Online Email and Account Security Tips for Bloggers
By
TheBloggerTips on
February 28th, 2008
There are alots of online security tips to protect yourself in term of program and email login as well as online credit card transactions. As a blogger, you should take care of yourself when doing transaction or activities online. Here are some protection tips for your reference. You may apply or let your friends or family to know about this.
1. Sign-in Program or Webmail Usage
- Use different passwords for every single email or program.
- Don’t store a list of all your passwords in a document on your computer or in your mailbox, don’t keep such a list in your wallet either.
- Never use the obvious passwords like birthdates, place where you live, name of your dog, and so on. Use non-existing words combine character and numeric and symbols.
- Make sure you always click the log-off button when leaving.
- What yahoo has implemented in its email with “sign-in seal” - a phrase of your choice, so everytime you want to access to your email address you can see first your phrase, otherwise you could be a victim of pishing. All websites should implement this option to avoid pishing attacks.
2. Online Money or Credit Card
- Use prepaid credit card for “verifications” and CC funded account, in worst case scenario, only that money will be stolen
- All your account are linked to an individual safe mail account, with thunderbird for easy management.
- Get hard password based on sentences to remember them, no copy nor online nor offline.
- Change your passwords on monthly basis for your accounts.
- Never keep for long money in digital money, store it in an offshore bank account.
- always type in you browser the account address rather than favorites or links in emails.
- Use VPN account to encrypt most of your traffic for any potential wifi sniffer.
- Use virtual keyboard everytime, some nice free program available on USB keys.
- Never use a public PC, prefer always your own PC you know to be safe.
- Never open mails with links to payment processors and don’t open such a link!
- Make sure the ‘S’ is always after the http when accessing accounts.
- Do not hold all your money in same place, spreading among accounts and payment processors will soften the pain when one account gets hacked.
Feel free to provide your feedback or comments if you have other tips.
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February 29th, 2008 at 1:00 am
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Aaron Wakling