How to safeguard our personal and financial data?

Here have few approaches on how to safeguard our personal and financial data. FIRSTLY, choose your PIN number wisely. DO NOT use your birth date or child's name as your PIN number or password. SECONDLY, be careful when using ATM machine and be aware those seems interested in your transaction. Use your free hand to shield the keypad when entering PIN. THIRDLY, be cautious when providing personal information via internet that you don't know or haven dealt with before even its say important to know to update your information. Besides that, you must ACT QUICKLY if you know your personal information have been used and immediately review your credit reports, place a fraud alert on your accounts, close any accounts opened or used fraudulently or file a report with the police. In order to safe your financial information, you should LOG OUT properly after finish access the website. Access may not be terminated if you simply close or minimize your browser or type in a new web address when you’re done using your online account. In addition, install antispyware and antivirus software. Symantec, Norton, Avg antivirus are popular used by computer users. It cleans computer and protect personal information, financial data and etc. Lastly, it is safer using own computer to access brokerage account than using public computer. Public computer may contain software that capture password to providing that information to others at your expense. If you do use public computer, be sure to DELETE your “Temporary Internet Files” or “Cache” and clear all of your “History” after you log off your account. You should also DOUBLE CHECK to make sure that no one else has attached any device or added programs to your computer without your knowledge or consent.