Keep your wits about you, suggests the IT security product company McAfee. The firm advises that you be wary of phony websites, emails, texts and pop-ads offering “too good to be true” deals on tickets to sporting events. Here are their other pieces of advice.
Back-up the data on your smartphone or laptop: Do this before you leave for a sporting event and consider deleting any personal information that isn’t necessary.
Turn off the geo-tagging feature on your smartphone… before posting photos on sites like Facebook to avoid your location information falling into the wrong hands.
Don’t let your apps remember your user names and passwords: Also make sure you don’t store credit card information or passwords on websites. If your smartphone or laptop is lost criminals can easily access these accounts.
Use “safe search” technology: For example, McAfee SiteAdvisor for computers or SiteAdvisor Mobile for Android devices to avoid running into dangerous travel-related searches or websites. These can tell you if a site is safe to click on when it shows up in your search results.
