Friday, June 26, 2009

The threat of online security: How safe is our data?

In our information explosion era, the threat of online security had become a more and more serious problem, internet users getting information or data online. People and people conducting business online are getting more and more concern now on How Safe is our Data. We store our photo, personal information, banking account and etc in our computer, will outsiders being able to hack in and steal our data and take advantages out of it? We have to take care about that.

Internet users display more and more their personal information on web sites has created the environment of exploiting the users on a situation of disposing their data or information to others and others might misuse, damage the information. Most people do not really understand that they can protect their security online by taking reasonable steps. Computer security had played a significant role in protecting our data from misuse or damage.

The major online security threats nowadays includes accidental actions, malicious attacks, online fraud, phishing, network attacks like computer virus, worms, trojan horses and even back doors. I will explain some of it here.
For example, accidental actions which indicate problems arising from basic lack of knowledge about online security concepts and includes poor password choices, accidental disclosure and outdated software. Online fraud is internet transactions that involve falsified information such as fake IDs, certificate and recommendation letters.

In conclusion, computer security must be able to keep up with increasing sophisticated method that are using by computer hacker to keep us away from exploiting our data to others and to reduce the online security threats.

No comments:

Post a Comment