Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Top 5 tips you must know to stay safe on social networking sites

Keywords: social networking safety, online safety, safety tips for social networking, safety on social networking sites, safe social network

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Soaring mobile Internet penetration has given new success dimension to the social network usage. Facebook, has recently reviled that 488 million users regularly use Facebook mobile, and a leading digital media firm Socialnomics has admitted that 23 percent of Facebook's users check their account 5 or more times daily. But a sad news is that, taking clues of the popularity, Internet attackers have targeted 54% of Social Networking Customers, claimed Barracuda Networks, a web security company.

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Solution:

Techvedic, being a customer-centric organization, brings quick and easy tips to shield your social network profiles from the prying eyes.

Here is how-to:

1. Don’t click on links coming from unauthorized sources: Yes, the same safety as you perceived for your email communication is required here. Don’t be in haste to see what any shared links offer. Check its origin, and if suspected, delete it from your profile.

2. Don’t be too honest: Yes, the Internet perpetrators are always in hunt to get personal information about the target client or victim. In the mission they may try to break into your security questions like your birthday, home town, high school class, or mother's middle name, and later can use it to reset your password using the “Forgotten Password” option. Hence, don’t share such information openly.

3. Don’t act on untrusted messages: In an attempt to win your confidence, hackers may try to send messages as though they were from your friend circle. They may create fake profile and reading your behavior can communicate with you. Hence, always cross-check the legitimacy of any incoming message.

4. Don’t allow social networking services to scan your email address-book. Whenever you join a new social or community forum, the portal may ask for entering your email address and password to allow it to find out if your contacts were already on the network. Hence, if you don’t know or trust the websites or portals, desist yourself, as the perpetrators can track email & password to gather vital personal information about you. And eventually, could vandalize your social status.

5. Don’t navigate social network through email or other links: Yes, it’s very common practice, but could be risky, as the links shared through email can be of fake websites, intentionally planned by attackers to trap you. Hence, either use your personal bookmarks or enter the information directly on particular social networking sites.
Congrats! Hopefully, with above practices you would be able to safeguard your social networks from e-threats. For further help, contact Techvedic’s computer helpdesk, as per below contact-detail:
U.S. +855-859-0057 http://www.techvedic.com/
U.K. +800-635-0716 http://www.techvedic.co.uk/
CA 1-855-749-5861 http://www.techvedic.ca/
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