Incidents due to Social Networking Sites

1) Be careful about the information you put online, like if you put your photo or video or your account details will stay for a long time and who ever is connected can see it. Hackers will use these sites to collect the personal information and may misuse them, so be careful.

2) Remember don't put personal information like your family details, addresses, personal photographs, videos etc. Most of the sites and services provide optioons for privacy settings to prevent attackers to view your information. you can make use of these options to choose/deny whoever you want to allow or not to see your information.

3) Be careful if you want to meet social networking friends in person, as sometimes it may not be their true identity which is posted. Always think before you meet strangers. If you decide to meet then do it in a public place during the day. Kids should never be allowed to meet such strangers alone.

4) Don't ever click suspicious link while logged into social networking accounts. If you are curious you can manually eneter/key-in the URL in to the browser to view it and after that always clean it's browser's cookie and cache.

5)install good versions of anti virusand anti key logger to keep your system free from keyloggers and backdoor trojans.

6)Don't ever run any javascripts while logged into social networking accounts.

7)Don't ever share your password with anyone else and keep changing your password regularly.Always use proper password(minimum 8 digit with a mix of alpha numeric and special characters).

8)Don't ever login into any other site other than legitimate sites and always use check the URL before you proceed further.

9)Use virtual keyboard , wherever possible, to enter your password for better security as these cannot be captured by key-logger.