How is mine safety online protected
Jan 28, 2023
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A couple's of time I have found myself vulnerable on the internet, its all started when someone I trusted decided he do not trust me and all my activities enough so he planted a malware on my personal computer. As I speak with all the anti viruses etc my computer drive has crushed I was told by the repairer I sent my PC to checkout. I am seriously working on getting a new drive for it so I can get all my documents back. One sad thing about a crush, is you are not warm about backing up and saving your documents. I got up one morning to on my PC and all I knew it not booting, as I read the text it kept telling me system failed. I restarted it severally hope for a different side of the story but it remains the same, finally I took it to the engineer's and now they are saying there is a drive crushed hmm
With all the above brouhaha in my life about security browsing online I choose to train my first class of train a thon on safety and security online. As women we are so vulnerable out there regarding our security. Even the repairer you are sending your phone and computer to fix for you, you don't trust them. The world out there is so scary and people cannot be trusted at all for their selfish interest.
As I was taking my training I wrote down some of the important key areas to look at when online.
Passwords and key roles there play: Some of us must take for granted the important of passwords, but if you really need your security online consider recreating your password for all your profiles. If you have a strong password it prevents malware's and or spywares among the rest attacking your email or pages. Also with a strong password no one can predict it to use it to open you documents when you gadgets are under attack. So let all work on strong and effective password all the times.
Sharing of information: we all know it's good to let people know what it's happening in our life, off course the feeling is good to let people know what you are up to and that you are on top of your game. However we all need cautious here, because the more information shared can make us vulnerable for attackers to attack us. For example our much personal details, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details etc will be harming us.
Harmful and Abusive Incidents: Severally I have encountered this so many times, I make a statement on a social media platform or on my platform and I get attack with abusive and harmful words, to the extent of insult etc. This is not always a good feeling and it can be demoralizing. Please for your own safety and moral soundness you can pull down the post or delete your comments to create peace between you and your encounters
Fake newseand fake information: We all have personally received or come across the above. Now browsing the internet you have to be watchful of the above else you will be a victim of scam and so on. The typical example I always give here was when I last sent a link to a policewoman in Denmark sometime 2020, it was a purchase items and she need to read more about the information, so I search the Google and sent her a link to browse the items. She wrote back to me the website was fake. Wow, I was shock because if it had been me doing the buying I would have been a victim of fraudulent. Same it is with the news on our social media handles etc
Now the secret is immediately you found out of such information and news before you react to it kindly search further for the same information in other internet browsers to acertain if it true. If it true you will find similar information there too.
Intellectual Property: do you know what there are? As the name depicts there are your intellectual property, literally what you are born with, and what is uniquely yours, your talent. So example of such are songs, receipts etc. And it's involved knowledge, time, etc
Malware and viruses: If you are a computer literate you probably have come across the above words used interchangeable. Malware is simply a virus, which is design to harm a computer or distract it to be infection. Example of some of their names are adware, spyware etc it can attack and corrupt your disk or computer. However, there is hope for us to cope with such malware. One way is for us to always be on the watched on our computers and phones, study your gadgets activities, monitor them. If you monitor them well you will notice all the alert warnings it will give you. For example your gadgets all the time asked you for updates, and it alert you to install anti viruses to protect our gadgets etc
If we all do the above well we can be certain of a percentage of safety and security online. If you can join my trainathon training course schedule for 6th March on zoom we will get to learn more and share experience. I will get us all the link for zoom activities and I look forward to seeing you join me.
Thank you dearest Kirthi and to the entire world pulse team for this amazing training programs for our own benefits.
Shalom!
woman in Denmark sometime 2020, it was a purchase items and she need to read more about the information, so I search the Google and sent her a link to browse the items. She wrote back to me the website was fake. Wow, I was shock because if it had been me doing the buying I would have been a victim of fraudulent. Same it is with the news on our social media handles etc
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