Cyber stalking
Cyber stalking 'now more common' than face-to-face stalking with many victims finding themselves pursued by complete strangers online. The major finding was that nearly 40% of cyber stalking victims are men. Past studies have identified women as much more at risk from face-to-face stalking. The pattern of harassment is different between male and female victims with men are targeted by strangers more than women. Around 37% of men were stalked by a stranger, compared with 23% of women. Only 4% reported being stalked by a former partner, compared with victims of face-to-face stalking, where around half are former partners, according to Echo. Most of the victims surveyed were aged 20 to 39, although ages ranged from 14 to 74, with teenagers reporting social networking sites as the environment in which they were most likely to be harassed.-full text-
Cyber bullying
Cyber bullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor.
The Suicide of Ryan Halligan (2003)
13-year-old Ryan Halligan spent most of the summer of 2003 online. It was a safe place for him. He was small for his age, and he had a learning disability. Regrettably, the kids from school found Ryan online and began tormenting him over instant messenger. After a summer of finding no respite from the teasing, Ryan had to return to school where the bullying escalated. One girl, who was particularly cruel to him, called him a loser, to which he responded, “Its girls like you who make me want to kill myself.” And then he did. On October 7, 2003, his sister found him dead in the bathroom of their home. After Ryan’s death, his father began reviewing his son’s chat logs on the family computer. What he found shocked him and exposed the catalyst for Ryan’s suicide The Halligans have since befriended one of Ryan’s former bullies, and together they’ve gone on to educate others about the dangers of cyber-bullying.click here The risk of identity theft
Identity Theft: Cyber criminals hack Facebook
Facebook has become a popular way to reach out and touch someone in cyber world. When Bryan Rutberg signed up, expected to find old friends on Facebook. What he didn't expect was for a cyber-criminal to find him."I've reconnected with old friends from high school days, college days, graduate school days, people I used to work with, but if this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone," says he. What happened to Rutberg started about two weeks ago, when his family noticed something frightening."My daughter was alarmed that my Facebook status had changed and I hadn't changed it," he recalls .A new message, on Ruberg’s page read, 'Bryan is in urgent need of help!!!"Of course he wasn't, he was safe at home in Seattle."Somehow cyber-criminals had taken over the access to the page, I had been locked out and someone had changed the email address associated with the account. Somebody meant to do this," says he. With the help of Facebook it took about a day for Rutberg to regain access to his account. Facebook says though this scam affects a small number of users they're instituting changes that will better notify users when their account is modified.
Hacking Facebook and PlayStation Network account to some extent can cause annoyance to owners of registered accounts. This matter involves personal safety, such as the use of credit cards, e-mail, online banking, Facebook and others. Build a good and effective password is not easy and simple. Many factors should be considered to make it unique, easy to remember, hard to hack, and not too long. However, most Internet users are less concerned with the creation of a secure password. From his/her point of view, the registration of account is something no need to pay more attention. Some users do not read the terms and conditions precisely and always take the easiest way by clicking next; next and next button. Here, are commonly password that being tested by the hackers when they want to hack somebody account. Is your password is one of these?
· 123456789, 666666, 111111, 0
(By using this password, your account can be hacked in just 10 seconds)
(By using this password, your account can be hacked in just 10 seconds)
· password , passw0rd
(The writer’s opinion about this kind of people who use a password like this is quite lazy to create a password .At least, you must create a password that is more unique and creative)
(The writer’s opinion about this kind of people who use a password like this is quite lazy to create a password .At least, you must create a password that is more unique and creative)
· qwerty, abc
(No need to think long, just press the buttons above the keyboard and as a result, hackers no need to think long and can easily get into your account)
(No need to think long, just press the buttons above the keyboard and as a result, hackers no need to think long and can easily get into your account)
· abc123
(Simple combination of characters and numbers above are very easy to hack)
(Simple combination of characters and numbers above are very easy to hack)
· **********
(The use of symbols and punctuation is very effective to build a strong password but do not use a type or one way only)
(The use of symbols and punctuation is very effective to build a strong password but do not use a type or one way only)
· iloveyou, f --- you, whatever
(By choosing the word as a password can give the hacker to guess it easier.More than 500 commanly used words are used as passwords)
(By choosing the word as a password can give the hacker to guess it easier.More than 500 commanly used words are used as passwords)
· Significant events such as birthday and wedding anniversary
(Most users choose the important date of events as the password for easy for them to remember it. The hackers who close to that user can guess it more easily)
(Most users choose the important date of events as the password for easy for them to remember it. The hackers who close to that user can guess it more easily)
· Identification card number, license plate number or telephone number
(The hacker can guess the password by making random guesses)
(The hacker can guess the password by making random guesses)
· The combination of all of the above
(By combining the above list, the user may think as if he /she is save.However, this kind of password seems at risk because nowadays, the emergence of many advanced software have facilitated hacking work by generating the password)
Identity theft protection guide
1) Limit the amount of personal information available on your social networking site’s profile.
· Never list your full date of birth, phone number or physical address on your Facebook profile. Your real friends and associates will likely already know this information so including it on your profile will only increase your risk of being victimized by identity thieves.
· Limit the amount of contextual password clues on your profile pages. Identity thieves know that many people use their birth day, a spouse or significant other's name or birth date, an anniversary date, mother's maiden name, pet's name or other personal information as passwords on their personal accounts. It is also a good idea to make sure your online passwords don't include these types of personal items since they are easily hacked.
2) Only accept friend requests from people you know.
- If you don't recognize the person who is making the friend request feel free to ask them how they know you before you accept their friend request by using the "send message" feature in Facebook. If they don't answer or if their answer seems suspicious you can investigate further or simply ignore their friend request.
