Security Online
How to be safe online
Your Rights and Responsibilities Online
- Never share personal information online
- Never share your location
- Use strong passwords which you change regularly
- Adjust your privacy settings accordingly
- Be careful of unwanted emails (spam)
- Don't open emails that you receive from a place you know or don't know which asks for personal and banking information because it may be a fake and it could be someone who wants to use your personal information against you (phishing)
- Be careful of what you post online because it may effect you later on in your life for jobs, friendships etc.
- Keep your Facebook settings on private and not on public
Social networking sites and how to stay safe
- Limit the amount of personal information you post
- Remember that the internet is a public resource and everyone can have access
- Be wary of strangers and who you add to your contacts
- Think before posting information about your self
- Use strong passwords with punctuation, upper case, lower case and numbers
- Use anti virus software so you can protect your self against known viruses
- Update your software so that attackers (hackers) don't take advantage of known problems
Security Technoligies
- Use complex pin numbers (personal identification number) which are very difficult to guess but easy for you to remember
- Use Encryption softwares, what this does is scrambles your original message, and they only way you can open it is by using a correct 128bit key which is extremely hard to crack
- Biometric scanners can be used for security what they do is recognise you according to your physical or behavioural traits such as finger print scanners, retinal scanners etc.
- The purpose of forensic computing is to preserve, analyse and search information on computer systems to find information that can be used for trials
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