Ten tips for Protecting Privacy in Cyber World

The development of social networks, like Facebook, Twitter, Google, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Habbo, and more make others can easily find out your personal information. Although the various "shields" have been installed to protect your privacy in cyberspace, the shield could have it broken.

Before the data uncovered the secret out, it's worth listening to ten ways to protect privacy. The following tips:

1. Frequently find your own name through the Google search engine. It sounds weird, but at least this is the picture to find out how much data you can know a wide audience and you can correct it if there is a mistake.

2. Change your name. These suggestions are not foreign because previously, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has said that later when growing up not overshadowed the past.

3. Change the privacy settings or security. Understand and use the features of the security settings are as optimal as possible so that not everyone can access your account.

4. Create a password as hard as possible. When registering online, you should do a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols that do not easily tracked.

5. UNTAG yourself. Consider every person who to tag your photos. Soon the un-tagged photos if you do not recognize anyone who "took" the photo.

6. Do not use questions about date of birth, address, mother's maiden name, because that question is almost always used sebaagi security questions for banks and credit card databases. Use these questions also provide opportunities for hackers to steal identities and then steal your money.

7. Do not respond to emails that do not clear. If there is electronic mail from an unknown sender or from the middle of nowhere, do not need to be addressed. If necessary, do not open it because it could be an email that carry the virus.

8. Always log out. Always remember to exit from your account, especially if you use the computer facilities.

9. Wi-FI. Create a password to use the wi-fi, if not, there might be infiltrators coming into your network.

10. Do not join social networking sites. To avoid any potential data leaks that could lead to yourself, then do not try to enter or join any social networking site.

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