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How to safeguard our personal and financial data?
 Computer and Internet are very common for us. We use both of them not only save our personal data and also use it for online financial services to do financial transactions. Even so, most of people will consider that internet is not a safety place for us nowadays. By reason of hackers can easily hack into our password and do any unauthorized transactions. Protecting ourselves from theft and hacker on the internet is very important to prevent our privacy information from exposure. Have you do some safeguard to protect your personal and financial data?
Here are some ways to secure your personal and financial data that I have found.  1. Critical element to avoid online fraud: Prevention is the most critical element. Here are three important preventions:
(i) Prevent simply to throw financial documents and paperwok with personal information.
(ii) Prevent to give out personal information on the phone, through mail, or over the Internet.
(iii) Prevent to ordering online and review reports, files through unsecure web pages.
 2. Choose your PIN wisely: When you want to set PIN that you will remember, by the way you need to consider that the PIN is a clever hacker could not figure out. The combination of numbers and symbols may more security. We should avoid choosing our date of birth or IC numbers as our PIN.
3. Protect your computer’s security: Use as many tools as you can to guard your computer information from any intrusion and destruction. Tools that we can use are anti-virus software, spyware, firewalls and etc. If you have downloaded files, documents or free mp3 music online, you are at risk due to these programs have the ability to track our Internet usage habits and even steal such personal information. Protecting your computer’s security is the basic and much more important way.
4. Secure Your Network: If you have a wireless network at home or work, make sure that you secure it. Hacker can gain access to anything you do over an unsecured network in a matter of seconds. If you look at the documentation for your wireless router, you'll be able to find out how to lock your router and encrypt your information. It won't affect the way you use your wireless network, but it will keep intruders from getting a hold of your information.
5. Avoid hackers and thefts through E-mail: E-mail is not only one of the most popular and effective online tools, it can also be one of the most dangerous. Never read and respond for unsolicited E-mail, no matter how legitimate they appear to be. And never share your E-mail account password and forward an unsolicited E-mail.
6. Secure transmissions through Secure Socket Layer (SSL):We can use encryption technology to transmit information between sender and receiver. This protects data in 3 ways which are Authentication, Encryption and Data Integrity. Authentication ensures that our conversation is with the right party and prevents another computer from impersonating us. Encryption scrambles transferred data so it cannot be read by unauthorized parties. Data integrity verifies that the information we send is not altered during the transfer.References….
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