ow to Protect Yourself from Cyberstalking
To reduce the risk of stalking, you need to pay attention to cyber hygiene. Kai Mikhailov advises at least creating complex passwords for accounts and using multi-factor authentication. You should also be wary of links, as they may be phishing. It is important to clean sensitive data in correspondence.
but they will certainly limit the potential for actions by Internet adversaries," says Kai Mikhailov.
Vasily Stepanenko from senegal whatsapp resource Nubes advised to post as little information about a person's identity in the public domain as possible, and also to restrict access rights - for example, to make a page on social networks closed. It is advisable to add only familiar people as friends, and to block suspicious profiles.
To minimize the risk of personal data leakage, Vasily Stepanenko suggests creating a separate email with a neutral nickname for loyalty program registrations. Maria Mikhailova from Angara Security said that, if possible, inaccurate data should be provided - for example, in some cases it is not necessary to provide a real name or date of birth. To protect yourself from delivery service leaks, couriers can be called to the entrance, and a taxi - to the neighboring house.
It is advisable to install an application on your smartphone that protects against spam and scammers. The CEO of Nubes reminded that you can participate in filling the databases of scammers, spammers and other intruders so that fewer people suffer from their actions.
"You can also turn off geolocation on your smartphone for applications that do not need it, and turn it on only when using the application," added Vasily Stepanenko. "And it is important to remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch. It is better to buy the official application than to install a free one that monitors the user. This is especially true for VPN, because all traffic goes through the VPN server."
Maria Mikhailova from Angara Security also advised disabling geolocation on photos and posts, and commercial publications with mandatory geolocation can be published with a delay of several hours so that there is no way to track the user in real time.
If the persecution does not stop, you should save screenshots of letters and other materials and file a complaint with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"Such measures cannot guarantee confidentiality,
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