In this 21st century which is a digital world, The Computers and internet are very common used by peoples, no matter they are used online for entertainment, find information on studies or in business purpose. This kind of technology might bring us a lot of advantages to make our life easier. But it is also bring us to be troublesome sometimes.
What will make us Trouble Go Online???
There are many types of threat of online securities we can found in online such as key logger, Trojans, worms, hackers, and crackers.
For instance,
Key logger which is extremely dangerous, It’s a type of software can be either secretly installed on your PC via internet. This software allow people to monitor your keystrokes, your chat conversations, to steel passwords, credit card info, banking, identity….and can even allow remote access.
Trojans very common will get it if you like to download some games, movies, music by online or even viewing an email. This Trojan is a software that is installed unknowingly to your PC. Since it exists as a software program, the range of its activities can be quite broad, from usage monitoring to remote control to customized collection and theft of information.
Worm which is a type of software that propagates by creating duplicates of itself on your PC and will slow down the PC operating speed.
And now, Web-based services including social networks MySpace and Facebook, are becoming prime targets for hackers seeking your personal information. by Aaron Ricadela
The hackers or crackers are nearly use of typo-ridden emails pretending to come from your bank. As internet users, they like to display more of their personal information on social networking websites such as Facebook or Friendster.com and upload more sensitive data to online software programs. The hackers are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to pry that information loose. In many cases, they are devising small attacks that can fly under the radar of traditional security software, while exploiting the trust users place in popular business and consumer websites. These kinds of targeted attacks on Web-based services may constitute the top computer security threats of 2008 (BusinessWeek.com, 11/12/07), according to security experts. "One of the biggest challenges of 2008 will be, how do you do business online when you know there's a bad guy in the middle?" says Chris Rouland, chief technology officer in IBM's (IBM) Internet security systems division.
As the conclusion, to be safe we need to be more careful while upload our personal information and data, then needed to install and always updated the newest version of Anti-virus software and frequently do the scanning process on computer will ensure that your data might be safe.
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