Saturday, October 24, 2009

First Source - Internet security

Tedeschi, B. (2004). Protect Your Identity. PC World, 22(12), 107-112.

This article is talking about the fastest-growing crimes, identity theft, in the Internet. Most victims are hit merely with credit card account hijackings, a common hacking method used by many hackers in the world, but for many others the situation is much worse. People are normally careless with their secret information such as credit card or other personal information. Hacker can create a fake web site with interface similar with the original one for example Yahoo or Microsoft. Thus, when people try to complete a transaction or checkout, at the very end of these step they will be very easy lost their information.

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