How The Internet Affects The Efficiency And Safety Of Users On Web 2.0

Tom Van de Wiele, a principal security consultant at F-secure, says, “Real-life attackers, especially criminals, live off perfecting subtle social engineering tricks that trick human beings into letting their guard down. And letting employees believe that cutting-edge security technologies will handle everything gives a false sense of security, which is something today's attackers are counting on.”. Today hackers will use a hacking tactic called phishing, which involves sending emails from someone who seems legit to collect personal information and much more. Some people believe that the internet is fully protected and that everything on it is secured. But people have so much faith in technology instead of using common

The email may promise a refund or require additional personal information and include an attachment you must open and complete. Typically, these emails and their attachments comprise a phishing scam that’s designed to deliver harmful software, malware or spam to your electronic devices.

With the intoduction of Web 2.0, sharing information through social networking has increased and as there has been increased business/services over the internet websites are often attacked directly. Hackers either attempt to compromise the network or alternetivly the end-users opening the website.

If you get an email from someone unexpected, don’t open it, instead report it. Phishing email contains links to malware or attachments with malware embedded in the file. If you open the file or click on the link, an attacker can access your system remotely.

Over the past twenty years, the Internet’s role in our lives has grown to an everyday necessity. We rely on the Internet to communicate within the scope of our employment and social lives, to conduct our banking and bill paying, we even use it to track our personal property. There is hardly one area of our lives that we can not conduct over the Internet. While the Internet is a convenience that has made our lives easier, it has also opened the door in our lives to a vulnerability that is rapidly being exploited by cyber criminals. Cyber crimes are growing at an exponential rate in the United States and we, the consumers/end users are unaware of the liabilities a simple click on the wrong button can cause. This paper will

Who would poison the water supply? This article illustrates how the researchers did not expect the security issues as their view of the internet expected "good" users and not malicious ones. What they expected of society was not what they saw. This flaw in humanity to be malicious or just make viruses for fun exploited a flaw in the design. It is difficult to examine the outcome as not all humans are alike. You expect the best case user but will end with worst case users. You cannot safeguard against a problem you did not

Many users are subject of Security and Privacy on the Internet issue. The term "information" now is more used when defining a special product or article of trade which could be bought, sold, exchanged, etc. Often the price of information is higher many times than the cost of the very computers and technologies where it is functioning. Naturally it raises the need of protecting information from unauthorized access, theft, destruction, and other crimes. However, many users do not realize that they risk their security and privacy online.

We are a generation that has evolved with the internet and we have seen the issues its growth has caused. It’s hard to imagine a world without smartphones, the internet, and big companies like Google or Apple anymore because we are so connected with them. But there’s a real risk when we are so dependent on them, because simply using these products requires a lot of trust. Many people may think an internet attack will never happen to them, but too many incidents have occurred for this notion to

The Internet today is used by people of various ages. Although the internet is a great and useful resource, yet internet dangers are around every corner. The use of technology has turned from educational resources or connecting with family across the globe to negative threats. Identity theft, cyberbullying, inappropriate content, sexual predators, and negative reputation are a few of the threats lurking on the internet. In the past years, social media has been immensely popular such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp. In the beginning of the internet age, the concern of internet safety was to block inappropriate content, but now it also about saving people from being a victim of the dangerous hackers and fake scams. Follow these guidelines to help stay away from these dangerous.

Internet safety has been an extensive issue for children and adolescents since accuse to the Internet has become readily available in homes. With Internet use increasing at such rapid rates and a large proportion of adolescents using the Internet daily, the awareness of Internet safety should be addressed. The term Internet safety can be defined as “the knowledge of maximizing an individuals safety to private information, and self protection from using the Internet”. The impact and influence that the Internet has on adolescent life is far-reaching and research findings by Norris (2007) indicate that one-quarter of the American youth that go online at home, do so in the privacy of their rooms. Additionally, with the recent trend of wireless connections there has been a profound expansion in private Internet usage. The diverse means by which adolescents are using the Internet has become coupled with inherent risks of unsupervised and uneducated use.

Internet privacy is the security of a user’s personal data that is stored or published on the internet. The internet is an important part of every individual’s daily life. In today’s society, the internet is used by many different people for many reasons. It can be used for research, communication, and purchasing items. Without the internet, many things that are completed during the course of a day would be impossible or take time to complete. As people use the internet, everything is stored in a database that tracks and keeps any personal information that is entered by users. As users continue to use the internet to complete important tasks such as purchasing items and paying bills, their privacy and security become at risk. Although the internet can be seen to have a positive impact on society, it does have a negative impact. Since the internet can be accessed by anybody it can cause a lot of damage. Examples of internet risk include identity thieves, phasing, and scams. Due to things such as online shopping, banking and other e-commerce options, personal information is stored in the internet enabling many cybercrimes to occur. Cybercrimes are very similar to any regular crime; the crime just happens to take place on websites for criminals to hack and steal user’s information for their own personal benefit. Cybercriminals tend to attack users based on their emails, social media accounts, and web history because the most history about an individual is stored in those sites.

Web applications are nowadays serving as a company’s public face to the internet. This has created the need to identify threats and attacks directed to data servers and web applications. Hackers exploit vulnerabilities in input validation and authentication affecting the web application in order to gain illegal access and disclose sensitive data or manipulate it to their benefits.

In today’s world, we are all in some way connected to or involved with the internet. We all use different services that we feel either enrich our lives or make them more enjoyable every day, from email to FaceBook, MySpace, and e-commerce. We all take a sort of false comfort in the basic anonymity of the internet; however, when we think about it, that could end up being the single biggest risk to our own safety today. When we typically think of crimes committed against us, we could probably name several: mugging, theft, scams, murder, and rape. For these, things we all take as many necessary steps as we can to help lower the chances of them happening to us because they are on the forefront of our minds. However, most of us don’t take the

“With great power comes great responsibility,” as famously said by Uncle Ben from Spiderman. Nowadays, people have smartphones and personal devices that allow for us to escape from reality, while, also giving us powerful functionality tools like alarms, calendars, calculators, and access to Google. We, as a modern tech savy society, must be aware and wise when using technology and the internet since dangers are everywhere. As a result, society has become overly dependent with using technology within their daily lives, so much that it affects children, can lead to online dangers, and creates an unnecessary obsession among users.

“With great power come great responsibility” as famously said by Uncle Ben from Spiderman. Nowadays, people have smartphones and personal devices that allow for us to escape from reality while also giving us powerful functionality tools like alarms, calendars, and access to Google. We, as a modern tech savvy society, must be aware and wise when using technology and the Internet since the dangers are everywhere. As a result, society has become overly dependant with using technology within their daily lives, so much that it affects children, can lead to online dangers, and creates an unnecessary obsession among the users.