We live in a world of social-media. Everything we do either our work or any other sort of activity, all makes us to interact with the world online.
People keep on searching things on social -media. There are numerous websites, each demanding you to create an account with them for better accessibility of the site.
Therefore, creating a number of accounts comes up with an advice to secure them. Sometimes people don’t pay heed in securing their accounts, especially the one they visit rarely.
It is wrongly perceived that these accounts are not even used, what sort of risk can they cause. Actually, the answer to it is alarming.
The sites that have all your basic information, but visited less, can turn out to be a treat for the hackers and false-doers.
Therefore, keeping an online account safe is essential and its privacy settings must be updated time to time.
Securing your online account
Numerous advices are given that help us to secure our online account. They are as follow
Installation of an Antivirus
It is one of the key points to secure your online account. Installing an antivirus not only boost your system but also prevents you from the foreseen threats.
The encrypted files, the files that ask for ransomware or other system-threatening files are detected and fought with, on the spot. Thus, a good antivirus should be installed and kept updated.
Delete the unused accounts
It is appropriate for the users to close all the unused accounts immediately. Minimizing the number of these accounts save them from being a treat to the hackers. These unused accounts not only become a treat but can also lead hackers to your valuable accounts.
Two- faced verifying technique
This is a technique used nowadays to maximize the security of your account. To lessen the threat, any unusual activity on our account is immediately addressed by google and other websites.
If someone get an access to your username and password, still it can’t open your account without being reachable to the extra code delivered to us through SMS and other apps.
Recent activity
Many of the accounts let you have easy access to the recent activity occurring on your page. This help you to be updated with the current situation all the time.
Notify your contacts
If someone get access to your account, especially Facebook account and tries to boot you out of it. You need to address the issue to the app management and update the specific contacts setting on the page.
VPN installation
It is necessary to install a VPN especially when you are using a public WI-FI. It not only removes the track of your location but also add up an additional security specially to the files you are sending and receiving.