Internet security tips – How to secure your information both online & offline

#1. Always keep your privacy

• Some people at most times complain about the plight they’re passing through but forgetting to learn from their mistakes and still go ahead to do the same error.
• For example, you can be browsing on your laptop computer while using a secured connection but neglecting the fact that people sitting behind or beside you can makeuse of your information even without the fellow using any computer; the person can use a camcorder to snap the screen of your computer.
• And in such a situation where you are entering your online banking details, you will just notice that there is nomore cash in your account the next time you made an attempts to use the account.
• For this reason, you need to be extra-careful whenever you are using your computer to access the internet either in your office or in the general public place where thenumber of people going there are more than three people at an interval.
• This type of ugly situation can ensue in your working place when you are browsing through your online email account.
• One of your co-workers may be looking at how you enter yourpassword from an angle of the office unknown to you and thereby later go over to access your email without your consent.

• Whenever you are browsing the internet on your computer, you should make sure that you don’t store your password and username on the computer browser or on the internet.
• In most cases when you are accessing your email address or internet banking account on the internet, your internet browser may ask you whether to help you storeyour login details, and it is your right as someone who knows well about how internet insecurity has turned many people into a wrecked human being to ignore the message and store your password in your brain instead of storing it on your computer browseror internet sites.
• Anybody can make use of your computer, be it your friends or any other person that is closer to you and they can have access to your private data.

• When You Are Alone Your online banking account must not be an account that you can check justanywhere.
• You should make sure not to open your online account that relates to your financial and personal information on public places. These can only be done when you are alone.
• One good rule that a good internet surfer must keep is not to under-estimate fellow human being when browsing an important website that pertains to your finance and confidential files.
  

• Situation may arise when you’ll need to store some of your files on a secured serve over the internet for future reference- so as to prevent loosing it. But, you should be careful of where on the internet you want to save it.
• If you want to save an important information to online uploading sites like 4shared and many other uploading sites, you should make sure that you use the premium version of their service, in which will help you protect your data from being looked-upon by others who search for it through the search box, you’ll also be able to download it back to your computer atany time you need it.