Predators who stalk people while online can pose a serious physical threat. Check the accuracy of your personal accounts, credit cards, and documents. Are there unexplained transactions? Questionable or unauthorized changes? If so, dangerous malware installed by predators or hackers may already be lurking.
Hackers and predators pose equally serious and but very different threats. An unprotected computer is like an open door for computer hackers and predators. To take it a step further, protect your computer from hackers by using a spam filter or gateway to scan inbound email or instant messages.
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Another method is via text, where you just tell the website your phone number and it sends you a text with a PIN code when you log in. To give yourself an added measure of security against that, you can put a custom PIN code on your SIM card with your cellphone provider. My bank does offer 2FA by text now, and I have it set up.
A survey showed that only 28 percent of Americans use it, while more than half of them had never heard of it. If 2FA is available on a site you use, take advantage of it. And if you save your login for future use, you only have to do it once. The reason why the hackers were able to buy food on my credit card was because I saved my credit card info on those food delivery accounts.
This is not always possible — Uber, for example, requires you to have a credit card attached to your account at all times. But where you can avoid saving your card on your account, you absolutely should. In the end, none of these methods are foolproof and this list is not exhaustive, but they are a great place to start. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.
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