Tips on 'Safe Social Networking'. Review on General Tips on Phishing

Most of us know all these below mention facts but still we heard so many cases about hacking of website. As par my knowledge I have mentioned some information about 'Safe Social Networking'.

Some of the information I mentioned on the basis of my experience and some of them after reading and understanding some articles.

Be Careful WhileClicking on Any Link:

Most of the time we get emailfrom our friends on our personal mail or on social network mail box,So payattention while clicking on those links. The reason is ‘Hackers’ may hack yourfriends account and send mails to you from your friends account. If you suspectthat messages is fraudulent, and then use an alternate method to contact yourfriend to checkthe authenticity of the mail. This scenario is applicable in case of joiningany social networking site because after joining we all get confirmation linkmessage.Instead of clicking on anyweblink from any mail attachment, better approach will be copy the URL and typeit in web browser or use your personal authenticated bookmarks.

Don’t AllowSocial Networking Services to Scan Email Address Book:

When we join a new social network,most of the time we receive an option that implies that enter your e-mailaddress and password to find out who else is on the network. The basic intentionbehind this is to inform all of our friends in contact list about the social networkingsite. These things canbe trap easily by the hackers because mail content only refer that what the siteis doing but they don’t do any kind of security scan.

Follow SocialEngineering Concept:

Be Selective about joining any Social Networking Site and bemore selective in case of making net friend. Reason behind this is to have acontrol on ‘fake profiles’. Read reviews and feedback about the particularwebsite and focus on the fact that ‘Is this Website useful for me’? If ‘Yes’then go for it else forget it.

Careful while installingExtras to Support particular website:

While navigating to Websites, some of them asked to installmissing resources and that could be third party software. Hackers can use thisoption to steal your data, so before installing please get authenticitycertificate about the missing resources.

Remove ‘AutoComplete’Settings for the Browsers:

Don’t make any setting related with Auto SavingUserName,Password for any browser.It is not a good approach because nay one whologged to that machine can easily accessyour information.So better approach is always end the session properly andevery time allow the website to ask your credenatials.

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Ajit