Sunday, February 8, 2009

How to safeguard our personal and financial data?

Nowadays the number of crime on stealing personal and financial data from outsider is increased. We should put more attention on how to safeguard our own personal and financial data from outsider. It is very dangerous for us to disclose our personal data in the internet. For those users who want disclose some of his or her personal data in internet he or she can subscribe anti virus software such as Crypto Heaven to safeguard the file. Crypto Heaven allow us to send encrypted email, share file such as picture and business document and securely backup in secure environment. Beside that there is others way to safeguard our data so that the hackers not able to access our personal and financial data.

Here is some way that we can safeguard our personal data,

We can use strong password. What kind of password we call it as strong password? A strong password is more that 12 words and it include Digit (0-9), Alphabetic (A-Z), and also some of the special character (@,#,^,<,>,$). Besides that the password that you set is hard to get from dictionary. For example: 10y@o$h3ng1987. Passwords such as Dog, 123456 or yys19 are not recommended to use. By having strong password hackers is not easy or not able to access our personal and financial data easily.

Besides that we can have Credit Card Holder can subscribe paypal to secure his or her Credit Card Number. It is because when we buy things from internet the seller charge us by have Credit Card Transaction, so we need to give them out credit card number so he or she can have transaction toward us. Paypal can secure the Credit Card Holder by having the transaction with the seller without giving out credit card number to the seller. 

Here is some others suggestion,

·      Avoid clicking on pop-up ads or downloading information from unknown sites.

·      Use your own computer, instead of a work or public machine, to access financial and other sensitive personal information.

·      Avoid giving your personal information to “cold callers” and other unknown parties online, via e-mail and over the phone.

·      Resist using free wireless connections — particularly in cafes, airports and other public places — to check personal information.

·      Use and update antivirus and antispyware software

This is my opinion to secure your personal and financial data. Well there will be others solution more to secure our personal and financial.

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