Cyber-Bargains

Do you have a proper safeguard on your personal and financial data? Most of the people like to rely on the computer to save their data information while some of us like to make an online transaction in buying and selling through the Internet. But do u really careful in protecting your personal data from stolen, losing or misuse by the intruders? Lets me gives you some useful tips that may help to prevent your data from damaging.

Install and maintain anti-virus and a firewall – Viruses and Trojan horses that may lose or modify our data on the computer can be protecting by the anti-virus software. However, a firewall is a software program that designed to remove the bad people and allow the good people. Besides that, if we have an older computer or using a dial up, we may need to separately buy a firewall and install ourselves instead of a modem that have an added layer of protection which using in nowadays.


Using encryption key to store confidential data – In order to prevent or avoid unintended disclosure, we can use the encryption key to stored data. It means that we coded the information into unreadable form of characters, so that nobody can open our data. In addition, we can protect our data by encrypting the whole storage drive or select whichever folder as we want. If we want to ensure our data is more secure, then we should create a unique and a longer encryption key. The longer the code, the more secure the data.



Never open a mystery attachment – Do not open any link or an attachment that sending by unknown parties. It is because those of the attachments may contain viruses that will harm our data or else directly to the computer. Another reason is that if we open a link that contains viruses, it maybe will affect our personal or financial information without our notice.





Secure the network – Now everyone has Internet to make an online access to search for the information. But some of us may use a wireless network to online. So we have to make sure that we secure it, because an unsecured network would cause a hacker to gain access to anything we do. In order to be safe, we should lock our router and encrypt our information by keeping away the intruders.



Do not put private information on public computer –Nowadays, most of the people like to go to the cyber café or any other wireless zone to access for the information that they want. But they do not realize that the public computer is the most unsafely to use. Why I say so? It is because if you access your private account at the cyber café, then you have to make sure you log out completely from your accounts, otherwise another users would try to access into your personal information. Try to avoid save login information like username and password into public computer.