With the rampant rates of hacking, it is very important to consider protecting yourself online when you go about doing your work online. Online threats like phishing attempts, surveillance, and virus attacks can lead to the loss of information and devices. They may even sometimes escalate to the physical.
Set up a strong password
Setting up a strong password for your online account or device that you are using will help prevent unauthorized access to your accounts. A strong password is not just a password but rather something hard to get, it’s random unique, and as well long. It is better to set up a passphrase instead. A passphrase is a sentence you can easily remember. For example, I love eating vegetables can be a passphrase. You don’t just write the sentence the way it is but you mix the characters. The passphrase I have given as an example could turn out strong when I mix characters this way “1L0v33at!n9veg3tables” In the end you can a mixture of characters
Use a password manager
The majority of people tend to forget their passwords. Password managers like Bitwarden help you to store your strong passwords so that you don’t easily forget but rather access the password in the manager. Password managers work by letting you protect your other passwords with a master password that you can easily remember
Set up a two-factor authentication
A two-factor authentication commonly referred to as a two-step verification is the second layer of security you add to your online account to protect it from unauthorised access. Lets imagine you have a gmail account and have set up a strong password on this account
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