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firms may put in place control measurements on social media, to prevent the release of vital
information to competitors.

Corporate spies

Everyone has a way through which they earn their income. Some people are quite talented in
spying, and when they seek to be your friends, you may not know about their motives. With
time, they may gain access to your confidential information, through hacking. More so, if you
don’t have a strong password or don’t regularly change the password, making it vulnerable.
With time you may be accused of espionage, whereas you even know not about it. So play safe.

Corruption of passwords

A lot of people may be at high risk of their passwords being corrupted. To the hacker, this is an
easy way to maneuver, and they have a lot of loopholes they can utilise. One of the ways that
you ease their work is through remembering the password, which makes it so easy for them to
bypass.

With time, a lot of your personal information is at their disposal. They end up acquiring a lot of
information about you even regarding other accounts and your financial information as well. Be
safe and input strong passwords, and also regularly change the passwords. Using different
passwords for different accounts also makes it hard for people to connect and make relations
between the accounts. Hence you remain protected.

Links to malware

Many people tend to fall victim of this. Upon logging into their accounts, some enticing links may
emerge that lead you to click on them. On clicking on other links, it may require you to sign up
giving more personal information. Well, most are malicious and are only there to enable you to
reveal more information about yourself, and it may not work so well on your part. Avoid falling
into the trap and only follow links from trusted sources.

The trick of remaining safe while using social media is knowing how much to let people know
about you. Using strong passwords, and changing them regularly. To survive on the internet
open only trusted links to avoid malicious links.

About the Author

This article was written by Simon Parker at Minerva Security. Minerva is an integrated fire &
security service provider with a clear vision to create smarter environments, and to help its
customers reduce their fire and security operating costs.

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