Steps on How to Avoid Phishing Attacks on your Social Network Account

How to Avoid Phishing Attacks on your Social Network Account.

Social networking site like the popular Facebook, Twitter and a lot more are quite the main target of online fraud. We have read and heard from the news that this social networking sites are very vulnerable in online exploitation via emails but this vulnerability can be minimized if the user knows what are the Dos and DONTs as they used and log in on their accounts.

Here are some of the steps that might help your account from online fraud and exploitation.

1. For sites such as Facebook create a bookmark for the log-in page, or type the URL directly into the browser address bar;

2. Don’t click on links in e-mail messages;

3. Only type in confidential data on a secure web site;

4. Check your bank account(s) regularly and report anything suspicious to your bank;

5. Look for giveaway signs of phishing e-mails:

6. If it’s not addressed to you personally; If you’re not the only recipient; If there are spelling mistakes, poor grammar or syntax or other clumsy use of language.

7 Install Internet security software and keep anti-virus updated; Install security patches;

8. Be wary of unsolicited e-mail or IM messages;

9. Be careful about logging in with Administrator rights;

10 Backup your data.

Source: Kaspersky Lab