Whether you're banking online, connecting with friends, sending emails, or checking out the real estate market in your area, the Internet has become an essential part of everyday life.
What you may not know is that this amazing resource is also a breeding ground for criminal activity – where your every move can be monitored and your information compromised. Some examples-
- Your every single key stroke can be recorded ,
- You can be get phished,
- Your Social accounts can be hacked,
- Your whole system sensitive information can be compromised,
- Your sensitive data can be extracted from you devices
But if you take the time to learn about the common threats and risks, online security then protecting yourself can be easy.
In this Stay Secure from hackers (Part 1/2) I will be showing you how to stay secure, programs to use, and what not to do to compromise your machine at local level or Offline.
Stay secure from hackers (Part 1/2)
1. Basic things to keep in mind to stay secure:
a.) Be mindful of what username on your computer that you are using, while unlikely it can connect a person to a computer. So using “Rahul singh” is probably not a good idea if that is your name.
b.) If you are using chrome, congratulations, you are part of a botnet. Uninstall that garbage and get a real browser, Firefox. I will discuss later what you should use to keep your browser secure.
2. Programs which helps to stay secure:
So you renamed your username and got your browser right? Well now you need to get some programs to secure your HDD (Hard drive), information being transferred, written, and keystrokes recorded.
a.) Anti-Virus/Firewalls – So one of the first things you should get as a countermeasure is an Anti-Virus and Firewall. There are 2 very useful things come to my mind which work great.
Malware Bytes Anti Malware – Find a way to get it, the registered version will come with a real time protection feature that comes in handy .
Commando Firewall – A decent firewall.
So now that you have some suggestions, you are ready to move onto the next part. Realize that most AV/Firewalls will be sufficient and that is just my personal choices.
Encryption of keystrokes and data stored on Disk Drives – So now you have your computer secured from incoming threats as far as other hacktivists trying to compromise your machine, and information, let’s go to the next step, in case of you getting SWATTED or someone else tries to use third party software to read information off of your disks, we need to secure that. Here are the Some life savers that come to mind to keep this information safe.
Truecrypt – A nice piece of software to encrypt your data on your drives, using different algorithms and hash’s to secure your hard drive. It is freeware so you can pick it up from their website and use it, it can even encrypt removable drives. When you encrypt, you will be asked to create an encryption key, make sure you to use strong phrase, and DO NOT write it down, keep it in your mind. You will also be asked to create a recovery disk, if you do make it, put it in a remote location or break it on spot.
Key Scrambler – You can pick them up for free if you know how, but basically what this program does is exactly what it is called. It scrambled your key strokes, for instance, you can be typing “Hack” and it will at random scramble with all valid keys, so it could come out "|!6}".
Deep Freeze – This is a neat little program, It can also be attained for free. What this program does is when you have it in a “Frozen state” it basically takes a snapshot of your PC, with all its information and can roll back to that state at any time. This is great if you want to install something, have communications not logged on your PC, or a number of other things erased just by restarting only.
We will Discuss more in next part which have more interesting things and totally based on Online security and Anonymity remaining Security will get covered in next part of
Stay secure from hackers
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