Every day we hear news reports in the mainstream media about
social network hacking,malware,malicious account takeovers and
protecting data. It doesn’t matter if you are the average Joe
Blow or a huge corporation like Burger King,everyone is being
targeted these days. Cyber criminals are searching for
everything from your banking and financial info to your
email,Facebook and other social networking passwords. Luckily
there are technologies and a few simple practices that can help
you stay safer online,as well as offline. Here are 5 Mandatory
Steps that you should follow for protecting data from hacking
and eavesdroppers…. 1. IMPORTANT:Use Strong Encryption To
Protect Your Files Encryption is the process of encoding a
message,or any other data,in such a way that eavesdroppers or
hackers cannot read it,but authorized parties can. Today there
are many options that provide both software and hardware
encryption solutions for protecting your data. TrueCrypt is a
free open source software that provides automatic,rea