How to protect yourself from Hackers

by Don Von Alpha Dom · 137 posts
15 years ago in Help & Support

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Posted 3 years ago

thanks for these tips

Posted 2 years ago

Thanks for the tips, I'll be careful.

Posted 2 years ago

Stay safe everyone….these are some useful tips you need to read….Thank you always Don

Posted 2 years ago

Another I'd like to add on the list is a virtual machine. You may want to download a file your unsure about... you can download the file on to a virtual machine and see if it is malicious or safe. You might get a questionable link and don't want to open it on your main.. well on a virtual machine you can open it and see if it's risky or not.

Virtual machine is pretty good for privacy and security.
Sandboxes are useful as well.

Posted 2 years ago

Great information! I'm new here and learning a lot so far!

Posted 2 years ago

@Don Von Alpha Dom

You say that with phishing only stupid people fall, in my country many people are falling for the scam, even university people, hackers have managed to call the client of any bank and send them an SMS which appears on the mobile as the same number of the bank, people trust and fall for the scam.
Do you know how they can do that?
Because sending an sms and having your bank number appear is amazing, and then they send you the sms and it redirects you to an identical page so you can enter your password

Posted 2 years ago · Author

@nenasabrosa

Good point ... more and more people seem to be falling for phishing, or smishing (the sms version). People should be checking the domain in the URL bar before entering their password. Or even better, the tech industry should make an internet browsers that checks the domain for us, and makes sure we are not entering our passwords into the incorrect website.