In India, one out of every three people is affected by cyber attack, but I think it is all three, but the only difference is that that one person knows that he has been hacked. How dangerous is this internet world and in what ways? I had told about the ways in which you can get hacked in the previous Blog, so please watch that Blog first, then you will understand the importance of cyber security. Due to digitization, we are doing everything online, Government Verification, Online Shopping Education. Social Media Business Due to this, we are giving our data to applications knowingly or unknowingly and it has as many advantages as it has disadvantages. We do not know where that data is going, to whom it is going, where it is being leaked and against us. How can it be used? India has the highest number of internet users and India has the highest number of cyber attacks (13.7% in the world) because a common man was told how to use the internet but was not told what cyber security is. What happens is that whenever you do any work on the internet, you leave some information about yourself which is practically permanent, which means you can never erase it completely because it is out of your control. Once it becomes public, Where is it going and where is it being stored? No one knows and we call this information as digital footprint. There are many ways like giving a review of a product, creating an account on a website and shopping online, but even without you knowing, this can happen through Website Cookies and Trackers The greater your digital footprint, the easier it will be to track you and potentially hack you. So if you want your privacy to be in your hands and no one can hack you, then you will have to be cyber aware and watch this Blog completely.
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If you have to see, then let us know some such practices which you should follow to stay as safe as possible online. First of all, create a strong password. I know this is a very silly thing because even today I have to say this, but it is what it is. Don't make your crush your password. You deserve better. Don't use common passwords. A B C D Password 12 23 I Love You. These are very common and get leaked a lot and we all have them. The password should be such that no one can guess it. Get it and you should also remember it easily. Your password should not contain your public information. You have to enter only that which is known only to you. There are two components of password. Complexity means upper case, lower case special characters and digits. Use all these combinations and yes. Length is more important than complexity, so a minimum password of 15 characters should be kept which you can remember and I say that use pass phrases, make sentences, I give some examples, do not use only this on the screen of good passwords and many more. It is very difficult to crack big passwords, even more so than those on complex forms. Keep different passwords on different accounts. Even if you get hacked at one place, you will be safe at the other place if you do not remember. If you have passwords, use password managers like One Pass and wherever you are creating an account, try to reuse the primary authenticator.
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There are many third party sites which provide an option to use your own authentication like biometrics. The most common in smartphones are physical authentication devices like Yab keys, but due to their complexity, the passwords are never going to be completely locked, so be alert. Second is multi factor authentication. At some places, after giving you one factor of authentication, an extra factor is added. Like is one factor to verify you, your password can be another factor Something you own, like your physical device or your smartphone, after entering the first password, you will get another password on your smartphone, like an OTP one time password through SMS or email, then you will have to tell that to the application as a second factor. Whatever you give will be used, after that it will authenticate you, so this is two factor authentication. Even if your password has been leaked or you have forgotten it, then this second factor can save you from getting hacked because your smartphone is with you. If you have your SIM then the OTP that will come will come to you only which you can tell, that is why nowadays hackers use these two factor scams to steal OTP because in very sensitive actions like changing the password for bank accounts or While transferring money, OTP is required as a mandate, to carry out big scams, one has to bypass 2 AA or OTP which is very difficult, so please do yourself a favor and share it today regularly on all your important platforms which you use the most. Yes, enable email accounts google2fa because it is an extra layer of security, it can also be a biometric, your 2fa which is very easy and also fool proof. Yes, I know that it is an additional layer of user interaction, you have to work a little more. You will have to do it every time but it is a bare minimum, it is not a luxury so please take it seriously Third is avoid social engineering Someone has rightly said that humans are the VK link in the security chain so social engineering is such a psychological game Which you will be able to play only if you are smart and conscious. Do not click on any further link in a hurry, out of greed or in panic after reading the title of any email. Read every email carefully. Look at all the things. From address to address center's domain name. The domain name of the link will definitely turn out to be something wrong and it is like professional emails. Don't compare them with them. Think about who could be sending this to you. If it has nothing to do with you then please stay away from it. Ignore it on a genuine website. There is an HTTPS or SSL certificate which is on the ownership of the same domain name. If it is of Let's Crypt or Cloudflare, then they are free. Anyone can take them. Do not let these emotions of greed or panic dominate. Keep working on yourself, keep all your senses open and always doubt the center. Most of such schemes are too good or too bad to be true, so react accordingly. Bank people will never ask you for OTP on call. You will never get UPI. You do not have to enter PAN when you are taking payment. You should know all these basic digital rules. Do not share your OTP with anyone under any circumstances. Do not share information about yourself and your family with anyone unless you You may not know him because online virtually we do not know who is the person in front even if he is representing you as your closed one. Next is use a security software, this is a necessity. Install a good genuine trusted antivirus or firewall software today.
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Thankful you have wss4j on all your devices, so you don't need any other antivirus if you keep it up to date, now there are many antiviruses which provide you with web protection and suspicions, I like it but I recommend that you Install some good browser extensions like NetCraft Ad Blocker Doug Doug Go Privacy Blocker Tracker Malware Bytes These will also protect you from clicking on wrong links and phishing websites or privacy leaking cookies and some websites also have a trust score which is This tells you how much trust you can have on that website, but you should not depend on these tools, they can also be bypassed, so please be smart. Next is limit your privacy. Now go and make your account private, hide your personal posts. Take it and go to each account and check how much you have shared and how much you should have done. Delete everything that you have shared access to and if possible, keep the accounts that you are not using which are vacant. Delete them. There is an option on every site that you can delete your data or deactivate it from there. This will give you the much needed mental detox and your privacy will also be protected. Do not tell anyone more than necessary. Stay in a closed and limited circle, what will happen, people will judge you, you are not cool but it's okay, your privacy is more important, they will also understand but later it will not matter that much for you but it will be for your children, their world is safe and secure. The responsibility of keeping them is in your hands. They have their whole life and you would not want them to travel because of your mistakes. Please, if possible, do not post about your children online. Keep strict limits on their online presence and this Monitor what they are doing on the internet. We have to reduce their and our digital foot print as much as possible. Make this as a conscious decision and backup regularly all your important files. Keep saving them on some other storage media. But make a copy of your important files like your portfolio, documents, ID cards, academic documents. Don't delete them because you have less space.
