How to safeguard financial & personal data

Financial data and personal data are confidential data for every person. It consists a lot of private information that cannot be known by others. Nowadays, there is a lot of victim that fall under online fraud or identity theft. Hence the fraud or identity thefts cases are increasing such as passwords, bank account numbers or credit card numbers were stolen. Therefore, it is important that we use some necessary ways to safeguard the data which is needed for the personal data to be secured.

Firstly, you have to choose passwords that would be difficult for someone who knows you to guess. Many people like to use their birth date or phone number as their password, this is definitely wrong. It is because not only the hacker but your close friends also can be easily figure out the password and hack into your account. Besides that, make the passwords more complicated and different for every different website. So it is hard for a person to crack the password and the person is unable to steal all the financial or personal information.

Next, keep your financial and personal data off your computer. Try to avoid for keeping some bank account numbers or passwords in the computer. It is easy for a hacker or spyware program to hack into your computer and detect all the sensitive data. Hence we should buy an external hard disk or thumb drive to store all the confidential and sensitive data. It is simple and effective way to prevent data theft. Thus we only have to plug in the drive whenever we need to refer on the data.


Thirdly, install anti-virus or anti-spyware software into the computer. Not only that, you should also keep the software up to date so it is able to detect all the virus or spyware in the computer. Without an anti-virus software, any virus or worms can spoil all the information in the computer and steal it to earn money. As well as the data get stolen, the computer will also run slower if there is some virus or Trojan horse in the computer.

Last but not least, be more alert when take the computer for fixing. People simply trust technician and hence hand over the computer to them when something goes wrong. It is just a piece of cake where the technician can easily copy down all the personal data for themselves. So it is important that people should delete all their personal information before hand it to the technician. In another way, they can request the technician to come over to their house to fix the computer and you just watch as they do it.


Reference:

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/13-ways-to-protect-personal-data-from-online-fraud-and-identity-theft/zh/