The review on post on Internet Security from My E-Commerce blog

From My E-Commerce blog post, I actually know what the common password those account users are using. Internet security is very important to safeguard our private information which located in some place like online banking website, email, company intranet and so on.

I experienced before that my email have been hacked.
Many of my friends actually experienced before. When we are offline, the hacker will use our account to spread viruses to other user stated that this website is exciting and good. Once the other user press on the website, the same thing will happen to them too.

How to choose a safe password?

There are few steps to choose a safe password.

1. Think some thing that other people don’t know such as when you bought your car.

2. When creating your password, put one or two letter in the middle of your password.Spacing and capitalization can make the password more secure.
For example: 123 kFc 659

3. Once you satisfied with the password, you will not easily forget it. To ensure you remember the password, make few of your other account like Facebook, Friendster and MSN Hotmail to have a same password.

4. Do not write down your password anywhere that is visibly by anyone.

Warning: Numerical like mobile phone number and birthday taken as password can be easily can be guess by third party. Password that is too long are easily being forgotton. So, choose your password carefully and wisely.

Phishing: Examples and its prevention methods

What is Phishing??? Whether the word come from "Fishing"???

"Phishing = fishing + phreaking"

Phishing is a new type of network attack where the attacker creates a replica of an existing Web page to fool users (e.g., by using specially designed e-mails or instant messages) in order to attract user's attention to update and submit their personal secret information such as financial status, password data and so on to their service provides’ Web site.

The word ‘Phishing’ is initially emerged in 1990s. The earlyhackers have used ‘ph’ to replace ‘f’ to produce a new words in the hacker’s community. Phishing is a new word produced from ‘fishing’, it refers to the act that the attacker attract users to visit a faked website by sending them faked e-mails or instant messages, and steal the victim’s personal information such as user name,password, and national security ID, and etc.

They usually will attract users to visit their website to conform or modify your account number and password through the hyperlink provided in the e-mail.

Then, you will be linked to a faked website after clicking those links. The style, the functions performed, sometimes even the URL of these faked websites are similar to the real website. It is very difficult for you to know that you are actually visiting a faked website. If you insert the account number and password, the attackers then will successfully collect the information at the server side. This will enable them to access into user account and perform the next ation with those information.

Methods To Prevent Phishing Attack (such as Maybank and Public Bank cases mentioned above)

1) Never disclose any private information via internet even if you have received those emails from the bank.

2) Never respond to any phone call/ sms requesting your bank account details.

3) Never disclose your bank account details or Internet banking username and password to anyone

4) NEVER follow instructions from unknown parties to do banking transactions or make changes to your bank account details

In conclusion, users should take those methods to prevent phishing attack. It is because "PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURING"

Police alert!
Don't be a victim of phishing scams! Protect yourself from identity theft today..........

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

Nowadays, new generations are depending on the technology. Private photos and information are all save in their own computers. It makes life easy but also make them more risky. Their data could be stolen easily!

Cases such as Phishing e-mail targets local Internet banking users, Edison Chen Photo Scandal, Company Laptop been Stolen and School Employees' Personal Data Stolen. These cases reflects that data could be stolen by different ways such as data theft, phishing and laptop stolen.

There are types of threats and attacks that are harmful to our data.

1. Nontechnical attack -- phishing.

Details are available in http://t8g3.blogspot.com/2009/06/phishing-examples-and-its-prevention.html which posted by Kok Yong.

2. Technical attacks-- DoS attack, DDoS attack, Virus, Worm, Macro virus or macro worm and Trojan horse.

Denial-of-service attack

An attacker uses specialized software to send a flood of data packets to the target computer with the aim of overloading its resources. It may cuase a network to shut down, making it impossibke for users to access the site.

Virus

A piece of software code that insert itself into a host, including the operating systems, to propagate, it requires that its host program to be run to activate it.

Trojan Horse

A program that appears to have a useful function but taht contains a hidden function that presents a secuirty risk.

Beware of these threats and attacks as they are harmful to your data!

How to safeguard our personal and financial data

Nowadays, the Internet users are facing the problems that their personal and financial data has been stolen. There are many hackers would gain control of our data. Besides that, when surfing the Internet, there are some website which has virus. However, there may have some safeguards which can prevent their important data from being stolen.

By using the user name and password, which is the most common ways that people use to protect their data. Nevertheless, the password used must be longer because it provides greater security than the shorter one. Not only that, we also should change our password frequently in order to avoid others stolen our password.

To protect against some virus that are very harmful to our computer, we have to install the powerful antivirus software which can be bought from the shop. We also can download the antivirus software from the Internet which is free of charge. Usually the antivirus software has the automatic update feature which provides the better protection from the new virus that popping up from the Internet.

The antispyware and firewall are both safeguard which are very important for us to protect our data. The antispyware can prevent the unauthorised users access into our personal date in our computer. Besides that, the firewall can prevent the hackers from hacking our data.

So, these are some of the safeguard that can protect our data from being misusing.