Friday, June 20, 2008

How to safeguard our personal and financial data?

Nowadays it is important for us to safeguard our personal and financial data from outsider. There are because people can steal these information for illegal usage. It is very danger for us to disclose our personal and financial data online. But for those users who really need to disclose it online, they can actually subscribe some antivirus to safeguard their data. For example, Crypto Heaven allows your group to send encrypted e-mail, securely backup and share files, pictures, charts, business documents, and any other form of electronic media through a secure environment.

If you use instant messages to convey sensitive business or personal information, you are inviting big, big trouble. In total, there are millions of users using instant messages for business purpose daily. Password theft and identity theft were extremely common in instant messages. You can actually secure your data by setting password at least 12 characters long, set a password that cannot found in English dictionary, set password with numbers and special characters ( i.e. @, $, %, &, *, ^, etc.), password should not use name of your dog, your I/C number, telephone number. Besides, you can also use Internet Sweeper to erases the cache, history, cookies, addresses, recent documents list, and temporary Files.

To safeguard personal and financial data, you should also clean your computer tracks. But when we delete a file from our system and remove from recycle bin, the contents can still be retrieved by someone who is knows what they are doing. Super Shredder helps to delete files using Gutmann and NISPOM (DoD), but can be completely customized to give you all the security and/or performance you may need. It can receive files via drag-and-drop onto the application or the icon, selecting files from inside the program, command line, and can even add a shortcut to your 'Send To' menu inside the Windows Explorer so it's simple to delete files in a secure and convenient fashion. The Eraser program securely deletes files from your computer by overwriting the data many times.

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