How to safeguard our financial and personal data

Internet and computer are the important tools in this new age, more and more people are doing their personal activities through online such as e-payment to pay their bills and online shopping. We need to fill up our personal information such as names, addresses, phone number, bank account and credit card number in the online register forms before we proceed online payment. Therefore, It is not easy to not to share our personal data through online with others or stolen by others if the informations are not be protected. Hence, it is so important that we need to protect our financial and personal data online from being one of the victims.

Here are some tips for safeguard our financial and personal data:

• Do not use the password that easy figured out by others. Many people prefer to use the password that easy for memorize, therefore many people like to use own name or date of birth as the password. The simple password is using, the easy the hacker figured it and log on to our financial and personal data.

• Avoid to save the financial and personal data in the computer. Keep all the personal data such in the computer such as name, addresses, bank account number and password, it may easy for us to refer when need to use it. But it is very easy to steal by others when they using the computer. In stead of keep the data in the computer, we can save our personal data in the thumb drive and put in the safe place, plug into the computer when we need to use the data.

• Use the sucure internet browser when we are online. IE and Mozilafox are the most common browsers used by the online users. By using a secure internet browser can help to protect against browser hijacking, etc.

• Make sure anti-virus and anti-spyware are up to date. Installing the PC security software can protect from viruses, spyware, hacker, phishing scams and etc. Therefore, we should installed trusted anti-virus software program like Kaspersky, McAfee or free anti-virus software to protect our PC from online fraud.

• Always access the Internet from behind a firewall. A firewall adds a security layer between our PC and the Internet, and protecting our personal information stolen by hackers, destroying our files, or using our PC to attack others.

• Check the credit report frequently. We should check our credit history up to date . This is one of the best ways to find out if someone is using our personal finance information without our permission.