Security and Privacy

Problems of privacy on the Internet is not a thing in the past, with new technologies and softwares, these problems are on a rise. Internet users need to be careful with the private informations from hackers, who seem to be in every corner of the web. Hackers are able to access your private information instantly just using couple of informations you post online. Not only are these type of small scale hackers more common now, but big scale hackers, who are able to steal personal informations of thousands of people or informations from the government are also more common now. The article "U-Md. computer security attack exposes 300,000 records," talks about hacker(s) being able to attack personal records of more than 300,000 universities students and professionals. It's shocking and a little impressive how someone is capable of doing this. Another example of a major security breach would be the Target security breach, in which thousands of customers shopping between the period of Black friday and Christmas of 2013 were attacked. Not only were their personal informations stolen, but these hackers were able to violate these informations by spending thousands of dollars from the customers credit account.
These are just some examples of our security of privary being attacked and violated online. These type of things happen on a daily basis to people's credit card information, social security, online sites, etc.. This just goes on to show that everyone on the web needs of be careful when using their personal information or going on certain sites. If big companies and the government, who have top notch security are able to become a victim to hackers then common users like us are bound to be an easy target.