Online Safety Tips

With the abrupt increase in the usage of online portals in Pakistan, it has become difficult to determine the difference between genuine and fake links spreading throughout the internet world. Having such illusions in mind, it is mandatory to adopt some online safety tips when doing online shopping, installing any software on computer and mobile, posting pictures on social media networks, using passwords while creating online profiles, updating personal information on the internet, opening emails from unknown links, and applying for any online job. Keeping up-to-date antivirus software in computers and mobiles is the best way to safeguard from hacking tools and malicious programs.  In Pakistan, yearly cases of blackmailing are being registered in thousand numbers. It happens after posting personal pictures on the largest used social media networks__Facebook and Instagram.  People in hurry, forget to set strong privacy settings in their accounts and this negligence led them to certain problematic situations. Sure, social networking has become a common practice in the world. But, this has also created many kinds of violence against women and children, specifically. Why? Because of, giving personal details_Name, address, institution and workplace information as well as current locations, primary emails, posting pictures of relatives and friends and so on. Parents’ recklessness is the major reason that women and children encounter with online scams and become victims of cyberbullying and blackmailing. It is the only responsibility of the parents and siblings to keep a close watch on the activities of the teenage children.  Nowadays, the trend of online jobs is growing with full speed in the country. Due to the pandemic, the scammers are seeing it as an opportunity to steal personal data through offering online jobs to the students and later blackmail them with ill intentions.  Before involving  in any online activity, applying online safety tips and tricks can ensure that someone is protected from malicious attacks.