Security of your computer andor smart phones are extremely important?

byHowToBeA

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6 years ago

It is why I try to change passwords and build good security around my business and devices used. The more complex your passwords and using the right security softwares and virus protections are essential to at least detering hackers from stealing your information or hacking your websites.

Hackers exposed the personal information of 110 million people in 2013 and 2014, nearly half the nation's adults. In those years, more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen in a single attack against Target. Yahoo had all 3 billion of its accounts hacked according to theweek.com

In 2016 Consumerreports.org wrote a great article about how smart phones have become a big target given that there are more than 5 billion phone users with most of them being smart phones.

It is why the " HTTPS " is so vital to your website and a good virus malware protection is also good practice but make sure to do your due diligence when choosing one.

Keep in mind that as your website continues to rank and knock off some of your competitors some will become good friends or acquaintances and others will just be pure haters and in some cases will even try to hack your website to sabotage it.

It's happen to me previously and it's not a whole lot of fun trying to recover everything on your site specially if you've had it for a while with a lot of content and material you could stand to loose if not using security measures.

If your on a Mac you could enable FileVault and your Firewall to prevent from hackers getting into the back end of your computer. There are several videos on yuotube that could help you with this and I highly recommend it.

As far as a PC you could also find some great videos helping you close the back door to your computer.

Another good practice is to generate complex passwords not easily hacked but don't do what I did recently, I changed my password using a complex varity and forgot to write it down before I logged out from my computer and could not access my computer for 4 days.

And because I use a Mac I could have used my Apple ID to logon but guess what ? I forgot that password too. Learned a valueble lesson and 4 days of lost time with my business and personal stuff that didn't get done.

So, good ole Youtube to the rescue learning from IT's and Hackers from India, Iraq and some in the US to hack into my own computer, ha ha. Yea, you could learn anything on Youtube.

Secure your business and your devices for a piece of mind.