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Every platform has its bad sheep and Steemit is not an exception. Number of users on Steemit are increasing day by day but not all of them are computer geeks. So to target these newbies is comparatively easy.

I would share my findings to help you secure your Steemit account:

**Phishing Attack**
It is one of most prominent attack by Black Hat Programmers and i personally saw many cases of it on Steemit. It works in a very tricky way. To perform major operations on Steemit, you have to  login again with your master key or WIF. That's good for security purpose but you first have to make sure that you are currently entering your credentials on Steemit.

![phishing_2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmb5pPFNxa8gn4tJncDHr1jnPDbiur4H5bMCpCTisQin7w/phishing_2.jpg)


 What happens is that you are presented with an interface similar to that  of Steemit login. You think everything is just normal and blindly give your credentials to the hacker. Never do that again. You have to make sure that URL is correct and green connection of secure is visible on your browser.

**Master Key Leak**
The only rules you would have read when registering new account  were **never lose your keys** but still it happens. You have to be extra careful whenever you have to use your Master key. Always use posting or active key for third-party apps. You can find them in your account's **Wallet> Permissions** tab. 
If you enter your master key by mistake  in memo while transfer than without wasting any second, quickly reset your Master key.

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I hope all of you stay safe on Steemit. 

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Image credits : [1](http://cdn.nanalyze.com/uploads/2017/04/AI-CyberSecurity-Teaser.jpg), [2](https://www.tracesecurity.com/images/uploads/Blog/phishing_2.jpg), [3](https://steemit.com/steemit/@deividas/what-come-s-trending-on-steemit-nowdays)