Potential Treats

Potential Treats

Cyber bullying could be a big problem for young people that use internet and social websites too much and they are the people that are likely to be bullied or one of the people that bullies someone through use of social websites such as hotmail and Facebook and other forms of cyber bullying could be through emails, text messages and online chartrooms. Cyber bulling is sending email to someone that knows you or don’t know you and emails could be about treating, swearing and talking about bad thing of that person, cyber bulling have affected young children’s so much that they afraid of telling their parents or to anyone else, to avoid cyber bulling you could report online or show the message to the police so that they can do something and will try to stop cyber bulling, also parents need to be aware of what is happening to their children, what websites they go on and help them to overcome cyber bulling.  

Spam is about sending electronic junk mail that the user did not ask for it, most of the spam emails is sent to you to advertise a product and making you buy it, if you open spam emails it will not certain virus or anything like that. To stop or avoid spam emails use two email address and there is a thing called ISP  email packages which filters spam emails and tries to stop or tries s to prevent those spam emails being sent to your email account and also avoid opening spam emails.

Phishing is used by fraud people or criminals to steal people’s valuable details or data by using internet or computer. They basically create fake website that looks like it’s from a bank but it’s not and people use that website and put in their valuable details such as their credit card number and account details and that way they will get your details and use it for other things. To avoid phishing make of the website is not fake and make sure that website is secure and safe to use.  

Denial of service attacks is illegal and is done mostly by criminals, denial of service is a web server overwhelming with useless requesting too many times which then the network unable to cope and stops providing service, this might be attempt for fun or to blackmail an online websites owner for money and sometimes they could do it for revenge. I think to stop denial of service attacks you could set up a filter on the network which identifies a pattren that is sent by the harcker and blocks them and I don’t think there is any more way of blocking denial of service.