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Ways To Stay Safe When Connecting To The Internet!!!

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A University of Salford exhibition at the Manc...

A University of Salford exhibition at the Manchester Science Festival will follow in the footsteps of Monty Python by asking: “What has the Internet has ever done for us?” The Family Telecommunications Exhibition is showing this weekend and features a collection of artefacts and demonstrations including the Morse telegraph, telephones, mobile phones, home computers, the Internet and much more. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Throughout the years, I have came to be very paranoid about how should I protect myself from the bad things that harbor along with the good things on the Internet.  It is never easy to weed out the bad things from the good things, therefore I always on the lookout for newer and better technology to protect myself from all Internet bad things.  To tell the truth, I don’t have anything to protect other than my online financial activities just like everybody does nowadays…  Banking nowadays can be done easily online, but sometimes the insecurity of doing it online can be even more stressful than doing it the traditional way — but nobody is sure that traditional way is anyway safer than banking online… get it?  Anyhow, since I’m so paranoid about online security over the years, to a great discomfort of mine, I think I have knew several ways to stay safe from strangers’ prying eyes when connecting to the Internet.  Of course, there are countless ways to skin this cat, and it’s an ongoing thing, but I have simply pooled the easiest and the most necessary ways that one can stay safe when connecting to the Internet into a video.  I hope this will help anybody who needs some guidance on how to stay safe when connecting to the Internet.  Also, this video will be something that I will gladly tell the people I know in real life who are very much ignorant about their online safety.  The video will prevent me from giving a long boring lecture, because it will be the boring lecture instead of me — avoid the wrath of the people who if ever need my help on online security.  So, if you need any guidance on staying secure when connecting to the Internet, why not check out my video right after the break.  Enjoy!

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Whether You Like It Or Not, You Can Become A Victim Of Identity Theft!

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Whether you like it or not, you can become a victim of identity theft.  We’ve so often heard about stories of how hackers deployed botnets to overtake confidential and financial information from databases of various reputable corporations and businesses, but we rarely think twice about such stories as we go on with our daily routines in our lives.  Maybe a few angry, witty self mumbles in relation to “not again” when another hacker story appears, but the cup of coffee is still warmed and so we click the mouse to move on to the next story without caring much for the last.  Why should we right?  The next story is probably even more interesting.  A computer screen changes as the next story with newer images slowly comes into view (freaking 56K Internet connection).  In fact, we should put our coffee cup down and think twice about the hacking story.

Such a story as “U.S. Targets Computer Network Used in ‘Massive’ Hacker Fraud‘ is here to remind us that the businesses that were compromised by these hackers are the ones that have been keeping our precious financial information.  Not everyone of us will be hacked, but some of us will probably have to scramble to figure what credit cards to cancel and much more for these businesses probably have kept our information on their compromised databases.

The problem is that we can only worry about our end, but beyond that we are helpless!  For an instance, the story I’ve mentioned above points out that the hackers behind that massive hacker fraud were in operation for almost a decade.  With that in mind, we now know even the authorities are having problem of catching these hackers fast enough so less damages would have been done to us all.

Should we be evermore careful in dealing with corporations and businesses for fearing of losing our identity and confidential information?  How do we know a multi-billion dollars business will be safer than a store around the corner of the street where some of us stop by so often to shop?  How do we this and that?  The truth is that we don’t know.  Still, it’s better for us to not make the same mistake twice by continue to deal with businesses that are not dedicated enough to protect us from hackers.

In conclusion, the point of having to argue why should we care about a headline that reports on the discover of a huge group of hackers or a massive hacker fraud is that we are helpless bunch.  We can make a difference by telling businesses that we want them to provide the best security measures they can when it comes down to protect us from hackers.  Besides pointing the fingers at businesses, we should look at ourselves ever closer such as how much more paranoid we can be to protect ourselves from hackers.  There are many obvious things we can do to protect ourselves from hackers, but so many of us still foolishly enough to dare surf the web or open up a strange email without a proper firewall and antivirus software.  The point is to give a damn!