5 Common Online Mistakes That Could Put You at Risk

Here are five driving mistakes you can correct (if you’re “guilty” of them) that could help you avoid a car accident. Get the idea? You put yourself at risk when you hop on the road without thinking of what could wrong. The same goes with hopping on the internet and doing all the things you do without considering where there might be danger lurking around the corner. Here are five things you could be doing (or not doing) that mat be putting your identity, accounts and privacy online and out in the open: Mistake #1 . You don’t know if you have accounts that hackers have compromised in a data breach. Mistake #2. You use public Wi-Fi every day without worrying about it being an unsecure (unprotected and unsafe) internet connection. Mistake #3. You haven’t made it a certainty that no one but YOU can log-in/sign-in to your bank, credit card or social media accounts. Mistake #4. You haven’t updated the version of Windows you’re currently using. (Or haven’t updated your macOS.) Mistake #5. You don’t monitor your credit closely, so you wouldn’t know right away if someone is using your credit, applying for credit, or applying for a loan in your name. How many of the above mistakes do you make? What about your spouse, your parents or your friends? Please don’t think these mistakes aren’t that serious, because they can lead to situations you wish you could have avoided. Let’s assume you haven’t done any of these simple steps (and they really are simple). Here’s an idea of what could happen. You must admit…it all seems pretty scary, doesn’t it? What’s scarier is to think that’s it’s all true and not exaggerated. You hear stories in the news about data breaches, identity theft, hacker and more all the time. That’s the bad news. Here’s some great news to brighten the mood. You can correct these five mistakes by taking five simple, easy to do and FREE steps. And before you say to yourself, “I’ll do it later,” please realize you need to take action soon. After all, would you rather take precautions now or risk suffering the consequences of doing nothing? You need to take steps because no one else cares about your safety more than you. You don’t have to take courses to learn how to keep you and your family safer online or buy more products to start. It’s simply a matter of learning and implementing a handful of basic online safety steps. At WhatIsMyIPAddress.com, we saw the need and responded by creating an exclusive, smart, simple and free program to help you stay safer online. It’s called the Safepath 5-Step Challenge and you can read more about here .