Everyone wants to keep their devices safe. Correct? Well, today I’ll be giving you 7 simple steps to follow and lead to your account protection! (Plus, a password generator!)

1. Secure Passwords: Use secure passwords for all your accounts and the passwords’ levels depending on the account it is. For example, a chess account, that won’t damage anything when it gets hacked, (and no one is going to try to hack a chess account anyways) then you can use a less secure password. Like Js89br} or maybe 93,,=s””O
   There are many secure passwords and combinations. Don’t do one that is easy to guess, like 123456789, or 12345, or ABCDEFG, any combination that matches a pattern. I really don’t suggest anything that still follows a pattern like 123987, as you can see it does the pattern of the first 3 numbers: 123 and the last three numbers: 987.
2. Two-Factor Authentication: This clever technique makes you enter two passwords before it lets you access your account. Two passwords, the more the better! Two-factor authentication should be used for important passwords, like your password keeper. Or maybe your banking. You should definitely try two-factor authentication today!
3. Install Updates: Commonly install updates whenever you can. If you do this, you’ll keep your things up to date and best of all, patch up security issues. When they update, there’s a chance that they are patching up security bugs. When they do this, your system has less chance of being hacked. Updates prevent old methods from working on your new system. When you download updates, think what’s happening behind the scenes.
4. Watch When Entering Passwords: Look around when entering passwords. When you enter your password, there’s a chance that someone could be watching! Watch your surroundings, be observant, and prevent chances of being hacked. Believe it or not, some people’s brains work fast enough, and they can track what you’re typing very fast. If they do this, you might be entering a password at the time! (Remember that security cameras can also see you!) But it’s not only physical surroundings. It could be digital surroundings. . . when connecting to an unknown internet connection, there could be hackers waiting to monitor your actions. Remember that there could be bait connections, too. There could be a connection that’s the exact same name as the real one. These bait connections are usually in malls, airports, etc.
5. Report Security Bugs: If you somehow find a security bug in the system, make it your first priority to report it to the company / place that created the software. When you report these security bugs and it’s necessary, the company will make it one of their first priorities to fix the security bug. The bug will also benefit everyone that’s also using the system. So, make sure you report those security bugs!
6. Don’t Click on Everything: When something pops up suddenly when you’re using your device, never ever click on it / enter your information it tells you to enter! Unless you are 100% sure that this is a trusted corporation, never click on anything that pops up suddenly. This could be a hack and destroy your device. Wait though, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t enter your account information on everything you see. I’m saying that if you’re not sure what that thing is, never click on it / enter your information. Let’s say you want to log into an account and suddenly it tells you to enter your Social Security Number. Don’t enter it. It’s not trusted, and it will probably hack you. If the action you are taking is 100% trusted and you know that you need the security number for it, enter it. Still, be cautious for signs of hacking like this one.
7. Know How to Identify a Domain Name: To identify a Domain Name, you must first look at the URL in the page. To do this, you must look to the top of the page, then you’ll see a field that you can edit. When you edit this field, it changes the URL.

You can find the URL there. The style will be a bit different depending on your version and your web browser, but it still displays the URL. All the URLs will be different! Now. You must identify the Domain Name itself. Maybe this time it has this:

Depending on your browser and its version, the highlighted area will be the Domain Name. But you should learn it because you might encounter a web browser with an old version that doesn’t highlight the Domain Name. So, here’s how you do it:

1. Ignore the “https://” or sometimes “http://” bundle. Ignore it, so with this URL, it would be www.example.com/customize/welcome/en-us.
2. Scan to the first forward slash and ignore the rest of the bundle. In this case of www.example.com/customize/welcome/en-us, it would be the forward slash right after the .com type. I
3. Ignore the rest of the content after the first forward slash and ignore the content. It should be easy since you know the forward slash already. We should ignore the customize/welcome/en-us area. Now, we have www.example.com, right?
4. This is the last step. Scan back to periods and ignore the rest of the content before the period. In this case, we would ignore the www. So, our Domain Name is example.com

Oh yeah, I forgot about the password generator thing after all that talking. Here it is!

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