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The information society has meant that most of the active population is present in the network of networks. Internet is an open field of possibilities but also a minefield for the most intimate and private users. In a recent study, 60% of southern Europeans that connects internet usually do not trust enough to share confidential documents this way. In addition, 38.5% confident that the network itself, 73% say protecting those shared documents, although more than 65% do not know any protection tool.
Do not have a password on your iPhone or iPad and do not disconnect the mail session in other people's computers are some of the bad practices that people commit when not protect our data. To reduce this feeling of fear, I recommend these simple steps to protect your privacy on the Internet and in our smartphone.
[B]Protect your smarthphone or tablet with a password.
Choosing not password protect these devices is the digital equivalent of leaving your home or car without putting the key. Spend two seconds by entering a password every time we access our terminal eliminates surprises.[/B]
[B]Put a Google alert with your name
This is a very easy way to be aware of what is being said about you online. It takes less than a minute to do. At this address you can write your name in quotes.[CODE]http://www.google.com/alerts[/CODE]
And already, waiting to be named.[/B]
[B]Close all the sessions you access
Protect each session is very important. When we are wasting time in all our social networking profiles and forget Logout tracking possibilities can be endless. Also, if someone uses the computer after you have previously accessed will see each and every one of your pages and could trigger terrible consequences.[/B]
[B]No cries your email, telephone or postal code
Today for registranos on any website we need to our email, any promotion in a mall asking us an e-mail and, lately, the shops they ask a postal code when executing card purchase.
However, we can refuse, not mandatory offer to strangers. We always have that option. In addition, companies use our zip codes to track our address to send promotions and do not want.[/B]
[B]Encrypt the computer
Encryption is the process by which information can be encrypted so no one else can access it. This is what would happen if we put a password on your computer.
In the case of being a Mac user, go to "tools", "security and privacy", choose "FileVault" and choose "switch to FileVault". Windows users will need to use BitLocker[/B]
[B]Use the "two-step verification" for Gmail
Gmail users have the possibility to increase the security of their accounts using two-factor authentication. This, in addition to a password, you are prompted for the access code of 6 numbers generated by an application installed on your smartphone.[/B]
[B]Use a tool to block those trying to track us
From Linux recommend using Do Not Track Plus that blocks the "robots" Internet. "Any company that tries to gather information about our network habits, history or any other relevant information, will remain with the win," they say.[/B]
[B]Facebook privacy changes to 'just friends'
This will prevent any content that you show on your profile is public and accessible to anyone who tries to get you.
Although Facebook has spent years posting your privacy policy, many people today still do not protect their publications. Accessing Facebook tools we change our preferences[/B]
[B]Clear history and cookies from your computer
This is a simple step that can prevent the "robots" crawl our activity on a computer. The first thing to do is this path Start / Control Panel / Internet Options, once there we click delete cookies, delete history and delete files in this way and we're done with cleaning internet files. But remember to do every so often because they are not permanently deleted.[/B]
Best regards, happy and secure Xmas.
Do not have a password on your iPhone or iPad and do not disconnect the mail session in other people's computers are some of the bad practices that people commit when not protect our data. To reduce this feeling of fear, I recommend these simple steps to protect your privacy on the Internet and in our smartphone.
[B]Protect your smarthphone or tablet with a password.
Choosing not password protect these devices is the digital equivalent of leaving your home or car without putting the key. Spend two seconds by entering a password every time we access our terminal eliminates surprises.[/B]
[B]Put a Google alert with your name
This is a very easy way to be aware of what is being said about you online. It takes less than a minute to do. At this address you can write your name in quotes.[CODE]http://www.google.com/alerts[/CODE]
And already, waiting to be named.[/B]
[B]Close all the sessions you access
Protect each session is very important. When we are wasting time in all our social networking profiles and forget Logout tracking possibilities can be endless. Also, if someone uses the computer after you have previously accessed will see each and every one of your pages and could trigger terrible consequences.[/B]
[B]No cries your email, telephone or postal code
Today for registranos on any website we need to our email, any promotion in a mall asking us an e-mail and, lately, the shops they ask a postal code when executing card purchase.
However, we can refuse, not mandatory offer to strangers. We always have that option. In addition, companies use our zip codes to track our address to send promotions and do not want.[/B]
[B]Encrypt the computer
Encryption is the process by which information can be encrypted so no one else can access it. This is what would happen if we put a password on your computer.
In the case of being a Mac user, go to "tools", "security and privacy", choose "FileVault" and choose "switch to FileVault". Windows users will need to use BitLocker[/B]
[B]Use the "two-step verification" for Gmail
Gmail users have the possibility to increase the security of their accounts using two-factor authentication. This, in addition to a password, you are prompted for the access code of 6 numbers generated by an application installed on your smartphone.[/B]
[B]Use a tool to block those trying to track us
From Linux recommend using Do Not Track Plus that blocks the "robots" Internet. "Any company that tries to gather information about our network habits, history or any other relevant information, will remain with the win," they say.[/B]
[B]Facebook privacy changes to 'just friends'
This will prevent any content that you show on your profile is public and accessible to anyone who tries to get you.
Although Facebook has spent years posting your privacy policy, many people today still do not protect their publications. Accessing Facebook tools we change our preferences[/B]
[B]Clear history and cookies from your computer
This is a simple step that can prevent the "robots" crawl our activity on a computer. The first thing to do is this path Start / Control Panel / Internet Options, once there we click delete cookies, delete history and delete files in this way and we're done with cleaning internet files. But remember to do every so often because they are not permanently deleted.[/B]
Best regards, happy and secure Xmas.
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