How to safeguard our personal and financial data (0)
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 by , under Financial Data, Personal Data, Safeguard, Week 4
In a digital age, it's hard to avoid that share your personal data such as password, bank account number, credit card number. Just because nowadays most companies are prefer doing everything online just because to save cost. Unfortunately, some companies are not put in place the necessary stringent policies and procedures needed for protect the personal data in order to ensure the it is secure.
Here are some measures can be take to safeguard our personal and financial data:
1. keep your personal and sensitive data off you computer:
Virus or spyware programs are impossible to with you personal data if we don't store it on your computer.Thus it's simple and very effective, just try the best to keep the sensitive data off your computer. If there is necessary to keep it in electronic format for easy access, just simply store the sensitive files to a flash drive and keep it in a safe place.
2. Avoid saving credit card info to the any unauthorised website:
Many website e-commerce website today are always give the option to save the credit card info, so that we are not compulsary to type in all the information while we want to buy something. It can prevent that if someone eventually does hack to the website database and download thousands of credit card number, it may cause you suffer loses unconciously.
3. Do not use the same password for every account on the internet:
Internet user are always using the same id and password at every website. If you do so, you are actually doing a favour for hacker. Once a hacker figures our one password, they'll go ahead and try to see ifit works on any other site. Thus it's better to make sure passwords are different and more complicated, try to throwing in a number with symbol at the end will make it need a hundreds of times hard for a person to crack the passwords.
4. Always think before providing information when solicited:
If you ever get an email that has a link in it that requires ANY personal information, make sure you go to the web site yourself manually by typing in the address. Half the time links in emails point to fake addresses with very close names. Also, if you post items on sites like eBay or Craigslist, you will always be bombarded by scams from Nigeria, etc that sound way too good to be true (like someone would actually pay more for your item than what you listed it at)!!! And just because a web site exists does not mean it it legitimate! If you’ve never heard of the site before, just type it into Google once and see if anything like “XXX IS A SCAM” pops up!
5. Make sure the URL is start from "https" instead of "http":
The S can make it difference!! You'll notice that when you buy something from Amazon or another big site, once you being to checkout, the URL always starts with a "https". This means that the communication between your computer and their server is secure and encryted. If someone tries to read the data as it travels across the Internet, they won't be able to understand or decipher it. If you’re buying something from a smaller site and they don’t have HTTPS, just call them and buy it. Not worth risking data passing unencrypted over the net.
Here are some measures can be take to safeguard our personal and financial data:
1. keep your personal and sensitive data off you computer:
Virus or spyware programs are impossible to with you personal data if we don't store it on your computer.Thus it's simple and very effective, just try the best to keep the sensitive data off your computer. If there is necessary to keep it in electronic format for easy access, just simply store the sensitive files to a flash drive and keep it in a safe place.
2. Avoid saving credit card info to the any unauthorised website:
Many website e-commerce website today are always give the option to save the credit card info, so that we are not compulsary to type in all the information while we want to buy something. It can prevent that if someone eventually does hack to the website database and download thousands of credit card number, it may cause you suffer loses unconciously.
3. Do not use the same password for every account on the internet:
Internet user are always using the same id and password at every website. If you do so, you are actually doing a favour for hacker. Once a hacker figures our one password, they'll go ahead and try to see ifit works on any other site. Thus it's better to make sure passwords are different and more complicated, try to throwing in a number with symbol at the end will make it need a hundreds of times hard for a person to crack the passwords.
4. Always think before providing information when solicited:
If you ever get an email that has a link in it that requires ANY personal information, make sure you go to the web site yourself manually by typing in the address. Half the time links in emails point to fake addresses with very close names. Also, if you post items on sites like eBay or Craigslist, you will always be bombarded by scams from Nigeria, etc that sound way too good to be true (like someone would actually pay more for your item than what you listed it at)!!! And just because a web site exists does not mean it it legitimate! If you’ve never heard of the site before, just type it into Google once and see if anything like “XXX IS A SCAM” pops up!
5. Make sure the URL is start from "https" instead of "http":
The S can make it difference!! You'll notice that when you buy something from Amazon or another big site, once you being to checkout, the URL always starts with a "https". This means that the communication between your computer and their server is secure and encryted. If someone tries to read the data as it travels across the Internet, they won't be able to understand or decipher it. If you’re buying something from a smaller site and they don’t have HTTPS, just call them and buy it. Not worth risking data passing unencrypted over the net.
