NATS 1775 Lecture 12: lec 12Online privacy or cyber privacy.docx
24 Nov 2014
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When you surf the internet, a lot of you fail to realize that there are number of ways that your privacy rights are being violated without you knowing it. Social engineering is really about individuals or organizations who are deliberately trying to deceive you and manipulate you in order to gain access to your private and confidential information. Social engineering is the major way privacy is violated online. When you are sent an email about verification of yourself. Most of websites try to fool you about financial information. Terminology for these kinds of attempts at frauds: phishing refers to email sent to you asking about money with a promise of more money down the road. Pharming, it is very difficult to determine one fraudulent website from other. You can do so is by looking at security certificates in the website itself: vishing is a new term used to describe attempt at internet privacy violations using voip technology.
