National Data Privacy Day – Do These Things

National Data Privacy day is a day to make positive and effective efforts to protect the privacy of your personal data.

The single most significant way for individuals to do this is threefold.

1. Change your passwords to stronger, more complicated ones.
2. Use two level access wherever it is offered.
3. Install and keep an Anti-Malware program up to date.

Hacking and breaking into corporate and government databases is being accomplished by young kids, cyber crooks, and foreign governments. our privacy is also affected by companies that sell our personal contact information. Hacking is happening not only to corporate and business systems; it is happening to individuals.

My computer was infected just days ago and it took several days to get it working again. I saw it early and could stop it from getting worse because I am familiar with the symptoms. Many users ignore symptoms and they accelerate to the point where data is compromised.

Email is the first program hackers go for. It gives them the information that they use to get access to your bank and other financial accounts.

There is a lot at stake.

Change the way you protect your computer.