*EC~4~US*: How to Safeguard Our Personal and Financial Data?

Internet is a public network that connecting computers around the world. It is no more a strange word for us. It is also playing the main role is our daily life, especially for the teenagers. We can access internet to browse what we want to find through the search engine, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. After that, there will pop out a lot of information for us. Besides, we can use internet to expand our social networking by using Facebook, Friendster and so on.

However, some website will request our personal detail and register as a member before we log in that site. We know that internet is not a safe place because the hacker are possible to gain the data from the website. The information they may gain are account numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers and the others.

Thus, the safeguard for our personal and financial data are prime for us. There are several approach can come from us on how to safeguard our personal and financial data.

1) Password Protection.

We need to have a strong password to protect our access data. A strong password combination will be longer and contain alphabet, number and punctuation. Besides, we need to avoid using birthday or hand phone number become the password number because that will easy to guess by third party. Then, we should not reveal our password to anyone and change it from the time by time.

2) Encryption

It is the most effective way to reach data security because the change of data into a secret code. Your information can be protected if you had encrypt before send it out.

3) Credit card amount restriction

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When we want to do online purchasing, we should use a credit card which will meet the low limit to avoid scammers.

4) Installation of internet security software

i) Antivirus: It will against those viruses that will be harmful to your computer. It should also have automatic update functions in order to protect you from the new viruses that frequently reveal in the internet.

ii) Antispyware: This feature should be included in the internet security software because Adware and Spyware are dangerous programs. They can enable website developer to access your files in your computer. It should also be able to update itself frequently.

iii) Firewall: This program will help you prevent from hackers and viruses that possible to enter your computer.

That was just few examples had show on the front. In fact, there are a lot of ways to safeguard our personal when we bear ourself in the world of internet. However, we also need to restrict ourself that is do not share too much information when we are playing social network because it will increase the risk which is hacked by other person.