Communicate Safely!

• Be careful about providing your email address to apps or websites.
• Watch out for email about orders, delivery notices or reductions.
• Look for any discrepancy between the sender name and her email address.
• Watch out for SMS with un-familiar URL or requesting actions.
• Trust your instincts. ​

Passphrase not password!

• Passwords are essential to protecting our identity. However, they are either too simple to remember for us so easy to guess by computers or complexes so hard to remember or type.
• Passphrases are series of random words or a sentence depicting an event, a trip, a picture … Easier to remember with stronger protection.

One should be able to create a memorable passphrase it could be based on vacation memory, picture description, description of an itinerary …. Once created, protect it by:

• Using a different passphrase for every account or device you have and use a password manager to store them.
• Never sharing the passphrase, including with your colleagues or supervisor.
• Not login into your sensitive accounts from public computers they may capture all your keystrokes.
• Enabling two-factors authentication, whenever offered.
• Closing, deleting or disabling an account if you are no longer using it. ​

Shop safely online!

​​​​​What can malicious actors do?

• Create fraudulent sites and email messages.
• Intercept insecure transactions.
• Target vulnerable computers.

And what should you do?

• Deal only with reputable vendors.
• Make sure your information is being encrypted HTTPS with genuine vendor's certificate (click on the padlock).
• Watch out for email requesting information or action.
• Check shopping apps settings for your privacy.
• Check your bank statements.