How: protection against a Twitter account hijack

Twitter is a popular social network where users can short message of up to 140 characters to their followers "Tweet".

He has seen its share of scandals with celebrity gossip and the sharing of personal information. A Twitter account to protect and prevent you from, kidnapped account information to keep very private required. Users should also concern where you connect to your Twitter account page. Be careful and minimize exposure of password for the account are some of the secure account. Difficulty: easy

Instructions

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   Choose a strong password.

A random combination of letters and numbers works best. Security contains password upper and lowercase letters. Characters are the best. moderate at least 8 characters in a strong password. Password is 16 characters. Never never tell your password anyone. This is the primary means of Twitter accounts are compromised. Use never a password that you use for Twitter to other accounts, such as e-Mail, banks or Facebook.

2

Choose a solid security issue.

Twitter has security issues for forgotten passwords. Sometimes think hackers, the answer to this question of protection of password security. Ensure that can guess the answer to the question by anyone. For example, if the question "Who was my second grade teacher?" Those who went to school with them know the answer to this question.

3

Never access your Twitter account from public or shared computer.

Centralized logging programs can acndRe easily installed on a computer, and type your password. Even a "friend" can a key installieren on the a computer recorder, who know that you can check your Twitter account to his house. Computers, desktop computers in the school library use Lesune monitoring system form. In addition the software registration key installs on these computers by foreign without knowledge of the administrator.

4

Avoid phishing e-Mail scams.

Never click on links in e-Mails, you via Twitter. These E-mails of may be phony phishing e mails designed to users believe that they are authentic to lead astray. Hackers use very sophisticated, the email methods that seem legitimate to make. When an email arrives statement can access to your account, you do not click links in e-Mail. Instead, open a new page in a browser and manually type in twitter.com to visit the site.

5

Save that Twitter password not file passwords stored in the Web browser.

Who your computer can use this file to access and copy your password. In addition, if the computer does this file may have been exposed.

6

Keep always up-to-date virus and spyware.

Norton, McAfee, Spybot, nod 32 are all good software solutions to protect your computer.

7

Always open when done with Twitter.

This is simple and clear that people can easily forget step.

8

To prevent access to Twitter over any WiFi network.

Wi - Fi networks not sindschwierig to hack. If you are fake, all transferred over the network are open to the attacker. In addition to Twitter in a network, the public Wi - Fi has the same problem. The owner of the network can see everything what you do istechnologically savvy technology.

9

Disconnect and stores passwords on mobile devices.

It may be tempted to be always on Twitter on a mobile device. If the phone is lost or a person who look at it for a few minutes, it may be able, to steal your account information. Keep always a password to lock the phone.