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Sunday, June 22, 2008

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



The technologies today become more and more advance, some of the peoples are work at home via the internet but they now face a problem and they need to recognize that there is no impenetrable security on the Web. More and more, data management also moving to the internet and this may cause a greater security challenges. The common online security threats include viruses, spyware, adware, malware, hackers, Trojans and others. There has much software that can have many security layers, but the data protection is only as good as the website firewall and hackers still can get in and do damage.

Besides that, internet is not a safe place for the web users. Every unprotected online computer can be affected with the online security threats with only in 20 minutes. There are numerous security risks on internet that can lead you to serious financial loss, information theft and the attack on your computer. By the way, do you still think that our data upload to the Web are safe?

Although we can’t perfectly prevent the data stolen but we still have some ways to deal with these threats. As the following, do not open any email attachment from any unknown and unauthenticated source. Never reply to the emails whose identity you don't know. Protect your computer by installing up-to-dated antivirus and antispyware programs and regularly scan your computer with them. Never send your user names, bank account information, passwords and credit card details to someone via emails. Before doing online shopping through a website ensure the validity and repute of that website.

All of the tools cannot guarantee that your data are safety but you can try for it. If you need more information you can contact me or leave your question in our blog maybe we can help.

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