Saturday, June 21, 2008

The threat of online security: How safe is our data?

Few months ago, Edison Chen photo scandal shook the Hong Kong entertainment industry as it was involved various actresses in Hong Kong. In case this is the careless of Edison Chen, as during he sent his notebook to repair in a computer shop, they downloaded the photo illegally without the permission from Edison Chen.

So, back to here again with the topic. Now there is always the threat of online security in the business world. Besides that, for those personal, they might be beware of this threat as it might be unexpected.

To prevent our data be stolen, for example the notebook. May be for some purpose use, we might to protect that our notebook been stolen. As the most safety way, bring it and not leave it on the car or other places. For those businessmen, they might be keep their data which is private and confidential all the time. As do not keep it probably, their business competitors might have the chance to get the data of customer illegally and may be face a huge loss.

Besides that, some websites may require password whereby we need to set a strength password or else people who know you can break through on it. For my suggestion, do not put such kind of info like your identification card number, birthday date or some number which easy to remember as your password. For me, my password combine capital letter, small letter and number if required.

Finally, I just want remind that, not only poeple face threathen in reality world; maybe in the IT world, we must be aware also especially of the online security.

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