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Having a strong password is very important but it’s just the initial practice to avoid the cyberattack. However, here comes the list of some good habits that you should work on to keep your personal data more protected.

Use different passwords for each account  

You should create different passwords for all the accounts and try not to use similar passwords to any previous ones once you need to make the change. It’s harder for the hacker to steal your data if you have unique passwords.

Update your passwords at least every 6 months

Since the passwords usually contains a fixed length as requirement, this makes easier for the hacker to guess and crack the passwords if you don’t change the passwords regularly. Due to this fact, we highly recommend you to update your existed passwords every 6 months and even schedule the reminders on your calendar.

Don’t ever think about writing down the passwords

Although you are able to create a strong password, writing it down on the paper or sticky note is a big No to do. It’s just the same dangerous as using a weak easy-to-remember password. Many surveys related to this topic show the result that many people tend to write down their passwords and even keep them near the computers. We should honestly tell you it’s not safe even you hide them under the mousepad! In the case that you really need somewhere to keep the passwords, you should try those well-known password manager tools and save it with a USB stick for major protection.

Don’t share the passwords with anybody

You don’t share your passwords with anyone even your family or friends because your passwords are top privacy data.

Don’t send email with passwords

Some people may use the technique to send themselves the emails with passwords included in order to store all the passwords within the mail box. However, it’s quite risky because once your email box is hacked, all your passwords will be found and stolen which may involve a big personal loss.

Change your passwords immediately if you detect any suspicious movement

Although you just feel suspicious that someone may have stolen your passwords, don’t doubt and take the action to alter your passwords immediately because every minute is valuable to avoid the harm.

Don’t do “Remember the password” without setting up a master password

If you like your frequent used browser to remember the passwords for you, don’t forget to set up a master password first to protect your data.

Avoid typing your passwords on any devices that are not yours

This is especially important while you need to access your bank accounts. Any hacker is capable to log all the keystrokes and catch every single word you typed to steal your passwords when you use other people’s devices to key in sensitive information.  

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Here is the common question for many people “how to become a successful bookmaker?”. Just like any other businesses, there are some little secrets behind all the stories about the success, and we are going to share with you. 

Dedication

If you are not ready to dedicate the whole self into your own business, don’t even dream about how successful you will be because hard work is required and it’s always the key to reach the final success. Actually, it’s not really a secret because everyone knows that building a successful business needs the dedication of time and heart.

However, the real secret here is to find the correct people to work hard with you side by side. Because trying to do all the work by only one person and even micromanaging the whole business is totally the inefficient approach. It’s quite important to hire someone with skills (if you can) to be in charge of “heavy duty” of the work, then you can focus on another important task such as expanding your players list.

High Quality Platform

It’s important to give your customer the best service because every bookmaker sells a “product” which is called betting lines. Having a high quality platform means to provide a great variations of betting choices with the sharpest lines so your customers stay happy spending money with you.

Technology

If your goal is to be successful, then you should make the good use of the advanced technology. You shouldn’t keep writing down all the bets on paper, but have the assistance of the speedy servers, mobile capabilities, the best betting software, top security system and 24/7 skilled support team to work with you together.

Setting goals

You should at least set a short or medium term while starting out your online business. You don’t need to begin with a big goal right away such as building a self-owned solid online sportsbook. Simply take your own pace and do it considering your capacities and make the approachable goals for you and even your business.

Pay Per Head solution

This probably is the most important and critical secret that we want to mention to you. Price Per Head is the leading pay per head company with more than 20 years of expertise in this industry. We have skilled support team working for you 24/7, detailed reports for your business analysis, diverse betting options, the sharpest lines and advanced technology so you can gain the profits with ease.

And the best part is with only a tiny weekly fee per each active player, you can obtain all these amazing services mentioned above to help your bookmaking business to grow. Don’t hesitate and just join Price Per Head now!

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If you are interested in having a bookmaking business, you must be very curious about how much money you may have to prepare before starting out this business journey. To be honest, a huge amount of money is not required but it might be easier if you can have a certain funds with you since you might need to pay your players when they win the bets.

So, what is the approximate amount?

Let’s put some examples in math and you may know better how much money you’ll need. If you have 10~20 players who want to bet with you and you set the maximum wager limit on each of them as $1000 per game, you would need to prepare at least $10000 as a start-up funds. Why? Because some of your players may simply get lucky within the first couple of weeks and win the bets and you’ll still need to pay them. Besides, players who bet between $500~1000 a game can easily win thousands of dollars a week. To be more specific, for a player who normally bets $1000 a game to win $3000, he just needs to win 3 games during that particular week.  

Betting limits

Therefore, it’s very important to properly set up the betting limits if you don’t have that much of funds to risk while starting out the business. You just simply inform your players the limits will be $250 or less for now and then raise the limits little by little once you successfully build trust and comfort with your players.

Starting small

In the case that you only have less than 10 players to start your bookmaking business, and you plan to set up the limits as $300 or lower per game. Then your funds could be very minimal. For example: If there is only a couple of players betting with you and they’re betting small as you limited, then a smaller funds like $500~1000 will be probably more than enough to get started.

Long-term result

As the long-term results, players are going to lose eventually when they gamble on sports. They might not immediately start losing the money during the first weeks betting with you, but you will soon reach the point that you don’t need to prepare extra money on the side and just simply collect the losses from your players and use part of them to pay the winning ones.

Our recommendations

Undoubtedly, more money you could have set aside for paying your winning players, the better prepared you will be, and the bigger swings you’ll be ready to deal with. You have to be prepared that players are going to win sometimes and they need to win sometimes for not losing their interest on gambling. (You may not expect that they rapidly run out of the money and not able to continue betting more and even lose a long-term contributor for you right?)

However, do not feel discouraged if you don’t have big funds to start out the business at the beginning. Instead, this means you should cautiously set up with a lot smaller limits on your players and also build up your online business slowly.

Another useful suggestion for new bookies is to make the good use of Pay Per Head software solution like Price Per Head provided. There is a feature that you can set up max payout amount for all kinds of wagers. Which allows the bookmakers to control the max payout of every wagers that their players place and helps to protect themselves against players winning more than they can afford to pay.

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As we discussed previously that your mobile device contains all your personal information like your current location, contact list, emails, conversations, messages, travel plan and so much more. And the apps you installed to the devices are the infiltrators to your personal space and some of them are quite nosier. Let us list out the worst apps and then you would realize how dangerous you are putting your own privacy on risks.

Facebook

Facebook tracks everything across its app, messenger and website. Not only your online activities, posts, pictures but also your log off time is recorded. It requires almost every permission from you to get the access to your Contact lists, Call history, Text messages, Camera, Microphone, Internal storage, Wi-Fi and Location. In other words, its app wants full control of your devices and claims it’s mandatory for the needs to properly run all the functionalities.

Besides, Facebook knows exactly when you logged in, how much time you spent on its platform, where you have been, what you browse and are interested and even what you have purchased. They collect all this information and then serve you the targeted ads. What does this mean? It means that Facebook has leaked its user data through numerous breaches and it makes your personal info insecure and exposed.

Messenger

Facebook Messenger is the worst because it doesn’t even use end-to-end encryption for the conversations by default and not many users know how to access this hidden feature. Your personal messages may probably be stored in plain text on their servers and any employee with login credentials can get the data easily if he/she has the intention.

The owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, confesses that the algorithm routinely scans and moderators reads all clients’ messages, hyperlinks and pictures in order to block any improper or suspicious ones which don’t comply with company policy.

It’s true that these measures will stop fake news and illegal content from spreading; however, you can’t just trust them 100% to use your information only for good purpose. You should keep in mind that Facebook:

• Saved all customers’ logins data in plain text
• Logged text messages and phone calls without seeking the permission from their users
• Has been breached in a few occasions
• Requested for users’ email passwords to spam their contacts

Weather Apps

All these fancy weather apps want to access your location. It does sound pretty logical that it needs to know your current location in order to tell you the weather. However, after you grant them the permission to track your location, the app does the tracking 24/7 and even sells your information to the advertisers. Here are the examples of the mentioned application:

• AccuWeather
• WeatherBug
• The Weather Channel App

In fact, it’s not just limited to the weather apps you should worry about your privacy. It can be any other app getting your information and then presents the location-based news or bombs you with tons of advertisings such as local restaurants recommendations. There is no guarantee that your location data would be handled properly nor be leaked or sold for any purpose.

Online Mobile Games

Multiplayer games are based on interaction and players engagement. You can complete quests, get level-up, solve puzzles, and have fun together with your friends and family. But there are games which overly request the access to get your personal data that you should be more careful such as Words with Friends.

Zynga, the company created Words with Friends, famous FarmVille and a lot of successful games, tracks and logs all kinds of personal information as below list:

• username
• first name / last name
• biographic age
• birthday
• gender
• email
• contacts list
• all in-game purchases and details
• everything players posted within the message boards
• chat history and messages
• Facebook ID
• physical location

Besides, they also use cookies, beacons, pixel tags, clear gifs, and device identifiers to track your information such as:

• IP locations
• Computer or mobile device type that you are using to play their games
• Operating system version
• Language
• Device identifiers
• Browser type
• Viewed pages and URLs

Think about all this information you have to provide like mentioned above just because you like to play the online scrabble game? Of course, Zynga is not the only popular company within online mobile game industry and there are also lots of developers tracking their players’ information and then sell it to the highest bidder for self’s benefits. What if the sold data is a piece of very important information of yours?

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