The Problem Of Accessing Private Information

As the world progresses and technology becomes better and wider spread. The amount of information created increases exponentially. Also as our technology increases and gets better, information that the technology collects becomes more accessible. People can pretty much access information from anywhere at any time about anything, most information is a quick google search away. This is a great thing but as everything moves to a more technological world, our personal information become readily accessible and more people have access to it. Today social networking and education have dramatically benefitted from this increase in information and accessibility. But this can also be a very bad thing, there are also people who take advantage of this accessibility to information in a negative way, with public information being as accessible as it is it makes it a lot easier for people to steal others information. For example identity thieves can steal people’s information they find online and gain access to their identity, because a lot of people’s information is online and accessible to everyone.

As value customers of the Anthem, Inc. we believe it is important to keep each one of you informed of any incident that might affect your business with us. Your privacy and security is our priority for the reason Anthem, Inc. would like to inform our customers of a recent phishing attack. Unfortunately, we have experienced similar attacks in the past which led many of the employees and customers’ data exposed to hackers. Even though this is a serious matter for the company and the customers it is important for us to make our customers aware that phishing attacks are common and they cause huge losses to both the customers and the companies (Wright et al., 2014). Our most recent attack took place on April 2014 and it affected about 80 million identifiable data stolen via phishing emails. The

Bank of America is a multinational banking institute and one of the most trusted in the banking industry. This organizations sole purpose is to protect the customer’s confidentiality and assets by ensuring that data protection is the number one priority; however any organization when holding personal information can be a victim of data breach and BoA is not exempt. One of the largest risks BoA faces today is Mobile Banking. This consumer convenience is used by fifty percent of smart phone owners (Finney, 2014). Phishing is also threat to the banking industry; this strategy by hackers allows the extraction of consumer passwords and other sensitive information. Hackers targeting banking institution employees with convincing e-mails that fool them into clicking on malicious links-which ultimately compromise their credentials or

The tendency of internet users to instantly assume website credibility, provides even the most unskilled hackers an opportunity to gain unauthorized access to someone’s computer in the world today. Often, malicious or ill-intended websites are designed in such as way that visitors perceive as trustworthy, but in the background are set up as platforms for phishing or to intentionally antagonizing users to get a reaction, also known as internet “trolling”. To the untrained user, the signs of a hoax website are often unclear. However, SomaliCruises.com, a website advertising cruises to Somalia in hopes of being hijacked and fighting Somalian pirates, provides an excellent case study of what a hoax website might look like. Specifically, Somali Cruises uses precise formatting and a friendly tone to make a good initial impression, but reveals its status as a hoax through subtle elements like sketchy advertisements,

In this day and age, the threat of identity theft for the common individual has increased drastically. With advancements in technology and the ever growing power of the internet, identity thieves can rob personal information from unsuspecting victims quickly and easily. Identity theft has formed into a particular type of cyber crime. Perpetrators access the personal information of individuals by “phishing”, deceiving them into giving them personal data, the use of malware to access information, or hacking which allows criminals to illegally access individual’s computers. However, the breach of personal data is not limited to the individual person, as recently as 2016 organizations such as the United States Federal Reserve, the Central Bank

The internet has millions of networks and websites that require one’s personal information. Each personal account holds a privacy setting that should guarantee confidentiality but that is not always the case. The advances of technology leads to situations that people are unprepared for such as hacking personal data. Some may believe their information is secure online because companies are always improving security. However, society will always be faced with individuals who will want to steal information. Hackers use private information for monetary value and

In terms of computer security, Social Engineering refers to the psychological manipulation of people in order to access confidential information. It is believed that it can be easier to trick people than to hack into their computing system by force. Social engineers gather personal information or gain access to computers by exploiting people’s natural tendency to want to trust others and be helpful. Some methods that are used by social engineers to gain information are via email, the internet or even by phone to trick people into revealing sensitive information or get them to do something that goes against the company’s policy. “Social engineering has been an effective method of committing fraud for centuries. Recently, however, it has been used more and more to assist criminals in perpetrating crimes that can net large sums of money. Without one social engineering method or another, most current attacks would not be successful [11]”. Employees are an organization’s weakest link and social engineering attacks are only limited by the creativity of the perpetrator, which relies on the gullibility of people.

The increasing volume and sophistication of cyber security threats including targeted data theft, phishing scams and other online vulnerabilities demand that we remain vigilant about securing our systems and information.

Phishing attack is identified as a major attack among all online attacks. Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

By clicking on the “forgot password” link and requesting the verification code, the attacker prompts the email provider to send an SMS message with the code to the victim’s mobile phone.

Posts or mails we receive on daily basis which we unlikely to see and are sent to more than one recipient. Opening these mails may lead to fatal virus or malware attacks as these mails may send user to websites which are used or built to steal password, credit card numbers and malware attacks.

Whether the intent be malicious or merely curiosity, people will always try to circumvent barriers. Physical locks have bread lock picks, and so digital barriers have bread hackers. In the new ethereal world of the wired, this common problem has developed a new dimension. Whereas physical security measures for business, banks, and the like is at a more sophisticated level than for home users, the digital security is similar at just about any level. And, because everyone is connected, and its difficult to know what is behind a given IP address, everyone is a target.

With the beginning of internet, various online attacks have been increased and among them, the most popular attack is phishing. Phishing is an online security attack where the hacker targets in achieving sensitive information like passwords, credit card information etc. from the users by making them to believe what they see is what it is. It is the combination of social engineering and technical methods to convince the user to reveal their personal data. The paper discusses about the Phishing social engineering attack theoretically and their issues in the life of human Beings. At the same time this paper also provides different techniques to detect these attacks so that they can be easily dealt with in case one of them occurs. The paper gives a thorough survey of various Phishing attacks along with their preventive measures.

These days, when e-mail has become the main means of personal and business communication and stealing information is what trade secret crimes thrive on the problems of securing email and safeguarding privacy are on everyone’s mind.

Internet safety has been getting more and more difficult to keep even at the level it is now. This problem is spreading not just to small businesses, but also to major companies as well with this news coming out “Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious