Personal Data Search

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1 Personal Data Search Ta’Quierra Pittman College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Grand Canyon University ITT-307 Cybersecurity Foundations Professor Gaviria November 30, 2023
2 Personal Data Search The Findings of Your Personal Data Search While searching my name up in PeekYou, I found old addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media sites and it even showed people I was related to. The first step was typing in my first and last name, I selected all states because I’ve lived in 2 different states. Then press the search button. This is how the results screen will pop up. It gave me several different results, I clicked on the first one.
3 Security Threats and How They Affect Your Digital Footprint With all of the information that can be found online just by searching up my name, attackers could use this to gain information from my family members using familiarity and gaining their trust. They could also use this information to impersonate me, by creating a fake social media account and adding all of my friends from my real page. Another attack that could be utilized on me is smishing. Smishing is a type of phishing attack, but instead of using emails the attacker uses text messaging. The type of people that could possibly perform these attacks are criminal syndicates. These threat actors could impersonate my bank by telling me someone is trying to hack into my account, and I need to change my password, with a link attached. Once the link has been clicked it could launch malware on my phone or record the new password, I created for my bank account. There are many different ways that attackers can use your information against you, and it has only become easier with the increased use of technology. Definitions Using the free version of the website, a lot of the information is blurred out. But, it is your information therefore the little information you can see shows you how accurate it is.
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