negative implications of IT
- 1. Mahdi Rahmani 40113290 M2 – Describe the negative implications of IT on Social Communication Report – describe cyber bullying, spam, hacking, virus, phishing, suggest protection mechanism. Impact of IT - M2 How can IT impact individuals, what are negative implication – explain and describe cyber bullying, spam, hacking, virus, phishing – what all this means and what are the implication for users, what are the safety measures one need to take to protect and observe. • Cyber bullying • Spam • Phishing • Denial of service In M2 task I’mgoingto explainpointbypointof negativeimpactof ITon social communication. Firstly,goingtoexplaincyberbullyingonITand whatis cyberbullying. • Cyber bullying Cyberbullying may vary fromhumiliating or offensiveblog posts or video photos, to cyber-attacks, criticism and derogatory remarks, to hacking via newsletters, blogs, social networking channels and text messages. Growing age demographic is proneto cyberbullying butrising perpetrators are teens and young adults. cyberbullying is a increasing issuein schools that has becomes a concern because the internet is relatively private, which leads to abusers because it is impossibleto track their harassment. Unfortunately, theories, warnings and photographs can quite easily be disseminated online. How we can help this people againstcyber bullying? Firstly, wehave to keep all records of any online activity like Emails, Web pages, social media posts, Including relevantdates and times. Keep both an electronic version and a printed copy of each document,
- 2. Mahdi Rahmani 40113290 • Spam What is Spam? Spamemail. Such unwanted spam notifications that we consider cluttering our inboxes, are a challenge for internet users, business and politicians alike. Estimates vary but somesuggestthat more than 100 billion spam messages are sent per day, reflecting as much as 85 percent of the total global email traffic. As you in our email list we haveone box called junk email which is means spam or some email come from someone we don’tknow who is it and wherecome from. How could protect yourself from spam? 1. Think before click on any email. 2. Downloading anti-spam. 3. don’treplay to spam massage.
- 3. Mahdi Rahmani 40113290 • Phishing Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as username. Password and bank details by disgusting oneself as trustworthy ideally in an electronic communication. It’s so important to know how to protect your details from this people sometime we open some link we don’tknow where come from especially some web they don’thave https These webs are not safe to put your details or shopping via your credit card. Common features of phishing email. 1. Too good to be true Phishing designed to attract people’s attention immediately. Like a lottery when you see it in advertising and best way to stay protect don’tgo for any email or advertising. 2. Hyperlinks By changing some words, they can drag you to click in any link that they want. 3. Attachments When you see an attachment in an email that you didn't anticipate or that makes no sense, don't open it! They also bear payloads such as malware, or other viruses. Look at this example of phishing.
- 4. Mahdi Rahmani 40113290 Four steps to protect yourself from phishing. 1.protectyour pc by using security software. 2.protectyour phone by setting softwareto update automatically. 3.protectyour account by using multi-factor authentication. Like getting messagewhen you sign your account. 4.protectyour data by backing up. Putting your data into external hard drive.
- 5. Mahdi Rahmani 40113290 Denial of service Is method of attacking a networked computer by sending it an abnormally high number of requests, causing its network to slow down or fail. Since a single individual cannot generate enough traffic for a dos attack, these attacks are usually run from multiple computers infected by worms or computer for a dos. How does a DOS Attack work? Always Dos attackers they working together to attack the webs or pages to load this website and stop it for while or forever. Even they can attack computers and all that means shut down our machine or web. How we can preventDos attack? 1. Buy more bandwidth. 2. Build redundancy into your infrastructure. 3. Configure your network hardware against Dos attacks. 4. Deploy anti-Dos hardware and software. 5. Deploy a Dos protection appliance. 6. Protect your DNS servers. Finely to protect your computer there are a range of protection steps people and organisation may take to securetheir data and protect computer networks
- 6. Mahdi Rahmani 40113290 and service, such as encryption , firewalls , anti-virus, anti-spyware, passwords, backups and biometric authentication.