Ep 33: Online safety advice to help you avoid being hacked.

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About a week ago, online superstar, celebrity, marketing maven, fitness expert and tribe builder Chalene Johnson got the surprise of her life...she got hacked!

Chalene wasn't the target of the hack because she is famous, a celebrity or wealthy...she was hacked because she was an accessible target like thousands of others that become victims on a daily basis. 

There are always three elements needed for crime to happen.

A criminal

An opportunity

A victim

The goal of crime prevention is to remove any one of those elements and when you do, you will remove the crime. That is exactly what this episode and show notes are about...crime prevention.

The more educated you become, the less likely you will be a victim. The more you insulate yourself, the more you remove the opportunity.  Chalene wants this story shared so that other's don't also become victims.

Click here to go to Chalene's podcasts about what happened to her.

Here are my top 10 tips to help insulate yourself and avoid, or at least make it a lot harder, to be a victim. The time in the podcast is listed when I talk about these points specifically so you can jump right there.

1) BE SMART:5:30

2) UPDATES:6:45

3) PASSWORDS:7:26

4) PASSWORD MANAGER:8:22Here are some very highly rated password managers that can work great for your needs. Dashlane, Lastpass, Roboform, Password Manager Pro, 1Password, KeePass

5) 2 FACTOR AUTHENTICATION / TWO STEP AUTHORIZATION:9:45

6) LOCATION SETTINGS:13:18

7) DON’T US APPS FOR LOGINS:13:51

8) CREATE A DEDICATED SOCIAL EMAIL ADDRESS:14:46

9) DEDICATED CREDIT CARD:15:55

10) STOP PLAYING GAMES:16:26

In Episode 6 of The Police Podcast, I spoke to Los Angeles County Sherrifs Deputy, Tony Moore who is a cyber safety expert. Hear what he had to say about cyber safety and the advice he gave by listening to that episode as well. 

Deputy Moore spends some time focusing on Facebook...which we all know has some serious privacy issues. 

Click here to hear Deputy Moore.