Online Safety

Dear Residents, 

#ADVICE | Every day we use our devices to go online and manage tasks including communication, information gathering, banking and shopping.

However, we are sometimes blissfully unaware of the ways in which hackers attempt to gain unauthorised access to our devices – and what they can do if they succeed.

There are a number of steps you could take to help protect yourself from hackers and cyber criminals including: 

🔑 Using strong passwords – make them as difficult to guess as possible.

🔐 Using Two Factor Authentication (2FA). This provides an extra security check when logging into online accounts.

🔄 Keeping your software up to date. This can prevent hackers exploiting security issues found in applications.

✋ Using a firewall. Firewalls protect one computer network from another by only allowing certain communications.

Once a hacker gains entry to a system they can do anything a real user can – so take these steps to help keep hackers out.