Top Tips
- Use strong passwords
- Keep your software updated
- Manage your social media settings
- Strengthen your home network
- Use security software including virus checkers, firewall, spam filtering, etc
- Know that identify theft can happen anywhere
- Protect your personal information
- Know what to do if you are the victim of cybercrime
- Protect your portable devices
- Backup your data
- Watch out for phishing scams (emails from criminals claiming to be from reputable organisations such as your bank)
- Never give out your password
- Don’t make passwords easy to guess