Tuesday, September 25, 2007

10 Tips to protect personal information

www.truste.org
The first thing it says is to protect your computer with anti virus and spyware. This article is also informing you to be more careful on the websites you open. Also to make sure to update,check, and even sometimes get rid of some of your unneeded cookies. These cookies are randomly put onto your hard drive when you are not even aware of it. Everytime you open a web page or a link to a site a cookie is documented into your data base. Keeping your inportant information such as credit card and social security numbers are also thing that are not being managed like they should be. The common persons uses these numbers mostly in purchasing items, online banking, and college campuses. These are the three places where hackers know they can get in and find the information they need.

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