Change your password frequently. Avoid public wi-fi. Use the bank’s web site messaging system instead of e-mail.
Those tips, says a University of Illinois Springfield based computer sciences instructor, can go a long way toward keeping you from being a victim of a cyberbreach.
Use a different password for each site you visit, too.
“If something is breached, and you don’t know about it – which probably does happen more often than not,” says assistant professor Lucas Vespa, “if an attacker gets one of your passwords, they have all of
them.”
After logging in – and you’re typing in the password rather than having the computer save it, right? – Vespa says you should make sure the web address starts with
https rather than simply http.