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3 important steps to a safer Internet life.–PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

3 Important Internet Safety Tips<\/h4>\n

By Vamsi Krishna for MakeTechEasier<\/p>\n

The Internet is a maze. It is full of hackers, wannabes, and thieves. As a user, we have to do everything we need to do to take care of our privacy and security. Sure, many of us use some sort of antivirus and firewall solutions, but these precautions are not enough when you are wandering through the Internet. The good thing is making your Internet life more secure is relatively easy. Here are the top three things that you should follow to make your Internet life more secure and sound.<\/p>\n

1. Enable Two Factor Authentication<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of our online accounts like email accounts and social accounts contain a lot of personal and confidential information. While these accounts are protected by the passwords, we all know that passwords can be easily cracked and are no longer secure. Two factor authentication is what you need. What it essentially does is provides an additional layer of security by asking for more than a password, e.g. a time-based code sent to your mobile device or generated by your mobile device.<\/p>\n

Without that extra code, you just cannot log in to your online account even if you have the actual password. Fortunately, most of the online services like Google, Facebook, LastPass, Amazon, etc., have already introduced this feature. Moreover, setting up the two factor authentication on any online service doesn\u2019t require more than ten minutes. So always enable two factor authentication wherever possible. Many of you may think of this feature as noting but annoyance, but it is worth enabling to protect your privacy.<\/p>\n

Tips Continued Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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This excerpt is shared with permission from maketecheasier.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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