BY CHARLIE FRANKLIN
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.
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%
£ 3,000,000 is How much money is stolen every year in the UK
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.
One the one hand, the Web allows additional modes of computer-mediated communication through Web-based chat rooms, bulletin boards, and discussion forums, thus making even more popular the kind of long-distance exchanges and computer-assisted conversation activities described above. In addition, the World Wide Web adds a new dimension to online communication and learning by allowing students to find and read online documents on
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 a variety of topics from and Yahoo!, provide free email throughout the world and to author and publish simiaccounts. lar documents to share with The World Wide Web is an in- others. Some researchers ternational online database have viewed the Web as an that allows the sharing of linked extension of an L2 culture or multimedia documents. These society; by engaging in Webdocuments can be authored in based activities, students can a non-linear, layered and linked gthrough other forms of imformat, which is referred to mersion in a cultureschauer, as hypertext or hypermedia. 1999). The development and spread of the World Wide Web in the 1990s marked a second period in the use of online communication in language teaching.
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