Ensure Your Safety: Get Rid Of These 5 Poor Tech Habits

Nowadays, everyone is making use of gadgets and is connected to internet, dealing with some or the other business.  But have you ever wondered that in the process of dealing with these technologies, you might develop some terrible habits? Indeed, harm or breach to your valuable assets and accounts.

1. Skipping the 2-Step AuthenticationEvery now and then when you sign-up for a new online account, it asks you for a 2 step authentication to protect important accounts. But, you usually click on the “skip “button (as nobody wants to wait, even though it might take few seconds).But do you know how important is this verification?  Such process prevents hackers from logging into your account even they might able to steal your passwords.

  

2.  One Password for all the accountsIn the modern world, when there are so many things to remember from your salary account details to all your girlfriend’s birthdays. It seems hard to remember different passwords for different accounts. Then what do we do, we put a same password for all the accounts and stay happy.

3. One password for lifetime?Keeping different passwords are a genuine approach, but at the same time, it’s advisable to keep changing your passwords on regular basis.Microsoft recommends that you change your passwords every 30 to 90 days to be safe. So keep it in mind, you can stick to one life-partner but not one password all the time.

4.  Postpone Important UpdatesOften, you might have noticed certain messages popping up in your phone or on your desktop showing the urgency of updating your phone or softwares.

The best possible thing you do it is- ignore!Obviously, you might be busy chatting or listening to music or blogging. But do you have any idea, how important is updating your system?

5. Scrimping on storageScrimping on capacity to save few bucks is certainly not a good decision. One can persist to spend on storage cost but a mere accumulation could result in losing your valuable data and legal information.

When you are opting for small capacity; the OS might seize certain gigabytes and a half dozen Gif files will fill the entire storage. Scrimping or Saving? Choice is yours.