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Cyber Security - Are You Safe Online?

  • Cyber Security for Families.
  • Cyber Security for Small Businesses.
  • Cyber Security for Family Owned Businesses

All three are things most people rarely think about or actually deal with unless there is a problem. These problems can be something that starts with clicking on the wrong link or opening the wrong email. Escalation can quickly turn into compromised banking, healthcare and social media credentials along with identity theft, and cyber bullying, stalking, theft of business trade secrets, and violations of HiPAA and other regulations.

We all need to know the basics. Just like our parents taught us (hopefully) to cross the street on a green light and stop on a red, and not to put fingers in electric sockets; now similar but digital things need to be taught to all generations for privacy, cyber security and safety.

Whether your family with multiple devices, multiple social media accounts and multiple ways in which both cyber security and reputation security can be breached — or a small business up to 20 people — or a small family owned business. Don’t let another few months go by without doing a basic overall assessment and strengthening of your cyber posture. Do not believe that you are not a target or “have nothing a hacker would be interested in.” That simply is not true. Everyone is at risk. Everyone needs to actually take steps to prevent and defend against cyber attacks of all types, against us and our families. Children and older people are especially vulnerable.

How do you prevent your self against cyber attacks?

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procoder
I would like to say I'm safe but It's not true, specially when it comes to internet. Every kind of system,machine, software, apps, or whatever are vulnerable to cyber attacks, because they are built in that way, directly or non directly nothing is unhackable. Now, to be honest I'm not worried about hackers or what they are capable to do, because nobody will or can hack you without giving a "permission" to do that, what I want to say with this is that , let's say you got a "keylogger" to your email address, and this virus it's not going to do anything itself, it can't be activated automatically without opening it, it's your click that infects you not the virus itself.

I love everything that is related to technology, and cyber security is one of those field that I like more. If I'm worried to something, that is "backdoors" that big companies are using to spy to its users, through softwares, systems, devices basically everything that is connected to internet, and I'm sure that all of you probably have seen news about those things that how some big companies are spying users with backdoors that are installed to those devices.

My Advice : 1) Do not click everything you see, 2) do not open/run everything that sounds too good to be true, avoid download anything that seems suspicious, 3)Use antivirus, 4) Extra firewalls , 5) Try to keep all softwares updated 6) Store personal information only in places that are not connected to internet.

Now keep it mind that antivirus it's just a software, and it will catch only viruses that are reported as viruses , all antiviruses use a big database that contains virus details, that's how antivirus works, whenever antivirus will recognize a file as virus it means that, the ID of that virus is uploaded to their database, that's why is important to update anitivirus too often in order to get better protection.



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anwebservices
Well said procoder Cyber Security - Are You Safe Online? and you ae exactly on point. Many of us securing our selves from this and that and not even dreaming about simple hacks can be done. Yes like backdoors. No matter how we protect our computers it can be done by someone from ISP company. If anyone think this is not true, then bad luck, i know it is. So as Lynne said, i am also suspicious of everything Cyber Security - Are You Safe Online?

This is different story, but just example that, some company stuff can't be 100% trusted:
Years ago i was running my own PTC website with about 30K members. A lot of money was flowing trough, payments and payouts... Website was under attack all the time by fraudulent people who wanted to trick the system in order to earn more money for nothing... Well in some way i liked them at beginning because i was tracking them and their trick was telling me what and where to fix something....
However, there was a guy making a lot of money by referrals and he was tricky, i could exactly find out what he was doing, but i was sure 100% it was something fishy. To make long story short, after months and months of chasing him, at the end i find out he was employee of hosting company where i had my website hosted Cyber Security - Are You Safe Online?
Interesting huh??!! OMG... He was actually accessing my database to increase his balance bit by every day, until he get too greedy.
After i proved it to him, contacted him personally and let him that he is going to loose his job because i already have all the proof, he bagged me to keep silent and he returned over $2000 to my bank account...

Anyway, this made me ever after to be suspicious of everything and specially backdoors etc...

However we have to keep our selves safe at list from some simple and stupid beginners / hackers....



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procoder
Yeah "backdoors" are everywhere, everything is "backdoored" somehow, starting from the small fish to the big one. And I personally think that it doesn't exist a device that doesn't spy to its users somehow, they can use whatever reason they want, but still they don't have rights to spy, and steal our information, a backdoor is still a backdoor even if it is installed there for security purposes.

Wow what a story, sorry to hear that something like that happened to you, I just can't imagine how those companies are abusing with its customers. It has happened to you, but I'm sure that some of those "ghost" companies are still doing it, as not all people have knowledge to protect themselves online. A hosting company that steal its customers, sounds like the owner stealing its own house.



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anwebservices
well the guy was just employee there and thought i would find out, but i wasn't that stupid either Cyber Security - Are You Safe Online?



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Cristian
Nowadays people are connecting even the fridge to the internet no wonder more and more people are looking for the way to improve their online security and protect their loved ones.
I myself have a very complex wifi password that I never tell anyone, not even my friends when they come to visit, the only persons that know the passwords is my and my wife. Also, the passwords don't match with any of my past and current passwords, it's unique with total random numbers and letters and in my opinion pretty impossible to break.

I also have a modem which is also protected by a password, don't know exactly how a hacker may approach things, but I think I'm pretty well secured. We also have antivirus on the laptop and NEVER download fishy stuff, used to use the laptop without an antivirus for years and I didn't had any problems, but recently I've installed one out of fear.



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MusicMoguls
Well sir i love this article i am a internet security BUFF. I very often listen to "Security Now" when i finished i will post a link at the bottom. Basically all they talk about is new threats and how you can keep yourself safe. How do i keep myself safe online?

1. I do not answer any emails or open any that i do not recognize.

2. I make sure to not visit any websites i am not familiar with if i do i use VPN.

3. I always use an alias online to keep my true identity safe from criminals.

4. I do not download anything on the computer i use to shop online.

5. I use lastpass to keep all my passwords safe and i never use the same password twice.

These are just some of the ways i keep me and my family safe because as you say we are ALL susceptible to a cyber attack. Below im attaching the links to both Security now and lastpass.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TWiTSecurityNow


https://lastpass.com/



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Lynne
I am also using Lastpass now like Jkeyz2. I don't open anything that looks suspicious or if the email comes from someone that acts like they know me when I don't know them. Things like people emailing me invoice attachments or a link to an invoice yet I don't have an account with that person.

I also get lots of emails with competitions won or that my account is now active yet I never visited those websites or entered into any competitions.

I think a big one is never to click to click on links in an email from your bank for example. Always type in your bank's url. I know this because my bank always lets me know when I log in that there are phishing scams going on and they tell me not to click on any emails from them that ask for passwords or login details of any kind.

I find today's world quite a sad place to be at times but if you stick to doing things in a certain way you should be fine. My motto is to be suspicious of everything!



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idealmike
This is a great discussion to have for everyone that uses the Internet in some way today! Especially for young families getting online for the first time and starting to use the Internet more and more in their daily lives. From using social media sites, checking emails, surfing and browsing sites on the Internet. To doing online shopping, banking and much more. Simply because, the Internet is a public place. And like any public place you need to be alert and on your guard. You need to be a bit street smart. You need to be aware of your surroundings. You need to be aware that the Internet can be both a good thing and a bad thing at the same time.

You've brought up a very good point and I'm going to make a very good point about it.

The Internet is easily accessed. Marketed, advertised and promoted on TV, magazines, newspapers, billboards and everywhere else. All you need to do is get a computer, choose an ISP and in 24 hours or less you can get online at home. And while it can seem like a convenient tool for yourself and your family. Such as for your kids who can use it for research and using social media sites. To yourself being able to use it to check up on things like events or recipes or see what the weather is or see how your friends and family are around the world and talk on Skype and stuff like that and do shopping and things like that online. It can seem like a fun, friendly place on the face of it. But there is also a darker, underworld as well which is quite frankly, out to get you at all costs. You might think that it will never happen to you. But your details have already probably been passed around online or stolen from a site you've used in the past. Even the biggest sites like LinkedIn and Yahoo get hacked and the details can be used for nefarious reasons by cyber criminals.
How do you prevent your self against cyber attacks?

Everything you do online is traceable. You leave behind digital footprints online like you do footprints in the snow. Leave enough footprints in the snow and people can see where you've been and where you live for that matter! It's sort of the same online. It's so easy to create a Facebook profile and put your real name and address and everything on it. After all, it's Facebook so it's safe right? But cyber crims can use these details you leave online on Facebook and on any other site you've joined and used to build up a profile on you. So much so that they can go on to use it for ID fraud which can mean them using your credentials, name etc to get credit cards or take out loans etc all in your name. Often for the people that happens to they don't find out until they start getting letters asking for money. Some of them will go as far as intercepting your mail or even stealing your trash to root through it and find letters and bills and things so they can use it to create fake ID so they can use that to take out the credit and loans and buy things with it.

I'm not trying to scare people. Just saying it's as bad as that and you have to be aware that can happen if you leave too much information about yourself, or your business online or even easily interceptable via the trash you throw out! That's why you should always shred all your paperwork. Any paper bills, or any letters with your name and address and any private and sensitive information on them. Never throw these sorts of things away in the trash or out with your recycling unless you have shredded it first. Mind you even shredded paper work can be pieced back together by a really determined criminal if they think they have something using sellotape. That's why you should get a shredder that shreds the paper both ways into tiny little squares as it's much harder to repeice them back together.

But yeah! When using the Internet. Be careful about what sort of information you are giving out about yourself! Don't go telling the whole world on Facebook that you're going on holiday for the next 2 weeks and the dog is going into the kennels until you're back. It's an open invitation to saying come and burgle me. Especially if you have lots of random friends that you don't really know in real life as many people on Facebook and other social media sites do today!

And practice some common sense and stick to the rivers and streams you're used to. Use the rule of thumb that if something seems too good to be true then it often is as a way to avoid getting scammed online. Stick to the sites you know to be safe and don't go around just giving out your location and address and other details about you on public websites and the like online that can be used against you. And of course invest in some anti virus and firewalls for your computer or network. Do regular scans and security checks and make sure you have all the latest updates for your Operating System.

Just use some common sense. Take some little steps and you can safely enjoy the Internet without fear of anything negative happening. Cyber Security - Are You Safe Online?



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Corzhens
Sometimes I think about the movie of Sandra Bullock, The Net, which was about identity theft. What happens when my email is hacked and my other accounts connected to the hacked email are manipulated? To be honest, I would be helpless when that happens. The only protection I have is the anti virus which is not directly related to the issue. Maybe I have to regularly change my passwords.



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michaelwjames
I tend to think that I am safe online, but in case of an emergency, I use https://spinbackup.com/products/ransomware-protection/ for their ransomware protection. It completely protects my computer from any outside interference. I am satisfied with its performance so far.



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