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How to ensure your personal information security to the maximum extent?
It is hardly possible to protect yourself 100%, but it is worth taking a few simple steps.
1. Have several SIM cards and smartphones for different purposes. At least three: personal, for work and for everything else. Do not give your personal number to anyone except relatives and close friends. Communicate with colleagues and partners only on your work number. Use the third one to register on websites, message boards, applications, social networks, etc. It would be a good idea to create a separate number for banks, brokers, tax authorities and State Services, which you should not give to anyone at all. This way, you will immediately cut off your personal numbers from advertising and fraudulent calls and will always know why they are calling you. And be sure to prohibit operators from doing anything with your SIM card by proxy.
2. Set a password on all SIM cards. Today, they are sold by default without a password, which is why it can be easily transferred to another phone and activated. This is a huge risk. A lot is tied to your SIM card, even if it is “for trash”. The same social networks. And if you lose your phone, fraudsters will be able to install it in a new device and gain access to accounts, for example, on social networks. What they will find there and how they will use it depends on the circumstances. We advise you to never take the device for working with banks out of the house. It is better not to use SD cards at all.
3. Secure access to the devices themselves. Lock your smartphone with a digital code. The code should not contain any hints about your data, such as your date of birth. We will not repeat, we have already written about passwords here. We will immediately advise you not to use your finger or face to log in, both to the phone and to applications. Situations are different. The smartphone can be brought to your face in a dream or unscrupulous law enforcement officers or robbers can force you to put your finger on it. You should also disable the display of SMS and pushes on the locked screen.
4. Be sure to set up two-factor authentication for all important applications, such as State Services! We will not explain what may end if fraudsters gain access to an account on Gosuslugi. This also applies to mail. By the way, then you can log in on the computer via a QR code.
5. Similar to SIM cards, have several mails and bank cards for different needs. One for personal purposes, the second for work, and the third for online shopping. Today, many services require card data and mail, so let it be a separate card and mail. At a minimum, protect yourself from spam, and at most, from fraudsters if the data is leaked online. It is more convenient to use different cards for different transactions. One for transfers to relatives, the second for payments in offline stores, and the third for online purchases and receiving cashbacks.
6. Remember that almost all services leak information sooner or later. This is not only personal data, but also photos, correspondence, videos, documents. Therefore, you should not store too much personal information on the same cloud drives. It is better to use paid services or not store anything online at all. Your photos on a flash drive or computer will definitely be safer. Do not use GetContact at all.
We will write separately about safe work in social networks and instant messengers.
All this is not very difficult, but it can seriously reduce the risk of your data being leaked.
It is hardly possible to protect yourself 100%, but it is worth taking a few simple steps.
1. Have several SIM cards and smartphones for different purposes. At least three: personal, for work and for everything else. Do not give your personal number to anyone except relatives and close friends. Communicate with colleagues and partners only on your work number. Use the third one to register on websites, message boards, applications, social networks, etc. It would be a good idea to create a separate number for banks, brokers, tax authorities and State Services, which you should not give to anyone at all. This way, you will immediately cut off your personal numbers from advertising and fraudulent calls and will always know why they are calling you. And be sure to prohibit operators from doing anything with your SIM card by proxy.
2. Set a password on all SIM cards. Today, they are sold by default without a password, which is why it can be easily transferred to another phone and activated. This is a huge risk. A lot is tied to your SIM card, even if it is “for trash”. The same social networks. And if you lose your phone, fraudsters will be able to install it in a new device and gain access to accounts, for example, on social networks. What they will find there and how they will use it depends on the circumstances. We advise you to never take the device for working with banks out of the house. It is better not to use SD cards at all.
3. Secure access to the devices themselves. Lock your smartphone with a digital code. The code should not contain any hints about your data, such as your date of birth. We will not repeat, we have already written about passwords here. We will immediately advise you not to use your finger or face to log in, both to the phone and to applications. Situations are different. The smartphone can be brought to your face in a dream or unscrupulous law enforcement officers or robbers can force you to put your finger on it. You should also disable the display of SMS and pushes on the locked screen.
4. Be sure to set up two-factor authentication for all important applications, such as State Services! We will not explain what may end if fraudsters gain access to an account on Gosuslugi. This also applies to mail. By the way, then you can log in on the computer via a QR code.
5. Similar to SIM cards, have several mails and bank cards for different needs. One for personal purposes, the second for work, and the third for online shopping. Today, many services require card data and mail, so let it be a separate card and mail. At a minimum, protect yourself from spam, and at most, from fraudsters if the data is leaked online. It is more convenient to use different cards for different transactions. One for transfers to relatives, the second for payments in offline stores, and the third for online purchases and receiving cashbacks.
6. Remember that almost all services leak information sooner or later. This is not only personal data, but also photos, correspondence, videos, documents. Therefore, you should not store too much personal information on the same cloud drives. It is better to use paid services or not store anything online at all. Your photos on a flash drive or computer will definitely be safer. Do not use GetContact at all.
We will write separately about safe work in social networks and instant messengers.
All this is not very difficult, but it can seriously reduce the risk of your data being leaked.
