Information Security in the Big Data Era

In recent years, the era of big data has been growing rapidly. "Prism Gate" has also made information security an important issue. In terms of personal information security, some methods will be shared below.

Individuals should keep three sets of passwords, used separately

Nowadays, the Internet has been in our daily life at any time: want to shop, shopping through the Internet at home can buy any product around the world; want to communicate with friends across the ocean, through the Internet instant messaging tools can be achieved Instantly communicate and discuss work; through the internet we are also able to share food beauty and mood with friends.

However, more and more appear on the Internet in life, but also one after another broke the negative news such as "End of the World community 40 million user information leaks", "Sogou browser suspected leaks" and other related negative news , Once again to see the importance of personal privacy on the Internet.

Some people after research also share some of the ways to protect the privacy of personal information.

Individuals should set three sets of passwords

Chat, email, payment separately

The first social networking site in China, End of the World community , was attacked by hackers in 2011. The overnight disclosure of 40 million user accounts, passwords, email addresses and other information was the biggest leak in China's Internet history. Until now, some developer technical communities have also been able to find out which user information was leaked at that time, that is, if those users whose information was exposed use the same account number and password without changing their account number or password, then they The personal information is still being exposed on the Internet.

"Different websites, mailboxes do need to set a different password, so as to avoid a website is black lead to the registration of email and password leak." 360 security expert Anyang suggested that users should set password password classification management, important accounts (such as commonly used Mail, online payment, chat account, etc.) must set a separate password. "If you can develop the habit of regularly changing your password, you can effectively prevent the leakage of your website database affecting your own account. In addition, your work email address is not used to register for an online account, which will endanger the enterprise information security after the password is leaked."

What kind of password setting security is relatively high?

"Individuals should set three sets of passwords and apply different scenarios, such as common set, mailbox set, capital transaction set, three sets of accounts, three sets of passwords and password complexity as far as numbers plus letters plus symbols." COCL, a well-known website operation and maintenance company in Hangzhou, said that the strength of the password of "letters + numbers + special symbols" is relatively high. Birthday, telephone number, simple digital combination and combination password strength are very low. It is better to avoid such information security password.

Develop regularly

Clean up the computer habits

Have you ever found a similar situation when you surfed the internet: Ads on many different websites that you've searched for. Do you realize that personal privacy information such as your hobbies, job characteristics, etc., is now exposed.

Domestic Internet advertising marketing company to take user cookie information cases, has been exposed, there are users suggested that you can use the "no track" browser to protect their privacy. Is this method reliable?

"The browser banning tracking function can forbid cookies from third-party websites such as advertising agencies, to a certain extent, reduce the risk of being tracked by the advertising platform and pushing accurate advertisements. However, since the cookie also has a positive effect of facilitating user login to an online account In a certain period of validity, no need to re-enter the account password to log in), and online advertising is one of the major profit models of Internet service providers, so most of the commonly used browsers are not prohibited from tracking. "360 security expert Ann Young said, One-size-fits-all "no-tracking" may result in the need to log in repeatedly over the Internet, unable to remember the inconveniences such as the progress of the game. In contrast, he also recommended that users use the computer to clean up features, set to automatically clean up the computer tracking cookies, cookies and advertising website shopping sites and other information to retain more valuable to the user cookie, so as to protect privacy, nor Affect daily use.

IE10 and above, Safari, Firefox22 and above browser is the default to open the "no tracking" function, users can also choose.