Looking for online shopping tips? Well, we got you! As we all know, you can do almost everything online, from shopping to paying bills to buying groceries.
Even though online shopping existed before the pandemic, I’ve been doing it since 2018 and still enjoy it. When the health crisis started in 2020, it got even better.
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This makes things easier for users, but it also makes it more likely that bad things will happen to online shoppers, like having their accounts hacked and their information was stolen.
No one knows when these attacks will happen, so that anyone could get hurt.
This might be unavoidable, but you can protect yourself from attacks like this. Here are just a few.
Microsoft gave six basic rules for doing business safely on the internet.
How to Enhance Cybersecurity and Protect Your Online Identity
Six Online Shopping Safety Rules
These six criteria help you minimize dangers, whether checking your bank balance, paying a bill, giving money, shopping, or selling.
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Computer Security
Set up automatic updates for all your software, including your web browser, to help keep your online transactions safe. Install known-safe antivirus and anti-spyware software. Don’t switch off your firewall. Protect your wireless router with a password and be careful with flash drives.
Secure Passwords
Passwords that are difficult to crack are simple for the user to remember but difficult for others to decipher. They consist of lengthy phrases or sentences that combine uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, and symbols.
Never divulge your PINs or passwords to anybody else. Discussing them over the phone, in electronic mail or instant messaging, on social networking sites, or in instant chats is inappropriate.
Always use a unique password for your critical online accounts, including your bank account. Try to avoid using the same password every time. All of the information that it guards may be put in jeopardy if it were stolen.
Find Website Address
If you click on a link in an email, text message, instant message, or pop-up advertisement, you can be taken to a website that appears authentic but is not. You can access a website by typing the address into your browser or using a bookmark or favorite you have created.
Look for Secure and Reliable Websites
Before entering sensitive data, ensure the web address has https and a closed padlock.
Ensure you’re visiting the right site, like your bank’s, not a phony. If a site requires your username and password, but your browser regularly enters them, check the site and URL. Your browser may not auto-login since it needs to be the right site.
Save Financial Transactions
Never pay bills, bank, shop, or handle any financial transaction on a public computer, a computer you don’t manage, or a device (such as a laptop or cell phone) while connected to a public wireless network. This includes both the risk of identity theft and the risk of someone else accessing your sensitive information.
Watch out for bargains and offers that sound too good to be authentic, alerts from your “bank” that your account will be closed unless you act immediately, phone calls from a “family” needing money, or a refusal to meet in person for a local transaction.
Additional Tips
- Read the site’s policy on privacy to find out if they sell your information to other people.
- Only tell people what they need to know to make a purchase.
- Don’t save your password, address, or credit card information on sites.
These are some online shopping tips for you! We hope this helps you in getting the best safety practice whenever you shop online!
