To prevent "spring cleaning" whiteboards that cybercrime

(BPT) - Every day, more than 1 million people a victim of cybercrime, according to the Norton Cybercrime Report 2013 Heartbleed insect that attacks the vulnerable versions of OpenSSL by more people at risk. Hackers, your personal information in many places shared. In 2013, the rape of Target Corporation data affected 110 million customers. According to Norton, about 50 percent of tablet and smartphone users but still basic precautions such as passwords, security software or file backup neglect their mobile devices to protect.

It is only a matter of time until the next fault or dealers injury of digital data. To protect itself, security experts recommend "spring cleaning" your cyber footprint.

"Many people do not know that all they have to do is monitored on-line," said Ed Hill, the Web application consultant and professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University DeVry . "Consumers should precautionary measures to take to clean your cyber footprint for their own cyber."

Hill provides tips for consumers to remove or secure their cyber footprint and prevent cyber crime:

1 Accounts Remove abandoned and revise their applications. If you are active on a web page more, you delete your account - and the personal data held - not used or sold your data to prevent. In addition, there is no reason for your mobile applications to access their information.

Two. Use the "Do Not Track" on your browser. Function reports to the sites you visit to choose you want to follow. Think of this as a numbered list "no call." Not a perfect solution, as it is to opt for the Webmaster if accepted this request. However, you can help reduce the number of control points of your information. For more information about the configuration of your browser to visit donottrack.us .

This makes it harder 3 Use the "private mode". From the browser sites to track your movement around the web. Use privacy mode can help to tracking cookies on your computer. Visit howtogeek.com for details.

April. For safer browsing, use the Tor network. Initially sponsored by the U.S. Navy to protect them in the main to government communication, Tor is a non-profit organization that develops supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of State. Goal will be used to prevent websites from tracking users. Visit to download www.torproject.org goal.

"Take proactive measures to manage the information and followed about you online is the best way to protect against cybercrime," says Hill.

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