How to Stop Cyber Crime

Use common sense to lessen the chances of ending up a cyber crime victim.

Hackers have the ability to infiltrate your personal files, accounts, or records using a few strokes of a keyboard. Given this access, they can steal your identity or destroy your financial stability. By adopting a few principles and ideas you can better avoid becoming one of the growing number of people affected by cyber crime. There are many resources to help prevent these catastrophic events from happening to you.

Instructions

1. Read up on the latest ways hackers create phishing scams to gain access to your personal information.

2. Install a firewall on your computer to keep unwanted threats and attacks to a minimum.

3. Use caution when you consider whether to click on emails, advertisements, websites, sent files, or anything that looks suspicious.

4. Search for websites using a search engine. Understand that hackers try to imitate major websites in order to get you to input personal information on that page.

5. Install security suite software.This software helps against phishing, viruses, malware, spyware and other major threats while you browse the Internet.

6. Create strong passwords for any websites where personal information is stored. Passwords using numbers, symbols, lower and upper case are the strongest.

7. Secure your wireless network with an encrypted password. Usually a set of 32 characters.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep all applications and Windows up to date.

• Hackers are always thinking of new ways to scam or gain access to your computer.

References

• Dell: Top 10 Steps To Help Stop Cybercrime