Advantages of communication technologies is that their quick and easy. These days you don't have to write a formal letter to communicate with someone hundreds of miles away. Instead, you can just pick up your smart phone and email, text, or call them. Although there are many advantages our new form of communication comes with disadvantages. In my opinion, this new era of communication has taken away the emotion and person interaction which are important. They are making people lazier. .
I've dealt with spam, phishing, and texting while driving first hand. In the article "BBB: New Wave of" Phishing Scams Uses Facebook Info for Personalized Spam" there is a Facebook spam messages that lead you to a website that will give your computer malware.Abusing technologies for criminal activities will always be one step ahead of everyone. All we can do is try to create awareness and keep advancing our security
systems. On the internet if something looks to good to be true it usually is. For example, the Nigerian prince that needs your bank account information to transfer money to you for no reason is a popular phishing method through email which i have personally experienced.
I have experienced an email spam too saying that my email was selected to win thousands of dollars and that i need to send my contact information using the same email so they know they are transferring the money to the correct person.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. We will never beat hackers, but we can try to always be a step ahead to protect ourselves more effectively.
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