Within the last half a year, people all around the world have faced approximately 10 major cyberattacks that affected the work of major corporations, businesses, governments, and social institutes.

Never think that you are an average user so the information or data of your computer is of no interest to a hacker, please is wrong thinking. The WonnaCry cyberattack affects about 230,000 computers in 150 countries, most of them ware average computer users.

Students are the most vulnerable pupils as some of them are greedy to internet users. Most students start blogging as a means of getting extra money and gaining attention to certain issues.

Follow these tips to protect your blogs as average users

1. Connect to Encrypted Wifi Only

Most public wifi is not encrypted and it’s easy to fall into the hands of man-in-the-middle attacks. To stay online safe on public wifi use the religious rule all-time when writing and studying blogs.

Switch off the” sharing” option on your computer setting, it gives you permission to share files and data to other devices but it is only safe when you are on your own secured private network.

2. Use HTTPS

Use HTTPS when visiting your website and enable SSL (secure sockets lay) while using apps to encrypt your data.

Since HTTPS is simple to exchange that allows you to reach any website and is also easy for a skilled hacker to get access to your data and your passwords.

Avoid entering personal pieces of information and sensitive information over the public wifi. Why? Because public wifi or wireless networks are not secure. Prefer to VPN or your smartphone hotspot which are more secure than the public wireless network.

3. Secure You Home Wifi Network

Hotspot or private networks (VPN, home wifi network) are safer than public wifi.

Follow these best three 3 steps to secure your home wifi networks.

Change the router admin username and choose a new password. It is necessary to change the default name and the password to secure your blog since the router is in public matters records.
Change the name of the network to make your network more liking and name the network with something that its familia to home networks.
Use VPN this will help you mask your identity and better secure your data
3. Don’t Store Password In a Browser

88% of people do this common mistake of saving their username and passwords on websites and social networks without entering them anytime they visit those websites and social networks.

People who do this are under great threat. Using your browser password manager is not enough, especially when blogging on public access websites like WordPress, Wix, or bloggers.

Since practice makes a man perfect, anytime you re-enter your password on even your social media handles it gets you safer and easy access.

4. Regularly Update Your Security Software

As a student, it is very difficult to get enough finances to buy expensive software. And it doesn’t me you should browse the internet without protection.

I get these free VPNs for you:

Windscribe VPN
ProtonVPN
OperaVPn
Search and download them to stay half-secured on the internet.

5. BackUp

Back up all your data regularly to secure it. Use Pendrive, flash drive, and the other external hard drive to store copies of all your data.

You can also copy your files to cloud storage but is less secure because is easy to get hacked. So use a flash drive and other external drives for easy retriever of data when get hacked.

6. Wrapping Up

Cybercrime has become more rampant each and every day so it is important to secure your blogs and the others before it is too late.

Hope you find these tips helpful.
Read More: https://koscyber.info/2021/11/28/cybersecurity-tips-for-student-bloggers/?preview_id=270&preview_nonce=fe45c5e54b&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=271