Friday, June 26, 2009

How to safeguard our personal and financial data


Due to the reason of so happen that our personal and financial data are esposed to risk of being hacked, we have to take consideration in safeguarding our data.

Ways to safeguard personal and financial data:

(1) Do not give away any valuable or sensitive persoanl information on Myspace or Facebook profile or within messages to other members of the network.

(2) Do not click on any links in social network messages from people that you do not know.

(3) Use one of the many antivirus, antispyware, and firewall programs on the market.

(4) Pay attention to the messages from Windows that pop up on your screen. They often contain helpful security information that many users overlook.

(5) Beware of e-mail that you received. No reputable company will ask for password, account number, or other log in information via e-mail or instant message.

(6) Upgrade the browser to the most current version.

(7) Update virus scanning utility on a regular bases so that you can protect your system from the lastest computer virus ciculating.

(8) Do not open e-mail attachments from the e-mail addresses that you do not know.

(9) Implement and stick with an automated backup system, where you regularly monitor the log files and run test restore jobs.

References:
- How Safe is Critical Data

2 comments:

  1. yeah.. financial data is very important.. so it is important to protect our data

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  2. erm... i think there are some steps you can add in too. Remember the video u post in the previous post? "it is MY EMAIL" haha, so i think an unsecured network might be one of the factors too. Thus, you might can add in these steps:
    1. secured your wireless network through setting passwords
    2. try to not to make any online transaction through unsecured network, which usually can be find in cafe.
    there might be many others steps too, hope this could enrich your post's information.

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