5 Simple steps to Protect your Online Accounts from Hacking


Outline
1. Do not use same or similar passwords for different online or social media accounts.

2. How to Generate a Strong Password, Please Do Not Use A Weak Password.

3. Never click “Remember me” or “Remember password” especially when you’re using a another persons computer or one others have access to.

4. Be wary of phishing. Avoid clicking email links without confirming.

5. Always secure your mobile devices.

1. Do not use same or similar passwords for different online or social media accounts.
• Most people want convenience, a simple password that is easy remember.
• However, have you considered that anyone that happens to know any of the passwords automatically has access to ALL your online accounts!
• Worse still, if the person is careless and a stranger gets it, then the whole world now has access to your online accounts!
• In these days of internet banking, anyone with access to any of your accounts, can easily reset your banking password and make away with your money.
• Let me let you in on a secret. Some hackers intentionally set up websites to reap usernames and passwords. Others hack popular sites to steal same information. Stay safe by using different passwords.

2. How to Generate a Strong Password, Please Do Not Use A Weak Password.
• Example of a poor password – bright, brightest (my name is Bright)
• Example of a Good password – BrightgooglE16
• There is a simple formula used to derive that password – my username plus the name of the company plus the number of characters plus three with the first and last letters capitalized.
• No hacker can guess that without having prior information
• My account has never been hacked, yours needn’t!
• Please do not write down your passwords verbatim, if you must, do so in code e.g. write down brightgoogle omitting to indicate the caps and the numbers which follow.
• With this you can easily deduce the password for any of your accounts without cramming or writing down.
• Finally, please derive your own. Tweak it a bit. Add a rule or subtract another. This is a general method of generating one. (plus a lot of people have also read this including the hackers).

3. Never click “Remember me” or “Remember password” especially when you’re using a another persons computer or one others have access to.
• Clicking that saves your username and password on that browser.
• The next user will then be able to view both your username and password and also be able to log in to your accounts. (you’re in much bigger trouble if your logon details are the same for different accounts!).
• We will cover in a later article titled How to Prevent Hacking by Erasing Your Saved Passwords on Any Computer. (Enter your email in the subscribe bar to receive this information once it is published).

4. Be wary of phishing. Avoid clicking email links without confirming.
• Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
• E.g. you receive an email titled “BVN Update” and are asked to click a link that looks similar to your bank’s official website.
• Please don’t click it unless you are very sure that it is your bank’s official address.
• A way to confirm this is to hover your cursor over the link, the real address will be displayed in the bottom left bar of the browser window (might not work on mobile devices).
• Clicking that will take you to a fake website very similar to your bank’s own.
• You will then be asked to input your sensitive information like your ATM number and pin so that they can update your information.
• Please do not fall for this scam. It is a lie, it. Always verify the address before you click.
• Even then, if possible, confirm from your bank or website. A good way is to type the address yourself.
• Any information entered in manner is stored and attempt will be made in using it to defraud you.

5. Always secure your mobile devices.
• Usually, our mobile devices are connected to our online accounts e.g. social media accounts.
• In this case, it is advisable secure them to prevent hacking due to loss or theft.
• A previous article has been written on how a woman lost 400,000 from her bank account through her stolen mobile phone (amisols.com/5-simple-steps-to-protect-your-online-accounts-from-hacking).
• An article is also available on HOW TO PREVENT FRAUSTERS FROM STEALING 400,000 FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT THROUGH YOUR MOBILE. (amisols.com/?p=391&preview=true).


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