How to Be Safe Online – Cybersecurity Tips to Keep Your Browsing Secure

How to be safe online

There are various precautions you can take to keep yourself safe on the Internet. Let's discuss each one now.

1. Use Strong Passwords

When you're creating an account on a platform, make sure you use a strong password. This will help ensure that cyber attackers cannot break through that password easily and engage in suspicious activity on your system. Now , you maybe thinking what is a strong or weak password? A password which a lot of people commonly use is a weak password – for example, "0123456789", "9876543210", or "Password". Attackers can discover these weak passwords easily.

But when a password is not common, like "WA[T8{N#Tv4", "h812h$$6y48", or "#$U^d#v@4", it's much harder to guess. If you are not able to create a strong password on your own, you can use services like  or . They help you create strong passwords that are very hard to guess, they give you a secure place to store those passwords and other info.

2. Beware of scams

If you get an email that says that you've won some large sum of money or offers something you're not expecting, beware.

These scams often ask you for your personal and financial information...and once you had it over, then they do not respond. This is known as a phishing attack where the hacker attempts to defraud a user to gain some personal benefits.

So let's look at how you can protect yourself from these types of attacks: First, don't click on any of the links provided in suspicious emails. If you think it's from a trusted source and you click on any of the links, make sure that the domain name is the same of that of the website, like example.com should be example.com. It's often possible that an attacker has used a clone of the real site and is trying to get your account info for that site.

If you discover such a scam, flag the email as spam as soon as possible.

Never reply to these types of emails. Not replying and reporting them as spam help ensure that you won't fall prey to this scam in the future.

Next, don't download any of the files provided by malicious emails, because they can contain various types of virus like Malwares, Trojan Horses, and more.

Finally, I'd recommend that you delete that email ASAP (this is optional, but it's a good idea). And then you don't need to worry anymore about that email :)

3. Keep your operating system and browsers up to date

Whenever there's a new version available for your browser or OS, make sure you update it as soon as possible. Old versions may have lower levels of security or might not be as powerful as the new version. All this can lead to more cyberattacks on your system.