Ransomware Protection Tips

How to protect against Ransomware Attacks (Ransomware Protection Tips)

Ransomware Protection Tips

Its very important to understand that most hacker attacks involve Remote Desktop Connection vulnerabilities.

This means that they actually brute force your remote desktop connection password or they take advantage of security flaws in your remote desktop connection to be able to access your network infrastructure from the outside.

Lets identify what you should do in order to prevent an incident that even if your infrastructure has been hacked, you can have minimum impact.

How to protect against Ransomware Attacks

  1. You should use a credible antivirus solution for your endpoints (such as Webroot, Bitdefender, Sophos etc)
  2. You should never user the user account “Administrator” on other hosts than the domain Controller.
  3. You should have active “User” privileges in the Servers / Clients so user access should be limited
  4. Don’t use the Administrator password in other devices like NAS or Backup devices
  5. You should create a new e-mail account with different password for the antivirus panel, and you should never use it on other services
  6. Don’t use common passwords anywhere. Especially Administrator or privileged user access passwords.
  7. Start using a Cloud backup solution and make sure that you use different email and password
  8. Don’t save passwords in browsers or in any text file on the computers
  9. Use 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) logins whenever available (Microsoft Accounts, Google Accounts, Banking accounts etc)
Delete facebook account or any social media account

How to delete facebook or social Media Account permanently

Many of our clients understand that exposing yourself in social media is not the best thing, so they want to delete facebook or social media Account permanently.

Lots of Malware Infections are using social media profiles to find your email and send you attachments.

This is a quick guide that will help you:

  • Delete Facebook Account
  • Delete Instagram Account
  • Delete Twitter Account
  • Delete Linkedin Account
  • Delete Google Page Listing in Search results

Instructions on how to delete Facebook Account permanently

Request an archive with your information:

  1. Go here
  2. Go to the second option, ‘Download your information’, and select ‘view’
  3. If you want to download all your information, simply select ‘click file’. Else, deselect what items you don’t want in

You will be notified via email once the file is ready for download

Block these addresses to (mostly) prevent Facebook from tracking your online activity and behaviours:

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporations/facebook/all

If you ever intend on going back, deactivate your account.

  1. Once logged in, go here
  2. Click on ‘Deactivate my account’ at the bottom of the section
  3. Re-enter your password
  4. Review all the options and click on ‘Deactivate’ at the bottom

IMPORTANT: Unless you specify it, this will make you unable to use Facebook Messenger as well.

If you want to get rid of your Facebook account completely, delete your account (This takes a couple of days!):

  1. Go here
  2. You will be shown a set of steps to follow if you want to keep some of your account information (To keep messenger, for example)
  3. Re-enter your password

Instructions on how to delete Instagram Account pemanently

Request an archive with your information

  1. Using instagram WEB, not the app, go here
  2. Scroll all the way down
  3. Under ‘Data Download’, click ‘Request Download’

ig instructions

  • Check the email is correct and click ‘next’
  • Enter your password and click ‘Request Download’

!!! This takes time. Don’t immediately proceed to delete your account until you’ve gotten your archive via email.

Deactivate your account:

  • Once logged in, go here.
  • Select reason of deactivation and re enter your password
  • Click on ‘Temporarily disable your account’

!!!This disables the account until you log back in, it does NOT delete it.

Delete your account:

  1. Using instagram web and NOT the app, log in and go here.
  2. Give the reason as to why you’re deleting your account
  3. re-enter your password
  4. Click on ‘Permanently delete my account’

How to delete Twitter Account permanently

Request an archive with your information:

  1. Once logged in, go to your settings.
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the page
  3. Click on request your archive

!!! This takes time. Don’t immediately proceed to delete your account until you’ve gotten your archive via email.

Delete or deactivate your account:

  1. Once logged in, go to your settings.
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the page
  3. Click on deactivate your account
  4. Read the advice carefully
  5. Confirm deactivation
  6. You have 30 days to reactivate it (by signing in) or else your account will get deleted.

How to quickly delete any Social Media or service account

If you want to quickly see a quick catalog of services that you can delete your account from, you can visit: justdelete.me