Wall Street Journals tips on online security.
1. Stop posting personal information on public forums. e.g. travel plans, new purchases. sure share with your friends on private networks, but the public?
2. Cover your employee ID when taking pictures. bad guys can clone it.
1. Stop posting personal information on public forums. e.g. travel plans, new purchases. sure share with your friends on private networks, but the public?
2. Cover your employee ID when taking pictures. bad guys can clone it.
3. Stop tagging images, geotags alert bad guys where you have been, and allow them to craft a profile and send malware e.g, " hi we met at that conference in Calabar in February".
4. Don't take photos of your workstation, hackers can see the type of software you use then customize phishing attacks on your organization.
Stop writing user names with passwords on post-it notes and sticking them on the monitor
Stop writing user names with passwords on post-it notes and sticking them on the monitor
Stop sharing work emails on social media profiles. work emails for work only and never on social media profiles. Make your email on your Linkedin and sites like Facebook profile invisible to everyone but yourself.
Create 4 email accounts
a. for work
b. for spam
c. for social media
d. personal messages
never use work email for anything else., nor use the same passwords for all 4 accounts, change passwords frequently.
a. for work
b. for spam
c. for social media
d. personal messages
never use work email for anything else., nor use the same passwords for all 4 accounts, change passwords frequently.
Use different profile pictures for different social media sites. This prevents Artificial Intelligence (Ai) apps that can rapidly scan millions of social media pages from identifying you by pic matches or similar characteristics
Those Ai can then build a massive database on you
Those Ai can then build a massive database on you
Be careful what you share on dating sites.
hashtag nudes.... could be used to blackmail you in the future.
when you make a connection, move to a secure site
hashtag nudes.... could be used to blackmail you in the future.
when you make a connection, move to a secure site
Sanitize your online CV
If possible, hide the schools you have been to, remove email and phone numbers...unless your verify
"I attended a major school in the Northwest" is ok.
Don't send CVs to organizations before you look them up. Vet people first
If possible, hide the schools you have been to, remove email and phone numbers...unless your verify
"I attended a major school in the Northwest" is ok.
Don't send CVs to organizations before you look them up. Vet people first
some of these suggestions are easy.
Enjoy
Enjoy
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