Today's Information technology or computer system totally based on data. Here data is king, and as we are moving toward a digital world we are leaving a huge amount of data every day. As we are leaving data as a footprint now a days it's quite easy to track people. Like from Google search we can find anything from the globe. From Facebook we can easily find personal information about millions of people, and the same way we can easily get lots of personal information from all kind of social media. All these data are used to to serve many kinds of services to all.
For e.g. 1) Google used your location to give location based results like navigation, map etc.
But but but...........
Just think what if all this data are misused ....
Yes misused ,
Hundreds of billions are lost each year berceuse of cyber-attacks, The risk of online fraud are increase daily and identity theft grow ever larger. At this stage we can't leave to use technology just for protect our self from attacks and tracking.
The best way to protect is too aware from this. Here is some simple top 21 methods for protecting your online data and identity.
1) Create Facebook account without giving your real email or mobile number :- For that just search for temporary mails, and used it for registration on Facebook or social media.
2) Used encrypted mail servers:- E.g. you can used YOPMAIL.COM for temporary mail sending and receiving PROTONMAIL.COM for encrypted mailing.
3) Change your passwords to passphrase's
4) Do not shear your passwords with untrusted website
5) Used VPN
6) Used temporary mobile numbers
7) Used online proxy servers
8) Turn of device synchronization
9) Type urls for visiting websites instead of clicking on links
10) Used two factor authentication
11) Uninstalled unwanted apps (apps may run back roundly and shear your data)
12) Do not shear untrusted messages
13) For File storage and archiving used POGOPLUG and TRANSPORTER
14) While using public Wi-Fi only visit HTTPS encrypted websites otherwise any one nearby can used FIRESHEEP to see everything you are doing
15) Most of the search engines track users and keep search history and build profile must clear your search history (not only from browsers but also from Google's data based) Or used DUCKDUCKGO
16) Enable cookies on your BROWSER only when required.
17) Hide your personal information.
18) Blacklist untrusted websites on browsers
19) For online shopping must check out the URL of website before registering on that.
20) Logout of social media sites while you browse the web
21) Change your smartphones privacy settings
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..its really helpful...thanks ankit