Easter, one of the seasons in which many took the opportunity to leave home to enjoy a relaxing holiday, leaving behind us a small swarm of approaches devices, gadgets and computers at home, alone and unprotected.
Usually one of the objectives of the thieves and cyber criminals seeking a neglect to do with our data, bank accounts and personal information, even nosy neighbors who peep in our digital life in addition to water the plants How protect us from these situations?
Configure the router either directly or shut it down
It may seem obvious, but we have to think about whether we need it or not have the router on when we are away from home. If you have no server, NAS or similar wish is working for such upload photos or see content from the people’s house, it’s best to turn it off completely.
We can also stop working only wired connections, if for example we have a NAS type connected computer, and turn off the WiFi. We will prevent anyone can access our network while we are away. And if we need to have activated the WiFi to feed some device, we can also reduce the transmitting power of the antennas to leave as little as possible from home. It is a simple option that usually have most routers in the section configuration of the wireless network.
Put passwords on your devices
When you leave home, a way to make access and unwanted use of your gadgets passes put password. It is something that we often forget to do non – computer equipment. For example tablets, network servers, even in some TVs and stereos or media players.
It is also important in order to bring mobile, laptop or tablet with us, because if we lose or we steal, it will be more difficult to access our content personal as phone numbers, photos, physical addresses and email, etc. .
Closed sessions on all your computers
Usually we give to keep the identity and passwords when accessing a web service, the page of the bank, power company, to our favorite social network, etc. It is very useful to not have to walk identifying ourselves whenever we enter a transaction, but also poses a great risk to our security.
For example, any thief who strain at home can turn on the computer, SmartTV, tablet, etc. we have in the house, open the browser or the appropriate application and enter the site of our bank, online store or any service we are signed without bothering to identify, since the username and password appear to him by default.
How to avoid it? It is as simple as closing sessions of all websites whose privacy we want to maintain, and especially those involving economic risks.
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Care to connect to public networks
When we are away from home is often very tempting to connect from the mobile phone or laptop somewhere WiFi access public and free to update our status in social networks, check email, surf a bit by the network, etc., despite the possible risks that can bring us.
The number of cyberattacks produced from this type of access points that often do not know who the owner is and what his intentions are, year increases after year putting at risk the personal data we store in our terminals and our home, if they can decipher the physical address of our house.
Do not discuss social networks holidays until you’re back
Precisely linking to the previous point we have the related information to make public on social networks, often without realizing the potential security risks that entails.
Something as innocent as Facebook or Twitter to comment and that next weekend will be away from home can open the closure for any unwanted intruder moves to your home to pay a visit to your possessions. Better wait to get back to the routine to send pictures and boast the beach or the picturesque farmhouse in which you have been living a few days.
