5 Top Twitter Security Tips

The new era of social networking websites has come to change entirely the online fellowship. This kind of websites provide a lot different features and parameters of interaction between the users which enable them to connect via numerous different ways. The endless benefits that follow social networking, have come to mitigate this role as major security issues have occurred.

Facebook and Twitter are the most popular social networking websites and both suffer from numerous security issues, with phishing attacks to have the first role on this. The popularity of social networks has lured malicious users, who try to attack Twitter users. Many users often ask us how to secure their accounts adequately, thus we will try cover this need by providing some general tips that can be used not only to secure your Twitter account, but also to enhance the security of your Facebook account.

1.Always keep in mind that strong passwords is of high importance in order to secure adequately your accounts. A strong password contains a combination of capital letters, small letters, numbers and special characters. For each account you should always use different passwords. Your password must not be related to any of your personal information. Do not use words or phrases that are easily available on dictionaries.
2.In order to avoid phishing pages which may allow malicious users to obtain personal confidential data, you should always check at the address bar before entering your ID and password. It must be always twitter.com.
3.If you ever try public available networks, which we dont recommend, it is very important to sign into your account by https://twitter.com rather than http://twitter.com, in order to protect your account and your confidential data from any sort of sniffing.
4.Another way to secure your accounts is in the first place to secure your computer. Firewalls and IDSs are very important to protect your computer from infections by some sort of malware like keyloggers.
5.Maybe the most important way to secure your account is in the first place to secure the smartphone you may use. Nowadays, most of the users login to their accounts via their smartphones so smartphone security might be more important even from the security of your personal computer.