Friday, June 26, 2009

How to safeguard personal and financial data??


Nowadays, computer has become an integral part of our life. We depend a lot on computer for both personal and official works. As network crime is increasingly spreading like a wild fire, most of the users start to worry about their personal and financial. There are hackers who keep looking for vulnerable computers so that they can hack in and steal confidential data such as log in id, password and etc. So, safeguard of personal and financial data is needed to prevent or mitigate the attacks.

The following are the tips to protect your personal data:

(I) Make your password hard to guess
You can use combination of words, numbers and punctuation to form your password and change them frequently (at least twice a year). You should prevent from using any single word or easy number combination such as your birthday or your pet’s name that make the criminal easy to guess your password.

(II) Back up your personal finance information
Creating a copy or back up of personal data is a sensible as it is the easier way to help you to recover your information if a virus destroys your computer. You shall back up all the important data on your computer and keep it in a secure place.

(III) Avoid disclosing confidential or finance information to scam perpetrators
Confidential and finance information is valuable. You shall not give out confidential information through the email or over the internet, unless you know with whom you are dealing with.



(IV) Biometric System
Biometric system refers to automatic identification based on their fingerprint. Biometric authentication can provide stronger personal binding of access rights to confidential information over the traditional method. It can ensure personal or confidential data linked exclusively to the right person.

(V) Make sure the website is secure
If you have launched the website that require you to provide personal information, you must check the details in the address bar of the browser start with ‘https’ (the ‘s’ stands for ‘secure’).


(VI) Make sure anti-virus and anti-spyware are installed and up-to-date
These software can protect your computer against the viruses. You can either buy excellent anti virus software like Kaspersky Anti Virus or free anti-virus like AVG to install in your computer to avoid being detected.
Besides, anti-spyware helps to protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware. So you must ensure your anti-spyware updated and keep up with the latest forms of spyware. Some popular anti-spyware are SpySweeper, Adware and etc.

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