This period where literarily all we do is online, we have to take safety precautions to make sure all transactions and activities are safe from the source to the destination. There are guys hovering around to sneak in and make changes to information sent thereby undermining the positivity of technology.
Our security online lies in our hands.
•Be mindful of the kind of websites you visit
•When you sign-in to any website and get a pop-up asking to save password, please it’s safer not to save passwords especially when on a public device or computer because someone that shares the device with you can access the saved passwords.
•Be aware of pop-ups when you open up a webpage, that prompts you to click(probably to win something)... This is not real, they are all scam. No sane person will just tell you to click and win especially in this our dry and difficult economy.
•Remember to sign-out your emails opened on a public device or computer immediately you are done to avoid unwanted visitors.
•Use strong passwords (letters mixed with numbers and symbols like *#+.. recommended with minimum of 8 characters) when signing-up to a website.
•Most people right now make conference calls via Zoom, Google meet, Skype and some other platforms. Please check the settings of the application you are using to confirm all firewalls and authentications are activated so you won’t have a ghost guest in your conference.
Please any suspicious emails or posts on any platform should be ignored..
Hackers are struggling to survive.. so please Remain safe and smart
I am
Chuka Onwe, an IT personnel
(Network administrator and Security analyst).
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