importance of awareness of the security knowledge
This assignment attempts to show the importance of awareness of the security knowledge that will make us more aware about threats like escrow services fraud, spams and spoofing. There’s statistics demonstrates the recent trends of these types of threats that people usually face in the Internet. The impacts mostly negative and sometimes there are big losses. The research studies the potential of cyberattacks to increase loss, scams and spoofing, both locally and worldwide.
Social networking sites turned to be at the top of the targets for attackers. Rafter said (2011), these social network sites are like a treasure trove of prized information for cyberattackrs. The reason why they’re focusing on social network sites is because it has million’s of users which means a lot of fraud opportunities. In such a popular open software applications, it’ll be easier for the hackers to reach and access personal information. One of the newest types of scams is email spoofing. Rafter defined email spoof as fake email messages, that looks like it’s a friend request. It comes with attached file as picture of the account asking for a request. These sorts of emails must carry some type of virus, for example a Trojan horse that steels password and other important information; it works if the receiver clicks on the attachment.
Phishing campaign means, when the email is demonstrating a page that’s shows the login pages of any social network site in the content of the email. In addition, its fake, and any private information that entered in this page such as password is directly transferred to the hacker. In YouTube scam, spammers create fake YouTube accounts, and send requests to others YouTube users through email asking them to see their profiles. For sure, if someone went to the link its going to transfer them to the spammer’s website (Rafter, 2011). In the Gulf countries 25 percent of tablet users and 20 per cent of smartphone owners received mails
Social networking sites turned to be at the top of the targets for attackers. Rafter said (2011), these social network sites are like a treasure trove of prized information for cyberattackrs. The reason why they’re focusing on social network sites is because it has million’s of users which means a lot of fraud opportunities. In such a popular open software applications, it’ll be easier for the hackers to reach and access personal information. One of the newest types of scams is email spoofing. Rafter defined email spoof as fake email messages, that looks like it’s a friend request. It comes with attached file as picture of the account asking for a request. These sorts of emails must carry some type of virus, for example a Trojan horse that steels password and other important information; it works if the receiver clicks on the attachment.
Phishing campaign means, when the email is demonstrating a page that’s shows the login pages of any social network site in the content of the email. In addition, its fake, and any private information that entered in this page such as password is directly transferred to the hacker. In YouTube scam, spammers create fake YouTube accounts, and send requests to others YouTube users through email asking them to see their profiles. For sure, if someone went to the link its going to transfer them to the spammer’s website (Rafter, 2011). In the Gulf countries 25 percent of tablet users and 20 per cent of smartphone owners received mails
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