Share your Tips on Protecting your E-gold, Paypal, Digital Money Account
(Digital Money World) Now, I know there are alot of smart people out there that reads my blog on daily digital currency happenings and the latest on payment news. Now it’s time to throw it back for all my readers or digital currencies people even to suggest how should you be protecting your Digital Currencies account like Paypal, E-gold, E-bullion so on and so forth.
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We will compile this list of suggestions and have it as a sticky for people to protect their digital assets. Contest will end in 7 days time. Start shooting! ;)
Bookmark e-currency Web sites, and access them via your “bookmarks/favorites”. You’ll avoid mistakes in keying in their URLs and ending up at phishing sites.
Cheers!
Roger
https://www.SwapGold.com/
Of course you must use the virtual keyboard (if it exists) ALWAYS, and enter with https instead http to the website.
And if that ecurrencie offers a criptocard (like ebullion or paypal) you should think to order it if you are managing a lot of money. As I read this cryptocard from paypal is very cheap.
I haven’t ordered the Paypal key before but I’m assuming both crypto at eBullion and key at Paypal are using 2FA modules and probably works the same.
Thanks for always contributing Jose! :)
Hey Benson,
I posted another answer before the one I see, can you check it? ;)
For the really paranoid, use a Linux Live CD and boot your machine with it. You do your transfers/payments and reboot back to your original Windows.
You can use two gold accounts, a big and a small one. The big one is accessed only with the Linux CD to send to the small one. This way, if your normal account is compromised, it will have less gold in it.
Use the PGP key login in Pecunix (at least for your most important accounts).
Send your e-gold security code to your cellphone instead of a normal e-mail address. Your attacker will then need your phone to access your account (if he does not have access to your computer and browser).
* Change your password at least every month.
* Use different passwords for every single program.
* Don’t store a list of all your passwords in a document on your computer or in your mailbox, don’t keep such a list in your wallet either.
* For your password: never use the obvious stuff like birthdates, place where you live, name of your dog, etc… Use non-existing words, combine character types
* Make sure you always hit the log-out button when leaving.
* Never open mails with links to payment processors and don’t open such a link!
* Make sure the ‘S’ is always after the http when accessing accounts.
* Don’t hold all your money in one place, spreading among accounts and payment processors will soften the pain when 1 account gets hacked.
There are so many things to protect yourself online, hard to list all of them.
- use a Linux Live CD for every log in in a moeny account, rebootat every new login for a diffeent account (I use a PC without HD just to be very secure
- use a VPN account to encrypt most of your traffic for any potential wifi sniffer
- use a virtual keyboard everytime, some nice free program available on USB keys
- the Three rules : for digitl money you us often when investing, get 3 accounts, a risky one for unsafe transaction, a medium one for “safe” transactions, a private one for storing money unknown from anybody
- the above apply too for the email based account like PP or MB, multiply the email addresses used and never give the main one, switch the main email when you send money then switch back to the real main addy ;)
- use a prepaid credit card for your “verifications” and CC funded account, in worst case scenario, only that money will be stolen
- all your account are linked to an individual safe mail account, with thunderbird, it’s easy to manage all thos accounts.
- get hard password based on sentences to remember them, no copy nor online nor offline.
- change your passwords on a monthly basis for the main accounts, quarterly for the empt accounts
- even if it costs money, never keep for long money in digital money, store it in an offshore bank account.
- always type in you browser the account address, don’t trust your favorits or links in emails
- alays check the httpS before logging in for secrity
- cryptocards are a good way, but IMo too expensive if you already apply the above
- never use a public PC , and minimize other PC usage, prefer always your own PC you know to be safe
- probably ore thigs I do automatically but I don’t remember them now lol
Cheers,
GE
What I posted before:
What I send you was something like this:
- knoppix (http://www.knoppix.com) with a pen drive where you can save all your settings and load this linux live-cd with
all your information, like a mobile operative system. Nobody can write into your live-cd. And you can even instal netcraft
toolbar in the firefox browser with knoppix.
- what yahoo has implemented in its email: a “sign-in seal” with a phrase of your choice, so everytime you want to access to
your email address you can see first your phrase, if not you could be a victim of pishing. I think that all websites should
implement this option to avoid pishing attacks.
- netcraft toolbar with firefox
- sandieboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com) if you use Windows o.s., it´s to protect your applications. Instead of writing files
to the normal location, the applications writes files to a sandbox, a temporary storage area.
- Virtual keyboard if it´s possible to avoid many trojans
- Not using windows if it´s possible, it´s better linux, bsd or mac.
- Of course if you use windows then antispyware, antivirus, antitrojan, antirootkit, etc..
- Password sent to your mobile phone
These suggestions are really.. REALLY cool. I’ll have a snippet to ask more people to come contribute. Cheers!
Hey Benson, I don’t have any technical suggestions, but here is a common sense suggestion:
1. Don’t respond to emails saying your security has been compromised. I received several emails saying my paypal account had been compromised. The email specifically asked for my user name and password. I called paypal rather than responding to the email and as it turns out the emails were not from paypal.
My suggestion is to contact the organizations directly by phone rather than online when dealing with concerns about security issues. Thanks for letting me play!
Darlene
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