Describe the do’s and don’ts for protecting personal information online. Discuss

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Describe the do’s and don’ts for protecting personal information online.

Discuss the risks associated with the use of social media and describe common mistakes that people make that put their personal information at risk.

Address at least two of the following questions:

How much personal information can be obtained from your social media accounts?

Have your ever been the victim of a social engineering scam, or do you have firsthand knowledge of somebody who has?

What are the dangers posed by using a single password?

Why keep personal and professional contacts separate in social media sites?

Explanation / Answer

1)

Do's:

a) Kee your password strong and ungussable.

b) Do not share your password with any one online.

c) Turn on private browsing.

d) Use two-factor authentication

e) Keep your social network activity private.

Dont's:

a) Don;t be choosy about sharing your password.

b) Don't click malicious links.

c) Don't get trapped in suspecious mail.

2) Well there are many riskes associated with social media, somecan even be life threatning. I remember one of the recent event where a teenager has posted of selling his bike. This caused him to trust an unknown person, who later o murdered him to steal hi bike. So, while using social media for any purpose we should be aware of the activity and people before had. We shold not trust unknown people that we meet on social meda on daily to daily basis. We sholud update our each and evry detail. Some of the common mistake people do nowdays is to upddate their movement through checkins. This should be strictly avoided or at least should be manipulated in a way that it should not pose threat to you. Another mistake done is to add too many unknown friends and sharing information as it might also be a trap to hack your profile or account or any thing which you don't want to happen.

3) It depends. If we take facebook as an example I believe sufficient enough information can be taken about a person to cause him harm or plan any wrongdoing. On the other had if I take account of twitter it can be said that it contains least amount of users personal information or activity related to day to day movment.

4) there is great threat if we store/ keep single password for all the account. for example if one of the account is hacked the can can then easily hack all other accounts without any effort. And insted you have to apply lots of effort to change all the password again.

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