Phishing is a way personal and sensitive information are stolen. These do not just limit itself to e-mail log-ins but to credit card details too and accounts made available online. This is online theft, in other words.

It pays to have a know-how on identity theft protection.

There are password-stealing malwares lurking at every corner in the world wide web waiting for opportunities to steal these information.

How should you avoid being phished?

• Avoid using your birthdate or Social security number as your password.
• Avoid using letters and/or numbers in sequence
• Check the url of a site first before you click on it. For example, an email gives you notification about your paypal account but has a url that is not paypal’s site. Or, if you have an email stating you have purchased something but did not do so or an unclaimed package but did not send anything? Do NOT click on the links there.
• Check the security settings of social networking sites where you have accounts for these have third party applications that fish information you put.
• Should you find the need to use an internet cafe, be sure to clear the cache or clear history before you leave the workstation.

Being careful with online activity is something one should take note of.

And please, change your passwords every now and then and avoid being predictable

Can blogging be hazardous to your work?

Yes it is,whether one works in a workplace or if one is a stay-at-home-person. How and when can blogging be hazardous?

Here are some, yes, some signs:

• Are you more often than not late for work because you blogged till the wee hours?
• Is your dominant wrist hurting?
• Do you talk about what other people are saying, unofficially, rather than quoting the dailies?
• Do you get the news faster than the media networks?
• Do you feel happy when you have a free day to blog?
• Do you take photos of anything and everything that you can probably write a blog post about?
• Do you try to jot down thoughts that you just had before you forget, and write a post about it?
• Do you constantly think about what you are going to write next?
• Do you forget to cook your meal or prepare your food because you just had to finish reading or editing this last post?
• Do the dishes pile up in the sink?
• Are the clothes scattered on the floor and not picked up? Yet?
• Are your front flabs sagging more and more?
• Do your eyes feel tired and dry and hurting?
• Do you feel like you want to sleep whenever you have the chance to do so?
• Do you have ants on your computer table due to the crumbs that fall when you eat in front of your computer?
• Do you bring your laptop anywhere with you?
• Do yo know more about what is happening to your blogger friends’ lives than your relatives or neighbors who don’t?

Ah, there are still so many things to notice but these will do for now.

How many did you check?

Here is an interesting snippet that I want to share which I quoted here in this post:

In the end, the biggest threat isn’t that you’ll fail to learn to blog. It’s that if you blog regularly for long enough, and begin to get comments and links from other bloggers, you’ll have trouble doing your day job.