How To Protect Yourself And Your Personal Data While Using The Cyber Cafe

While people continue using the internet, most of them are oblivious of the threats they might have exposed themselves to and the need to protect themselves and their data. For example, have you been using the cyber to access your email, Facebook and other useful accounts such as your company portal? Then you might have exposed yourself to serious fraud and maybe even security risk. The data you enter in usernames and passwords can be used by high tech criminals to crack information about your bank accounts or follow you for a physical robbery.

Here is a tip that will help you protect yourself and your personal data while using the internet from a cyber cafe:

If you visit a cyber cafe make sure you check the machine that you will be using. If you find any black pin attached to the rear side of the CPU as shown in the picture here, you would do yourself a great favour not to use that computer.

That pin is nothing useful to you; it is a connection which is deliberately put there to save all the
data you enter in the computer system. It is called a hardware key-logger which is very powerful. It records each and every action you perform on the system you are using.

Why should this worry you?

If anyone gets such personal data, consider it a serious risk to your privacy over the internet. What these criminals target are passwords, banking info, or any other data you enter that can lead them to get such crucial info.

Please share this information among your friends and help the secure themselves.