By registering on a social network such as Odnoklassniki or VKontakte, you give hundreds of thousands of people access to your personal information. To prevent attackers from using this information, you need to follow simple security rules.
How to secure personal data
Popular social networks such as Odnoklassniki, Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter and many others give their users the opportunity to communicate and meet new people. It is assumed that a person registered in a social network will be able to find friends with the same interests. And to make it easier to find like-minded people, social services ask you to provide personal information. Often fraudsters can gain access to this information and use it for their own ends.
Links
Great care should be taken when following links that lead to external resources, even if such a link came in a message from your friend.
Information
Do not post too much personal information about yourself, this will protect yourself from fraudsters. Home and work address, time of arrival and departure from work, phone number and other information that allows you to be found in real life, it is better to keep in private access.
Password security
Come up with a complex password and secret question to recover it. Often hackers break into an account simply by clicking on the password reset button. The system asks for an answer to a security question, which can be very simple, such as the name of the dog or the name of the husband. Scammers can easily find out this information by looking at your page.
Communication security
Don't believe everything your friends write. Perhaps your friend's page has been hacked. If you have any doubts that it is your friend who is writing to you, you should contact him in some other way, for example by phone.
Enter the site
To get to the site of your favorite network, use the browser bar to enter the address or open the site you need through bookmarks. If you see a link to your social network on any third-party resource, do not use it. Perhaps you will be redirected to a fake login page, which will be used to find out your username and password.
Friends
Be selective in your communication. Do not add everyone in a row as friends, because anyone can sit on the other side of the screen. A stranger whom you have added as a friend can obtain personal information about you, which is then used for personal gain.
Data
In most modern communication services, you can delete your page within a few minutes. But remember that all the information that you have ever published, other people could save on their computer. This applies to audio recordings, photographs, videos, correspondence. Do not upload data to the network that you do not want to be distributed.
Children
If you have children, tell them about all the dangers that may lie in wait on the social network.
New communication services
Don't sign up on all the social networks you see. Before you start registering, make sure that the new resource is reliable, read reviews about it, carefully study the user agreement and privacy policy. Do not use the same username and password for all social networks. By doing this, you will save yourself from a situation when hackers, having hacked one of your accounts, gain access to all your services.
Remember that safety on social networks depends only on your conscientiousness and compliance with the rules.
