How safe are you from hackers?

Online crime costs Aussies over $1 billion each year. The Federal Government's Cyber Security Strategy (CSS) aims to see this figure reduced. According to the Government’s Stay Smart Online website, here's what you should do to be safer online:


Mobile devices

  • Turn on security features

  • Install reputable security software

  • Turn your Bluetooth off when you’re not using it

  • Use encrypted wi-fi networks that require a password and ensure your device does not automatically connect to new wi-fi networks

  • Check app permissions. Consider whether you want apps to have access to your information


Computers

  • Set and use strong passwords

  • Back up your data

  • Be wary of emails even though they may appear to come from a legitimate source

  • Set your anti-virus and anti-spyware software to scan every incoming and outgoing email and attachment automatically

  • Regularly update software


Social media

  • Read and understand social networking privacy settings

  • Protect your accounts with strong passwords

  • Consider turning off geolocation features in social networking apps

  • Never access social networking by clicking a link in an email or other website

  • Never click on suspicious links, even if they are from your friends, as their social media account may have been hacked

 

How many of these security measures do you have in place?

Read more at The Guardian

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Had to contact Telstra last Friday. My Filipina consultant wants to be my own personal Telstra assistant by clicking on a link sent to my mobile. After the latest news about my details being sold to shadowy figures, I hesitate. Then, today, when I tried to link to Facebook on my mobile, I received what looked like a scam virus warning and a dreadful buzzing noise. All good now, but what was that all about?  Is it linked to my recent contacts with Telstra re my mobile?

And another thing. I have spent the whole weekend filling in paperwork (or should I say screen work) for my borderline Intellectually Impaired son who has worked from the day he left school at one job or another. He has worked his way into jobs in the mining industry and wants to improve his situation. Everything must be done online. He has no hope of coping with this. I am technologically challenged myself, and I have learned heaps this weekend from a kind neighbour and a son-in-law, but what about the poor folk who do not have this support? Maybe Centrelink should be looking at upskilling jobseekers technologically.

Sorry, but I have gone right off track through utter frustration. Next I will start on Australia Post and Queensland Transport, more computer linked frustration.

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