How safe is the internet in reality?
“Always THINK WISELY for your OWN SAFETY”
As I remember in the old days, the internet is invented to have “communication” or to easily “communicate” to other people around us, even in long distance. Using the internet, it is possible to have instant communication through emails/ chat, instant information through searching and, we can also use this in advertising businesses or different products. Internet have many positive uses in our lives, it makes our lives easier than before. That’s why we are very lucky to have it right now.
On the other hand, just like all things in this world “there’s always another side of the coin.” Nowadays, the Internet is considered one of the most dangerous places that we can experience. In simply sending emails and putting your personal information in different sites, how safe did you feel? Do you think you're still safe in using the internet? Maybe it’s already “yes” but it can be a “no.”
Many negative cases are occurred in using the internet just like cyberbullying, plagiarism, phishing, pharming and, harmful malware. It is very unsafe especially if you didn’t know what you are doing. It is very important to be aware in the cases like this, for you to prevent this kind of happenings to happen to you.
In my previous learning, I learned many kinds of dangers that we can encounter on the Internet and how to prevent this. These are the Email Spam, Phishing, Pharming, Spyware, Computer worms, Trojan horse and, Computer virus. First, the Email Spam that we can also called Junk mails. This is a kind of unsolicited messages/ emails that you didn’t know where it comes from it may carry different viruses such as a trojan horse that may affect your computer. To avoid it, do not open email spam or unknown messages and do not respond to any messages or links that you are not familiar to the sender unless you trust the source.
Next is Phishing, cybercrime that attempts to collect private information’s, just like passwords, usernames and, credit card details using reliable sources such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and other websites. It will try to deceive the recipient to believe that the emails are from a trustworthy site although it is not, then it will ask for your personal information’s. Some emails of this can make fake evidence such as links that the phisher also done to trick the users. Phishers do this to gain access to online accounts that the users have. Then they will use your personal information to steal money from your bank accounts, manipulate your reputation online, read your private emails and to change the password of your account. If you receive some emails that directing you to “sign in” or “log in” in a website from a link be careful because it can be an email from a phisher.
