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As the digital age continues to evolve into an essential part of daily life, it is important to take your online security seriously. Here are some ways you can keep your online life secure.
Online security is a growing concern. College students can benefit from protecting their devices and information online. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported more complaints (847,376) and losses ($6.9 billion) from internet scams in 2021 compared to the last four years.
“There’s sort of this digital twin of everything we are–our identity, all of our medical records, all of our bank information,” said Doug Jacobson, an electrical and computer engineering professor. “So, we really want to make sure that we have control of that.”
Use multiple passwords
The one thing you would not want anyone to know should not be the key to your entire online existence.
Jacobson said having diverse passwords is just as important as having a strong one. At the very least, you should cycle between a few passwords. It does not matter how strong and detailed your password is. If you reuse the exact same password for every service, a hacker will be able to access all your accounts if they figure it out.
Jacobson recommends organizing passwords into three categories and using a password manager to easily remember passwords for multiple accounts.
“Bank accounts and other types of authentication, those I tend to tell people to be unique,” Jacobson said. “Then you may have a set of things that are now really bad if you kind of lost the ..
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