Privacy and Security Information
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The document discusses various aspects of computer privacy and security. It outlines ways to protect privacy such as using passwords and encryption. Password protection allows only authorized users to access a computer, while public/private key encryption scrambles messages during transmission. The document also discusses how email privacy can be compromised if packets are intercepted during routing over the internet. It then covers information security strategies like restricting access and using biometrics. Malicious programs, or malware, are designed to damage systems, and examples provided are viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. The document concludes with a discussion of ethics issues involving copyright, digital rights management, and plagiarism.
Privacy and Security Information
- 2. By: Adeel Rasheed https://chauhantricks.blogspot.com/ https://www.slideshare.net/adeel02
- 3. Computer Privacy Everyone takes privacy in normal life for granted, computer also have privacy. When dealing with computers, security and privacy are almost synonyms.
- 4. Ways of computer privacy Password Encryption Email Privacy
- 5. Password Not just to protect the computer but to make sure that the computer issues by authorized worker or user only. Password is private combination of characters associated with the user name that allows access to computer resources
- 6. Encryption With public key encryption there are two keys, one public and the other private. The public key needs to be known. To send a message to a friend, you uses his public key to encrypt the message. Your friend then uses his private key to decode the message after receiving it.
- 7. Email Privacy When u send a message by email, the message is broken into packets and the packets are sent out over the Internet. The number of packets depends on the size of message. Each message has the internet address of the recipient. This means there may be some places between the packets could be intercepted and examined
- 8. Information Security The quality or state of being secure to be free from danger Security is achieved using several strategies Security is achieved using several strategies simultaneously or used in combination with one another Security is recognized as essential to protect vital processes and the systems that provide those processes Security is not something you buy, it is something you do
- 9. Information can be Created Stored Destroyed Processed Transmitted Used – (For proper & improper purposes) Corrupted Lost Stolen
- 10. HACKER: Create or improve programs and shared those program with fellow hackers . Typically are not criminal. CRACKERS: Share programs designed to gain unauthorized access computer systems or disrupt networks. Typically are criminals. CARDERS: Specialize in stealing, trading and using stolen credit cards over the internet.
- 11. MALICIOUS PROGRAMS (MALWARE) Design to damage or disrupt computer system. Most common types of malware viruses worms Trojan horses.
- 12. Measure to Protect Computer Security RESTRICTING ACCESS: Sometimes security matter of putting guards on company computer rooms and checking the identification of everyone admitted. Other times it use Biometric scanning such as fingerprint and iris. Password are secret words or phrases that must be keyed into a computer system to gain access.
- 13. Ethics Standards of moral products. The right to keep personal information, such as credit ratings and medical histories, from getting into unauthorized hands.
- 14. Two important issues in computer ethics Copyright and Digital Right Management Plagiarism
- 15. Copyright Gives content creators the right to control the use and distribution of their work. Example of materials : Paintings , books , music, films , video games. Others : make unauthorized copies Digital media. (violates copyright)
- 16. Software Piracy Digital Millennium Copyright Act established the right of the program owner to make a backup copy and disallow the creation of copies. illegal to download copyright-protected music and videos from Internet. Digital rights management (DRM) collection of technologies designed to prevent copyright violations. control the number of devices that can access given file. limits the kinds of devices that can access a file.
- 17. Plagiarism The illegal and unethical representation of some other person’s work and ideas as your own without giving credit to the original Source. Example : cutting & pasting Web content into a report or paper.
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