It’s a difficult choice as to what to talk about and share with you first, I have decided that the easiest way, is to deal with topics or items that are most relevant at the time. As discuss items and topics it will naturally teach you habits that will help you become a proficient tech user.
A behaviour that is gathering momentum at the moment on face book is: Somebody posing a question or a challenge, something like, “98% of people can’t see this for more than 15secs....” or something very similar. These are often accompanied by a video link (a picture that you click on,
which will open a video for you). Once you click on this link, your computer may shutdown and restart on its own, at this point no damage is done. What happens next is where they get you, when you open up your web browser and log onto your Facebook page again, the page will look exactly the same, but is not actually the real Facebook. If you look up in the address bar (where you type in the web page address) you will find that the address is actually in some way different to the real Facebook address, it may be something as small as a spelling change. Once you enter you log details the owners of the page capture these details and have access to your account and all your information.
This behaviour is known as “Phishing”, it is when someone makes an email or a webpage look like an original one from the appropriate source, but in fact it is placed there to lead you to a fake one provided by criminals and hackers.
The biggest danger to your security online believe it or not, is yourself, it is your own behaviour online that can lead to danger, you need to be on your guard and always assume that something is suspicious (guilty until proven innocent). For example A link is not always as it appears to be, and can be set up to take you to anywhere the author chooses, no matter what the link looks like. In this example www.Computers&Technology.com.au looks like it will take you straight to technology site, try clicking on it (it’s safe) and you will see that where you end up has nothing at all to do with technology.
An easy way to get around this problem is, if the link is in the form of an address; you can copy the address and paste it into the address bar, then click “enter” or “go”. If the link is a symbol or a picture you need to check the address that appears in the address bar once the page has loaded. The last option is to use the link as an idea only, and to search for the same site via a search application like “google” or
“bing”.
This type of threat can fool the most experienced web users, the lesson that I would like you to take away from this is to always be
“alert”.
A behaviour that is gathering momentum at the moment on face book is: Somebody posing a question or a challenge, something like, “98% of people can’t see this for more than 15secs....” or something very similar. These are often accompanied by a video link (a picture that you click on,
which will open a video for you). Once you click on this link, your computer may shutdown and restart on its own, at this point no damage is done. What happens next is where they get you, when you open up your web browser and log onto your Facebook page again, the page will look exactly the same, but is not actually the real Facebook. If you look up in the address bar (where you type in the web page address) you will find that the address is actually in some way different to the real Facebook address, it may be something as small as a spelling change. Once you enter you log details the owners of the page capture these details and have access to your account and all your information.
This behaviour is known as “Phishing”, it is when someone makes an email or a webpage look like an original one from the appropriate source, but in fact it is placed there to lead you to a fake one provided by criminals and hackers.
The biggest danger to your security online believe it or not, is yourself, it is your own behaviour online that can lead to danger, you need to be on your guard and always assume that something is suspicious (guilty until proven innocent). For example A link is not always as it appears to be, and can be set up to take you to anywhere the author chooses, no matter what the link looks like. In this example www.Computers&Technology.com.au looks like it will take you straight to technology site, try clicking on it (it’s safe) and you will see that where you end up has nothing at all to do with technology.
An easy way to get around this problem is, if the link is in the form of an address; you can copy the address and paste it into the address bar, then click “enter” or “go”. If the link is a symbol or a picture you need to check the address that appears in the address bar once the page has loaded. The last option is to use the link as an idea only, and to search for the same site via a search application like “google” or
“bing”.
This type of threat can fool the most experienced web users, the lesson that I would like you to take away from this is to always be
“alert”.
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