How To Avoid Becoming A Cyber Stalking Victim

Today when everything has gone online, threats and fears also have found their place on the virtual world.  People are being threatened for no apparent reason and receive unsolicited mails, chats and messages on their social profiles or phone number. Their information is stolen by cyber criminals to be inappropriately used. If anyone is dealing with any or all of these activities, he has become a victim of Cyber Stalking.

Being stalked is already a very scary feeling because you don’t know who is following you; what you are dealing with; and what can it lead to. When done online, the consequences can be unimaginable as well as unavoidable.

Following are some precautions an individual can take to not to become a prey to a cyber stalker:

1.       Keep your personal and public email id different and use them as they are meant to.

2.       Unless absolutely necessary don’t give the personal (correct) information on social sites. If you do, there is no need to make it public.

3.       If you are not sure of the privacy policy of any site, better would be to avoid it. For social sites, choose not to publish the photos (as well as names) from which identifying you is easy (or identifying at all).

4.       Keep resetting your passwords routinely.

5.       Consider your privacy as a treasure and give out only what is absolutely required.

6.       Keep a track on how your name is being used (or abused) for that matter. Set up a Google alert of your name, so that every time you name is talked about on the web you know. If you find something unauthorized, request moderator for removing it from the page.

7.       Take only those services that have strict prohibiting policies for cyber stalkers.

If, despite all the above precautions, you are being stalked online, you can do the following:

·         Block the people you are suspicious about.

·         Remove yourself from the web platform for a while, just to ensure that the stalker gets bored while trying to find you and leave the idea altogether.

·         Save the messages and emails as proof of the offense stalker is liable for. Rather than deleting the comments all together, just don’t publish them.

·         File a complaint if you find the stalker publishing negative or inappropriate thing about you on the Internet. You can also ask the moderator to remove it.

·         If the harasser is believed to be in the workplace, let your employer know about it. This would help reducing damage of professional reputation.

Last but not the least is to not suffer in silence or isolation when you receive cyber threats. Friends and family can be a great support if you give them a chance to be one

Author: R Smith
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Cyber Security Tips Given By Click4Support

I can surely understand the sleepless nights people have when they have some large amount of cash in the lockers of their home and not in the bank. The same nights come flooding back if your confidential data is lying there on your PC and you worry about the security it should have.

This was about just one individual; imagine about the business owners who have so much data that needs to be kept safe from prying eyes and hands. The importance a cyber security can thus be understood very well.

The measures can include-

The ‘Password’ way

A long debate used to entail when it came to creating and keep changing the passwords. The situation has begun to shift as the authentication processes can be trickier than ever due to the presence of the retina scan, fingerprint scan and vice scans as a better alternative. However, the good-old passwords would still take some time to get completely disappeared from the cyber world. To stay at guard, rules of the game are still the same.

·         Complex-translating-to-strong passwords

·         Different for different website

·         And use of good password managers

If you are finding it difficult to do so, read Click4Support customer reviews; wondering why? Well, it would tell you about an expert online technical service provider that has assisted many clients with the issues related to the password creation and account recovery.

Layered authentication

Formally known as multi-factor authentication (MFA), the security measure is now being applied by many websites to secure the content of its users. During the login process, the websites include addition steps than only passwords, like Mobile verification if the account is accessed from different PC / gadget than those on which the settings are saved. This measure is believed to be helpful in eliminating some of the weakness of the human / machine-generated passwords.

Through the secured web browser

We are using the internet at all the steps of professional and personal life; that makes the people utterly dependent on the browsers they are familiar or comfortable with. One hitch and the work can get stuck for an hour or so. To avoid such an issue, keep the web browsers up to date, along with the plugins you have installed for your convenience. If you don’t do that, you will keep worrying of browser-based exploits that take hold of vulnerabilities of the browser which is removed with every version update.

Keep the cyber security basics in place

With everything getting modern, do not forget about the anti-virus /anti-malware, firewall, version update of the all the software, keeping data backup. If the older threats are getting older it doesn’t mean that they have disappeared from the face of cyber world. Several of the Click4Support scams, where hackers have abused the good name of the tech support provider company, prove so.

Be prepared for everything!

Author: R Smith

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