Security Issues
- Created by: adelesimpson
- Created on: 05-05-16 11:27
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- Security Issues
- Bluejacking
- Process of sending unwanted messages to open Bluetooth connections
- Keep Bluetooth switched off when not in use
- Physical Threats
- Theft, flooding, fire and accidental damage
- Keep computers in locked rooms and back up data
- Hackers
- Try to get access to data without permission
- Use firewalls, passwords and encrypt the information travelling across networks
- Phishing
- Cons people into believing that an email or text is from a valid organisation so that they give away their username and passwords leading to identity theft
- You need to be able to identify phishing
- Unsecured Wireless Networks
- Let other users easily see and use your wireless network
- Secure wireless networks using a password and encrypt data travelling over the network
- Viruses
- Designed to be harmful to digital devices and to spread easily over networks
- Keep Bluetooth switched off when not in use
- Important Things to do
- Install latest updates for both browser and operating systems
- Use encryption for both transmission and storage of data
- Backups are increasingly important as threats to digital devices increase and as more people live more of their life online
- Development of cloud computing allows users to back up their data remotely
- Bluejacking
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