Essential Tips to Protect Yourself Against Hacking

This article is intended to give you the most basic tips for protecting yourself on wireless networks and the internet (it’s safe to say that some of these tips are just for the paranoid, or those who work in super high profile jobs). If you’re worried about what you can do to protect yourself from hackers, start with these steps!

1. Don’t use wireless networks if you can help it. Always plug a cable in and disable the wireless adapter when possible.

2. Don’t use wireless networks in public places – EVER.

3. Use a different password for every single account you have – each email account, each forum, each blog – everything. This will limit the damage if someone does break one of your accounts.

4. Use long passwords with a combination of letters, numbers, special characters and anything else the password field will accept. Long means at least 11 characters. Know about Brute-force and Dictionary cracking attacks? That’s why!

5. Don’t use another person’s computer to check any of your accounts that you care about – think about the keyloggers, Abel, cookie spoofing programs that could be installed.

6. If you have to use someone else’s computer and you really care about security, download Spybot first and run a check on their computer. If you find something, go and ask them what the hell they were playing at!!

7. Change your passwords monthly, or even weekly, for your most important accounts. This again limits the chances dramatically of a hacker discovering your login details.

8. Also, check out this free software you can use for anti virus and spyware: ‘Spybot Search and Destroy’ and ‘Avira Antivir’- I’ve been using this software for years and it’s served me very well to date.

9. And finally…if your passwords do get stolen, don’t get mad, go nuts!

If you are interested in some more complex tips and tricks to avoid being hacked, there is specific advice for a range of topics – one being about how someone can listen in on your MSN conversations: MSN Spying.

Another very popular one relates to how a person can hack your pop email account (e.g. Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird) using Cain and Abel (this is worryingly easy to perform): Cain and Abel Tutorial.

Good luck to all, and I hope this articles has been useful to you.

Source by Ana Moriera

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