Hacking People, not computers, create computer threats. Computer predators victimize others for their own gain. Give a predator access to the Internet — and to your PC — and the threat they pose to your security increases exponentially. Computer hackers are unauthorized users who break into computer systems in order to steal, change or destroy information, often by installing dangerous malware without your knowledge or consent. Their clever tactics and detailed technical knowledge help them access information you really don’t want them to have. How do computer hackers and predators find me?
Anyone who uses a computer connected to the Internet is susceptible to the threats that computer hackers and predators pose. These online villains typically use phishing scams, spam email or instant messages and bogus Web sites to deliver dangerous malware to your computer and compromise your computer security. Computer hackers can also try to access your computer and private information directly if you are not protected with a firewall. Tsensitive personal and financial information, or much worse. cards Make purchases Add themselves.
TECHNOLOGY
1 in 4 car accindets are caused by people using technolgy at the wheel
CYBER CRIME The sharp rise in the headline figures is due to the inclusion of an estimated 5.1m online fraud incidents and 2.5m cybercrime offences for the first time. The crime survey for England and Wales, which is based on people’s experience of crime, shows that the underlying crime rate, excluding cybercrime, continued to fall, by 8% to an estimated 6.5m offences in the 12 months to June.
REASONS FOR CYBER CRIME
CYBER CRIME 72.4%
CYBER WARFARE 9.5%
CYBER ESPIONAGE 4.3%
HACTIVISIM 13.8%
COMMUNICATION Using technology in communication has become a necessity, its now part of our lives. People communicate through emails, faxes, Mobile phones, texting services, video conferences, video chart-rooms and social media channels. As time goes on, more emerging technologies will change the way we communicate and it will be up to us to embrace them or not. Let’s look at the impact or use of technology in communication both to individuals and businesses. Because technology has completely changed how these two parties are communicating? Impact of technology in communication to a business: Today, every business uses technology in its own way to reach the media and targeted consumers. Also businesses have embraced technology by easing communication with in companies and among investors and suppliers. Below are a few uses of technology in communication to a business.
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The email message is replacing handwritten correspondence in business and personal interactions. Businesses use email to communicate with customers and staff. Schools often use email to communicate with parents, teachers and students. In addition, people can send an email message and quickly get a response whereas sending other written correspondence may require a longer turnaround time. One bonus of the email message includes saving on postage costs. Many providers, such as Google Mail and Yahoo!, provide free email aca variety of topics from counts. throughout the world The World Wide Web is an in- and to author and pubternational online database lish similar documents to that allows the sharing of share with others. Some linked multimedia documents. researchers have viewed These documents can be au- the Web as an extension of thored in a non-linear, lay- an L2 culture or society; ered and linked format, which by engaging in Web-based is referred to as hypertext activities, students can or hypermedia. The devel- gthrough other forms opment and spread of the of immersion in a cultureWorld Wide Web in the 1990s schauer, 1999).