We are living in this digital world of 21th century where it is extremely hard for us not to expose our personal datas such as account numbers, credit card numbers and passwords to others. The growing number of constantly evolving security threat make our data exposed to the risk of misuse and lost. Therefore, it is important for internet user like us to take appropriated steps to safeguard our data’s.
Here are some suggestions from me to protect yours data from those threats.
- Keep your personal data off your computer. Many of us like to save our personal or financial data in our computer and keep the computer on for the whole day. This may exposed our data to the threat to steal by others such as hacker. It is recommended to have a external storage device such as pen drive to store our personal data and plug in to computer only when you need it. This step may help you to prevent your datas to be stolen by others.
- Have difference and complicated password. I believe many of us share our password for many difference sites. It is understandable, it is not going be easy to memorizing all those passwords and may get confuse on it, but definitely not only one. Beside, you may need to create a complicate password by including numbers, alphabets and also symbols. This will make unauthorized access to your account extremely hard.
- Clear transaction records in your browser. When we have done our online transaction, there will be some temporary file downloaded and may be unauthorized use by other. So, whenever you have done an online transaction such as online banking, remember to delete the temporary files and history record.
- Installed antivirus and keep it up-to-date. If your computer are attached by virus and all your data is stored inside it, that’s it, if you are lucky, u may restore part of it. It is important to have a good antivirus such as AVG, Kaspersky in yours computer and make sure they are keep up-to-date to the latest virus or Trojan horse. I believe many of us have antivirus software, but what about antispyware? It is important to have an antispyware also to prevent those cyber thieves to steal our data for unethical use.
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