Friday, September 20, 2013

Questions on safe practices for life online

Questions 1 through 10

1. Facebook Twitter tumbler
2. Businessinsider.com. One teen arrested for posting rap lyrics. Two men arrested in England for causing a riot. On a personal note Tess people deserve to be put in jail with the things they say its scary.
3. Google.com
Sexting- phone porn basically
Cramming- where a carrier adding charges to a bill
Cookies- a virus from a server to computer
Trojan horse- a virus in a computer
Phishing- an online fake finance company to get money
Spywear- allows a user to take information from another computer
Rootkit- software that allows a user to control another computer without being seen
Zombie- allows a user to use another computer to send spam from that computer
4. It shows how unintelligent they are
5. It may attract a sexual online offender obit may put them on a watch list
6. Their name, age, and occupation
7. Most of the names are good it doesn't give out any personal information but some show when born and likes
8. 3 different screen names
- ironman63
- OptimusPrime23
- libertyUSA1777
9. -2 on cracked
10. Most common: students give their password to their friends, who then decide to use it or give it to others who use it
Least common: a password cracking program is used to crack their password


 Question 11

  The video talks about how drive by download are something of everyday use from opening a web site or email. The site installs strange things on a person's computer without their knowledge but when the user sees the problem they run a program to help get rid of it. Also seems like a different URL and it seems like it will help you.  All of these things will get an intruder into your computer and loads more malware and soon shows the hacker everything they need.  It is a scary thing to see.  If this is happening to some computers it is happening to all. People need to purchase security help and everything that will protect them from a hacker.



Questions 12 and 13

12. Lookstogoodtobetrue.com
       3 quizzes I did I am at low risk for each
13. Article: there is an article stating that the FBI found a new malware called bata bot. It is disguised as windows message box where it asks if the person wants to make modifications to their computer. Allowing the hacker I go in and get every personal information on the computer. Do not allow. They are also doing this on bank computers and big time companies.

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