How to Prevent Facebook Data Leak?

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How to Prevent Facebook Data Leak?

29 June 2023 Amanda J. Brook Senior Product Manager

Summary
Facebook is the world's leading social networking blog site with 900 million users. In March 2018, the British and American media revealed that the information of 50 million users on Facebook was stolen by a company called "Cambridge Analytica". Then let's learn more about the details of this information leak and talk about how to prevent information leaks and other related issues.

Table of contents

1. Review of Facebook information leakage incident

2. How to transfer encrypted files with high security

1. Use Renee File Protector
2. Encrypt emails with Renee SecureSilo

I. Review of Facebook Information Leakage Incident

In 2014, 270,000 Facebook users reportedly downloaded a personality analysis test app on the platform; the app was created by psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan. The main gimmick of this software is “test personality, receive bonus”. Through a partnership between his company Global Scientific Research ( GSR ) and Cambridge Analytica, thousands of users took personality tests and agreed to have their data collected for academic research.

To get more people to participate, they also offer users a $5 bonus. Users only need to answer some entertainment-like test questions that are not painful or itchy, and they can get bonuses. The premise is that some Facebook information needs to be authorized to this third-party program before taking the personality test, which includes not only your avatar Nickname, as well as friends list and some status information of friends. The app developer, a professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge in the UK, then sold data on those users and their Facebook friends to Cambridge Analytica. The data includes information about Facebook users’ profiles and what they have “liked”. It’s also one of the biggest data breaches the tech giant has ever seen.

Many of the seemingly innocuous games or quizzes you sign up for on a site are doing the same information gathering where these companies ask Facebook for your personal information and take it away to get what they want the goal of. Facebook itself is doing the same thing, everything you post or do on the site is fed into a set of data which is then used to serve you relevant ads and stakeholders gain from it Benefit.

We can’t prevent these data leaks when we use Facebook, but we can make our data as private as possible. Use security software to encrypt your data on Facebook and send it for backup, so that you can minimize the risk of data loss.

II. How to transfer encrypted files with high security

In recent years, with the rapid development of information technology, the storage scale and application mode of data information have changed dramatically. Data gradually presents the characteristics of large scale, variety, and low price. Coupled with various storage modes such as cloud, personal PC, and server, the risk of data leakage continues to increase. If we want to transfer files with high security, we should do some protection to protect our data privacy, and encrypt and lock our important files. So what software can protect our data on the PC side?

1. Use Renee File Protector

Renee File Protector It is a safe and professional file encryption software that uses world standard encryption technology (AES-256) to ensure the security of files. It is feature-rich, with encryption,hidden folder, and functions such as completely deleting folders after use, provide strong protection for folders on Windows devices.

Renee File Protector - Overall Protection to Your Data

Easy to use Few clicks for whole folder encryption process.

Overall protection Users can hide, lock or get other protection to files in local disk or USB disk.

High Security Classified encryption method prevents data from leakage.

Compression transfer Support to compress and encrypt any files to secure the file transfer security.

Advanced self protection Provide self

Easy to use Few clicks for whole folder encryption process.

Overall protection Users can hide, lock or get other protection to files in local disk or USB disk.

High Security Classified encryption method prevents data from leakage.

Free Trial Free Trial 800 users have downloaded and protect data!

(1) Open the software Renee File Protector, and then click “File Encryption” in “General” in the left menu column. Then add a new file or folder (multiple choices are allowed), and click to encrypt to gfl or exe format.

Renee File Protector encrypted file window

(2) Select the storage path to be encrypted and click Save. It should be noted that the difference is: when unlocking the two encrypted formats, the gfl format can be decrypted by directly opening the encrypted archive location and entering the password, but Renee File Protector needs to be installed to unlock it. For the exe format, there is no need to install Renee File Protector, just open the archive on the local computer and enter the initial password to unlock it.

(3) After entering the password, click OK to start encryption. The encryption time depends on the size of the file.

(4) When decrypting, different windows will pop up to unlock according to the encryption format gfl and exe. Enter the corresponding password and click OK to unlock.

2. Encrypt emails with Renee SecureSilo

After we use Renee File Protector, those encrypted files can be encrypted and sent out in the form of Zip with password, which can provide double encryption guarantee for the sent files, which has high security and reduces the risk of malicious interception. risk.

Renee SecureSilo It is a security application with the function of protecting email attachments. It can compress and encrypt your files as mailbox attachments, and users who are subject to this attachment need a password to open it.

Renee SecureSilo – Encrypt Confidential Data

Encrypt files in seconds Encrypt files with virtual encrypted disk and whole process can be finished in 1 second.

User friendly Concise interface helps users master the software in short time.

High Security AES256 encryption algorithm helps Renee Seecure Silo encrypt files confidentially.

Encrypt any Data Support to encrypt images, videos, Office documents and software.

Overall Data Protection Solution Protect data in USB disk/hide/disguise files/ Password wallet.

Easy to use Few clicks for whole encryption process.

User friendly Concise interface helps users master the software in short time.

Encrypt any Data Support to encrypt images, videos, Office documents and software.

Free Trial Free Trial 800 users have downloaded and protect data!

(1) Download and install Renee SecureSilo, open the main interface, click the “Protect USB” column, and select the “Protect Email Attachment” option at the bottom.

(2) After adding the previously encrypted files or the files you want to send, click Next.

(3) Wait for the encryption to be in Zip format. The duration depends on the size of the file. Generally, the encryption speed is faster.

(4) After the encryption is completed, it can be sent out as an email attachment, and the user who receives the email attachment needs a password to open it, which ensures the security of privacy.

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