How To Secure Your Privacy When Surfing Over The Internet : Online Security Tips

Internet is itself a different world, most of us spend big hours of our daily schedule surfing the Internet for many purposes, may it be chatting with friends, working on some official work, watching movies, or playing games.

In simple words, life is impossible without the term "Internet" in today's world.

We moved into the information age where everything is possible and can be done with any digital device that has Internet access. May it be ordering food for ourselves or booking a ride to a new destination, selecting a holiday plan to fly to the destination everything can be done there.

Have you ever imagined that the data collected from us by these companies where we purchased some products are at risk, how?

Many companies gather some personal information and store them in a huge amounts such as Email addresses, credit card details, phone numbers, and Physical addresses and sell them to third-party companies where they can track our activities, find out our interests and behavior which can help them to market us properly with their products.

Most of the time we are unaware of these situations and fill some random forms available to win some crazy kinds of stuff, participate in some useless events, or anything similar to this.

It is always a good idea to avoid these scams as much as possible to avoid potential risks.

Safety tips you can use to secure yourself online :

1. Sign in to some trusted connections

Keep in mind that don't jump out quickly if you find some free Internet connections or Wi-Fi hotspots near you, may it be anywhere in a coffee shop, railway station, or even bus stop, free Wi-Fi attracts all, even hackers too.

you have no idea, who is accessing your device information from the background over the same network to steal your credentials by using some malicious backdoors into your device.

2. Don't store sensitive information digitally

Nowadays we got the habit of storing things digitally, may it be photos, videos, or even text files. By using several applications without any proper knowledge. 

However putting your sensitive data into any digital medium rises the chance of security risks, if by any angle it got hacked or stolen you are with nothing then.

3. Visit trusted websites always with high authority

If you are looking for any information or planning to make a purchase from any online portal, then make sure you check the URL properly of the site and have good trust over this. 

Never visit sites looking similar to a trusted site, you may trouble yourself when accessing that site.

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4. Always use a VPN application for your Internet session

While surfing over the Internet make sure you use a VPN application for smartphones so that you can hide your real online identity and protect yourself from being hacked.

Never use VPN applications for illegal intentions, you may land in jail for such behaviors.

5. Use trusted browsers & applications on your device

Always use trusted browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, etc.. as your browser. Don't use other random browsers and apps that have no authority and trust, they may compromise your security and steal data from your device.

While installing any application grant the access permissions carefully by reading the terms & conditions.

Stay secure and share these tips with others.