This post will support my previous post on Hacking , I’d recommend you check it out first and then read this to get a better understanding of what I’m trying to explain.
Hey readers! This is something that I’ve been asked a few times and I thought it would be great to explain, how you could protect yourself online or basically things you should and shouldn’t do when you are connected to the network.
Let’s get to it!
Internet, I’m crazy about it and honestly speaking, we all are but, is it as secure as we think it is? If you did read the hacking post mentioned above then you’d know how easy it is for someone to track our data.
The government is already tracking it. Everything that we download or upload passes through their network as they act as the gateway between the transfer of data at the intercontinental level and there’s nothing we can do about it. Luckily since the amount of data transferred today is so huge that it’s hard for them to keep track but, we also have genius cyber security professionals who have this task automated and track the data for things that they think is against the rules or basically “illegal”.
If you don’t already know, the download of Torrents has been totally banned in a few countries and if you do download it, you get warning mails from the officials. I will be posting about Torrents in a later post but for now let’s get to the topic.
The Don’ts of the Internet
I’ll try my best to include everything I remember and if I do forget a point, please mention it in the comment section below.
- Never download TORRENTS ( This coming from me, ironic )
- Don’t ever give out your information on an invalidated or unverified site. Before giving out the information, just google about that site and find out how secure the site really is, you’ll find rants and reviews from various people,
- Download content from sites. Everything we do is a form of download and by this statement I’d like to bring to your notice, that not every site provides what it tells the customer that it is providing. Luckily google can save you and with a little search about the topic, you could avoid a lot of things.
- Use Internet Protection. This point is going to be in both DOs and DON’Ts because of various reasons. These software’s block a lot of websites that you use daily just because they seem to find something fishy in the site’s code. Some allow you to add a whitelist where you add a specific site that you don’t want the software to block and this saves you from the task of pausing the protection while you visit the site.
- Save passwords on the browser. If you don’t only know, the browser applications have the ability to share data with your computer and if someone can do that without having to hack, then you know what a hacker could do your accounts when he gets hold of the passwords. ( you might even loose your FB girlfriend ( if any ) )
The DO’s of the Internet
If you don’t already know, these are things to be done when online
- Start using the private browsing feature when using public internet.
- Use a Linux distro or an Anti Malware to avoid unnecessary data leakage or unnecessary program installations. Linux protects you upto a certain level but since the majority are on Windows , please use an Anti Malware.
- Log out from every site that you started a session with. Even if the site automatically logs you out after a few minutes, make sure you log out right when you leave. This is might get hectic if you have a habit to re-visit the site every 5 minutes and you keep logging in and logging out but, it’s better than loosing your data.
- Use Verified Sites for your cloud storage activities and again, Google is your friend.
- Try to store your data on the cloud. Now, this might clash with a few statements I’ve made before but by storing the files on a really well known cloud service which is hard to break into, will protect your data a lot more than your own system. You could setup an old system as a cloud machine and turn it off when you are not using it, thus keeping you away from the internet and getting it hacked. ( Post will be coming up, don’t worry )
These are a few things you should keep note off. If I’ve missed a point, please mention it in the comments.
Even though doing this, might keep hackers away from you for a little time but there is no real way to be totally hacker proof. We know that technology improves and this improvement does have loopholes and cyber security professionals are paid to find these loopholes and if they miss , the hacker takes care of the rest.
One thing you could do is, use VPN’s which are private networks and might help you get the others out of your way when transferring or receiving data, but that could be hacked as well.
That’s all for now, make sure you share if you like the post and check out other articles too. I’m writing them so that humans could learn things, not for Google’s Bots.
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