Showing posts with label Security Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Security Tips. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 April 2010

What Children are doing in the Internet?


To day I was talking with one of my neighbor. She was too much worried about her two child who are using too much time in Internet. They are facebook addicted. They pass most of their time in facebook. The woman was worried about their child being addicted in pornography. Because facebook is a place to spread the nudity. there are so many groups who are working for spreading the nudity.

She was worried not only about facebook. She was also worried about what their children are doing in the Internet. How are they passing their times. Even are they passing any personal information with others?

What do you think about it. Are you thinking about your children? Are they safe?


She wants some suggestion from me to keep their child safe and away from pornography. There are so many ways to block porn sites in your computer. But in the term of facebook you can not do anything. I suggest her some tips to follow.
talk about the dangerous side of sharing personal information with unknown people. Warn them there are too many criminals and hacker are surfing the net to collect personal information to take advantages. Teach them about privacy in the Internet.

Place the computer in a place that it can be seen what they are doing in that. Make sure the screen is easy to see from all place.

Try to see who is in your child's friend list. what type of text or message is he exchanging.

Its all about carefulness. Do it if you need.

Thursday, 8 April 2010

safety tips to use a public computer.

We need to use public computer for various reasons. Sometimes we need to use the public computers in cyber cafe or we use it in our campus. But do we know those computers are safe enough to use our personal information in it? Perhaps no. We are not aware of it. But it may causes to lose our account information, password or credit card number. So we need to follow some simple rules to prevent our personal information being hacked.

  • Don't forget to log out.
Don't forget to log out when you finish browsing any site. Don't just close the window or type another address in the address bar with out logging out. Generally social networking sites or web mail like yahoo or gmail keeps the log in records that will save your logged in condition. Then it is very easy for the man who came next to use the site with your account. So just log out at the time of leaving the pc.

  • Don't save password.
When you type your user name and password in any site some browser will ask you to save your password in the browser. Never do it in a public computer. When you sign in, you will see a tick box that says "remember me" or "keep me sign in". Always keep it unchecked before log in.

  • Clear your History.
After finishing your work delete the history and the temporary Internet files to protect your privacy.

  • Don't use super sensitive information in a public pc.
Hi, if you really want to safe, don't type the Credit card number and password or any other financial information in a public computer. It is possible for a hacker to use any program to record the key stroke in any computer. It is also possible to keep the records of your user name and password, even you logged out and deleted all of your activities in that computer.

So, don't do this if you rally want to be safe.

These are all for this time. But not for all time. Enjoy!