Thursday, June 19, 2008

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


Nowadays, the threat of online security has always trouble the user of inter net. It is a serious matter for internet user regardless of who you are as long as you have given out your private information such as name, credit card number or even bank accountnumber. Its say so because the moment you give out you information on the web, you are actually expose at the danger of losing personal data or theft of important data which maybe in form of business information, cash at your bank.

Furthermore, some of the illegal activities including hack into internet user’s computer through malicious software. Typically, these malicious software including virus, worm, rookit and Trojan horse application. These software are always can be found at the website that is more likely being trust by public to be visit even user surf the business website or download something from the web.

Also, the ‘private’ information of the user can also being track back notwithstanding the file has been deleted at the ‘recycle bin’. These fact show us that the data are actually available publicly for the ‘hacker’ once the data have been store in the computer.
In fact, the Trojan horse applications are also hard to be found through the software. For the internet user, the way to be protected from online threat including acquire a antivirus software product and also a firewall application. The benefit of using a firewall, is that even if your system were to become compromised, the design of the firewall's rules would prevent the connections from being allowed through it.

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