ID theft – Awareness for social networkers
In this age of growing social networkers, you can never be assured on privacy concern of your personal information. Cyber criminals has continuously responded to the changing patterns of communication and focuses on email and popular social media platforms like Face book, MySpace etc. Email user has increased by 21% but social community networkers have surpassed the number by 10% in last 1 year. Thus social networks being fast and streamlining the instant communication seems to be breeding ground of hackers. People have become aware of fake email accounts up to certain extent but for a social media it is often challenging to identify since membership is open to all. Thus social media marketing websites are pacing more than email nuisances. Business friends are creating communities and sharing business views, ideas through twitter and other recognized platforms. But how far are they safe from criminals? Links sent from hacked accounts and request for financial assistance with in the member groups are really vulnerable since you can’t identify the trustworthy member next to you. For individuals, security on home based PC or office computer system has become automatic threat since around 59% of social network users do not know about their profile viewers. Most importantly 80% personal profiles are visible in Google search. So if you are continuing instant communication to promote your small scale business products, services and increase awareness among huge target verticals, you are not protected at all unless a reliable anti virus software safe guard your system. Hackers and hijackers often treat these media as their dirty play ground. Total online safety hence can do a lot for your privacy settings. Hence are few security tips: • Exercise caution while accepting friend requests from strangers • Defend your private information with anti-spyware technology • Use personal fire wall to block direct online attacks • Prevent malicious hyperlinks in email, websites or instant messages through chat or social media networking. • Regularly check web pages of new websites to avoid security risks. • Block wireless home network burglar from accessing your network connections. • Keep your confidential information safe with a good internet security solution company. Therefore every social networker should make themselves aware of possible threats and the remedy know-how.
