accounts, money & data protected.
- Avoid accessing public WiFi
Whenever you’re in a public place, try not using public wifi. Initially, it may seem like an amazing idea but susceptible one ( full of risks). Public networks are in great risk to abuse and hacking to avoid misuse of all personal data like browsing history, emails and your passwords.
Even if you use public wifi, avoid sharing credit card details and personal information. So, make all online payments from your home internet connection.
- Watch out for sham emails
We’ve been witnessing lately that email scams are becoming more and more common. And they are packaged in a manner where they are difficult to muddle through. This calls for extra vigilance while checking your inbox. Whenever you receive a fishy email from an unknown address, consider it to be a sham!
Strictly, do not click on any suspicious links sent through emails as they could erode your system information. Immediately delete the email and connect with your suggestive friend to inform them about potential hacking.
- Keep changing your password
Time & again we witness people using obvious or weak passwords to aid easy recall memory. This majorly helps hackers to steal information in just no time. To ensure you put strong passwords and follow safe online shopping habits, follow the below:
- Avoid repeating your passwords, across all accounts. This gets easier to hack & retrieve data.
- Using a semi-long phrase to make it more difficult to guess.
- Use an online password manager to get unique, strong password ideas everytime you login
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