Saturday, April 24, 2010

PREVENT OF BANK ACCOUNT HACKINGS

These days the hackers are looking for the ways to earn some money as well as destroying and making problem for the websites. One of these way is to penetrate the users bank account and transfer and steal money from their accounts. As we see nowadays most of us are doing our banking activities via internet so in case we won’t be precautious we may lose all our assets. There are some hints which might help us to prevent our bank accounts and credit card from being hacked. Some of them are as follows:
· Try to use OS like Linux instead of windows as this OS is the most vulnerable one.
· Try to use the most secure web browsers and email services.
· It would be necessary to install a firewall and antivirus program on your system.
· Using Wi-Fi connections just in the secure place like your office and your home.
· Encrypting all your valuable information on your hard drives including your bank account passwords.
· Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook can be another source of being hacked, so try to be very cautious while surfing these websites.
· Last but not least, try to use strong password by combining alphabets and numeric in your password.
As a conclusion the bank all over the world are trying to make their websites as much secure as they can, but still the carefulness of the costumers is required to decrease such the events.