Protect our personal/financial data now

How many day you can live without computer or internet? Nowadays, computer and internet have already become a necessary part of our life. It seems that everything relies on computer and internet now such as communication, entertainment and business transactions. Therefore, a lot of our personal data (passwords, records or confidential information) are stored either on our own computer or on someone else’s system. Nobody can guarantee that these data can be stored safely as there are many problem of cyber security now. Have you heard the news about credit card numbers or personal data was stolen by outsider? If you don’t want to be one of the victims of these cases, here are some steps we found from website that can help us to protect our data:

1. Use a strong password to protect access to your data.
2. Use and maintain anti-virus software/spyware and a firewall.
3. Regularly scan your computer and keep software up to date.
4. Avoid unused software programs
5. Dispose of sensitive information properly.

Want to know more? Go to HERE for further information.

Besides above steps, we can provide some tips that based on our experiences. Set a new password regularly for accessing your own computer. Some people like to save their password in computer such as msn password It create a risk that other people can sign in your msn and chat with your friends. Next, do not open or reply the unknown email, website or any online request. These requests might contain some virus/ Trojans that disclose your personal data to someone else. In addition, do not tell any password (e.g. Credit card password) to your friends through internet.

This is our tips, how about you?
Do you have any good tips in protecting our personal/financial data? Tell us ~

Few months ago, there is a big news which happened in Hong Kong entertainment industry. A famous celebrity, Edison Chen’s personal data was stolen by someone else and uploaded it to internet. According to the news, Edison Chen saved his personal data in his computer. One day his computer had some problems and he sent it to the computer shop for repairing. The computer shop’s worker found those data and copied it and uploaded to internet. There is a problem here, how we can protect our personal data when we want to repaired our computer? Our answer is:

DO NOT SAVE ANY CONFIDENTIAL DATA IN OUR COMPUTER!
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