3 ways to protect your online privacy in the modern world with McAfee
by Shery Williams
Published Mon, Aug 27th 2018, 11:10 | Computers
Nowadays, we spend most of our time online surfing for shopping or banking or on the social media. But little do we pay hindrance on our safety in online privacy and their consequences. Confidential data gets lost, money gets stolen, uploaded pictures of yours in the social media gets leaked, spam messages get forwarded to all your friends in the social media, and many other worst consequences.
There are certain things which allow you to get connected with the modern world
IoT (Internet of thing)
This term is used for the connected devices which are connected to the internet like IP cameras, smart TVs and other applications, and interactive speakers. It usually comes up with the certain security features and sometimes comes with the password protection. But they are vulnerable to get hacked if the password remains to be same as provided by the company.
Computers and Smartphones
Cybercrooks are now more focused on making money by distributing the malware to cause chaos. Cryptocurrency miners and ransomware are the two big examples of such. They ask for money in return for the safety data after they lock down the computers of the normal users’, businesses, and the government agencies.
The malicious apps in the smartphones have turn out to be the growing threats for the users globally. Through the mobile ads which can be seen in those risky apps, are designed so by the hackers to make money with that.
Source : mcafee.com/activate
Bio
Shery Williams has been writing technical articles, She loves to write on antivirus software, web browsers, operating systems like Windows, Mac and more. In all her articles, she tries to make her readers updated with the latest changes happening around the technology world.
