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Easy Steps To Secure Your Computer From Getting Hacked

Author: Abhijeet Guha
by Abhijeet Guha
Posted: Jul 08, 2019

Let's be honest, in an era where digital footprints can expose stories of everyone lives, everything that gets connected to the online network can get easily hacked. In simple terms, technically it seems that no one is secure online. There are tons of successful cyber-attacks experienced every year and hundreds of attempts. While you cannot be completely secure, there are few things that can be done to protect yourself as well as your data from the bad guys.

Let’s think of your computer as an enterprise and pledge to protect it against the hackers. This informative blog will teach you a few easy steps to beat the bad guys out there. But first, let’s look at the thing’s hackers can do with your gadgets.

Scary Things Hackers Can Do To Your PC:

  • Hijack your password or username
  • Misuse your account for illegal activities
  • Steal your data and personal information
  • Use your device to attack other computers
  • Steal your credit card details and make purchases
  • Sell your sensitive information and data to third parties
  • Takes over everything

Easy Steps To Prevent Hacking:

Install, Update and Use A Good Antivirus Software

Installing antivirus software is one of the best means to protect your PC and other devices from hacking activities and other cyber threats, but not everyone bothers to do it. A few advanced security software programs provide automatic updates, safeguarding your device from evolving cyber threats. Once you download security software, don’t forget to use it every day.

Use Complex Passwords

Your credentials to access your online accounts should always be a combination of letters, numbers, punctuation and random symbols, that is hard to guess. Complex and secure passwords are quite hard for hackers to find. Also, never use one (same) password for each account you own. And, if you are not good at remembering your passwords, consider using a reliable password manager.

Disable Your Wi-Fi

It's a very good practice to turn off your Wi-Fi when you are using it. Always turned on Wi-Fi makes a device an easily available and visible target for the bad guys. Turning off the Wi-Fi prevents your gadgets from connecting any suspicious networks.

Backup Your Computer Regularly

Despite even with the high-level security, chances are your data can be compromised, as hackers are advanced nowadays. So, backing up your data on a regular basis ensures that you don’t experience data theft or data loss.

Don't Overshare Your Personal Information Online

Using social media, you might think that you are sharing your personal information with your friends. However, revealing too much about yourself online, especially social media makes things vulnerable to the cyber criminals.

Apart from following these preventive steps to prevent hacking, make sure you get your PC or other devices checked if there are any signs of viruses or any unusual activity. Have any queries in mind? Please do share with us.

About the Author

Abhijeet is an active blogger with decent experience in IT Security industry. He do research on various topics related to cyber security and pens down in the form of articles & blogs

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