This year, the leave period will begin for many people before the Eid al-Fitr, which starts on Wednesday, April 10. The nine-day period, including Eid al-Fitr, will bring about intense digital activity. Digital security company ESET shared its recommendations for those who want to do digital cleaning on their smart devices.
Review your passwords and passwords.
While some applications we access from our smart devices regularly ask us to change passwords and passwords, some of them we never change. Especially if you use the same passwords and passwords in the applications you use frequently, it is time to separate them and change them.
Check your social media accounts and privacy settings
A significant part of our daily lives now takes place on social media applications. Consider the privacy settings of your social media accounts in detail. Limit who can view your accounts and how much of your information can be seen.
Say goodbye to apps you don’t use
Check out all the apps installed on your device. Ask when you last used these applications and whether you need them. Uninstall any apps you don’t need, and consider disabling apps you use occasionally as well.
Updates
After reducing the applications installed on your device to a reasonable number and preventing them from running at startup, see if you are using the most up-to-date versions of these applications. Outdated applications may contain vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can exploit. Keep your operating system and all your applications up to date by downloading available updates.
Clean up emails
If you use an email program such as Microsoft Outlook, either all emails or attachments to those emails are stored on your device. Some free email service providers offer limited online storage. It may be the perfect time to spring clean your email inbox, sorting your emails from oldest to newest and deciding to delete them.
Downloads
Do you store all the files you download from the internet in one or more folders? If you don’t need them, delete these files and empty your recycle bin. Thus, you can free up a large amount of space on the hard disk without making much effort.
Pictures and Videos
There are hundreds of pictures and videos on your laptop, phone or tablet. Consider deleting photos and low-quality screenshots, or alternatively moving them to an external hard drive, network attached storage device (NAS), cloud storage or, in some cases, a USB.
