How To Stay Safe Online

Over the past few years, financial losses due to malware, hacking and online scams have been measured in billions per annum. It is astonishing how people still do not put their internet security on top priority. This even at an age when we are buying something as small as a toothbrush to as expensive like an air condition online. We are paying several of our bills via online bank transfers too. At Norton customer service, we still encounter people who do not feel investing in an antivirus is their top priority.

Wrong mindsets can leave you vulnerable

 A lot of this mindset has to do with the fact that we believe ourselves to be too small and insignificant to be of any interest to cybercriminals. We believe them to be a band of intelligent, high end (if you may) criminals who are after looting big corporations. While we are right in guessing that they are an intelligent lot, a general person does not understand the world of cybercrime.

The big corporations are educated on the risks. So they employ some of the best minds and invest on the best security systems to save their confidential data. This makes it very hard for hackers to intrude and get their way with these organizations. At Norton technical support, we are well aware of the existence of the category of hackers that find it a lot more lucrative to hack into the devices of micro and small businesses. It takes them little to no effort to gain access to a small to moderate amount of data. Over the course of a few days, they can gain access to enough data to make a fortune.

Sometimes these criminals sell these data to third parties, who could be competitors or someone with a relevant interest.  In fact, this is one of the primary reasons why it is a good idea to change your user id’s and passwords often. Technicians at Norton support phone number would like to inform the public that often hackers will hack on devices over a course of days, collect enough data and sell it to some third party. In such cases, even if your password for some important website, like online banking, is stolen, it is not put to use immediately to rob you off your money.

Change passwords in regular intervals

If you have a habit of changing your passwords in regular intervals, such hackers can cause you little harm. That is because by the time, they or some other third party they sell the data to, try to access your account using the password they had stolen, you will have already changed your password to something new. Like technicians at Norton helpline number would highly recommend, it is always wise to set strong passwords that are a combination of numeric, symbols, capital and small letters.

Do not share passwords with anyone or write them down somewhere. When logging in, be careful no colleague or acquaintance is looking at your screen. And lastly, invest in a strong antivirus that can fight off the wide variety of malicious software that invade the cyber world at every given moment. Norton support is always there to help you take the right decisions and troubleshoot any technical errors you get!