3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Hacked. Better Way to Protect Data!
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12 July 2019 John Weaver Senior Program Developer
Summary
Recently, Yahoo was reported the biggest data breach in 2017. 3 million users account information has been stolen. Here we should pay more attention on how to provide overall protection to our personal data. Get solution here!
Yahoo has suffer from several times of data breach. Recently, the data bread reported by Verzon, Yahoo’s parent company, that Yahoo actually failed to protect all 3 billion email accounts under watch.
This time, it will have wide ranging impacts across the whole world and Internet. People tend to use same or similar security questions and password across multiple accounts for different services online. Depending on how the hackers or darknet buyers use the stolen information, many corporations can become victims.
After facing many times of ransomware attacks and privacy leak, we should pay attentions on how to provide overall protection to our personal data so as to minimize the possibility of privacy leak. No matter you are a computer newbie or professional, we can make it with the following methods:
Method 1: Install Up-to-data Anti-virus Software and Security Software
Installing antivirus software is always recommended. Besides, the most important thing is that update the antivirus software whenever it releases new version.
Method 2: Create Backup for Important Data and System Regularly
Sometimes it is safe and essential to make backup for all important data. Data lost situation can not only cause by virus, but also other reasons like hard disk failure, accidentally delete, etc. We would not be panic if we have backup when we meet such situation.
For some computer users who are not so familiar with the backup software or do not like the built-in backup tools in Windows, we recommend entirely free backup software Renee Becca to you.
With Renee Becca, you can create auto backup schedules for different backup options. Built-in 5 different backup schemes helps you update the backup files automatically. Free you from making backup and update regularly.
Method 3: Encrypt Important Data with Password
If classify and personal data saved in our computer is encrypted with password, there is no need to worry about it even others log into your computer without authorization.
Professional data protection software – Renee File Protector helps you make it with powerful and advanced encryption technology.
It can helps you password protect data in local disk, shared folder and even external memory devices.
Don’t enough? You can also protect threats from unknown external memory devices and with Renee USB Block.
Method 3: How to Recover Important Data once Infected
Once computer gets infection, the only way you can do is to clean up all your system. At this moment, you may want to find a possible method which can help you recover important data from computer disk. Renee Undeleter, a professional data recovery software, is here to help.