Privacy on the web and Identity Theft

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Privacy on the Web and the Identity Theft

                                

Abstract

In this modern world widely held of the people using internet, most of them using their personal detail and card details in the internet to buy and sell goods. Cookies are one of the important weapons for the hackers to steal your personal details. Whatever website we are visiting, we might see an advertisement like you won 1 million pound. In this occurrence we will click on the cookies and that will take you to another page and ask you to fill your personal details like first name, sur name, date of birth, e-mail etc. this is  one of the way for the hackers to steal the personal information from internet.

Majority of people getting affected identity theft in web. Recently report taken by Federal Trade Commission says that every year more than millions of Americans are victims of fraud. The most common frauds are paying money in online, account transaction, buying goods from internet by using credit or debit card, and paying by card from unsecured website.

Privacy on the web

Privacy issues arise for users on the web:

There are so many privacy issues on the web. I had listed some of the effective issues in privacy on the web.

Privacy on the website

The website can collect almost most of the information that we visit like the computer that we use, what kind of software and hardware that we use, moreover what website that we visit, in almost most of the website ask some kind of information from us like our personal details like Name, age, e-mail id, phone number, address etc. Sometimes we might visit some website that doesn’t have any privacy, in that we case we should be very caution.

Clear memory cache after browsing

After we browsed the web, the copy of all the pages, images and download link are stored in our computer memory. Whatever we browse it will get stored in the browsing history. We can delete the browsing history, cookies, saved password in the system and the web form information. To delete all these things right click from the internet explorer-properties-general-delete all. Once we had given delete all it takes all the browsing history, saved password, cookies and other web form information from the system.

In the above internet properties we can delete the files history, cookies, saved password and web form information. If we click on delete the below screen will appear on our system, we can delete whatever files that we need as shown in the figure below.

Reject unnecessary cookies

Cookies will store the browsing history on the hard drive of our computer. The cookies will remember the username and password that we entered in any website. Even we can search in our hard drive the word called cookie. We can delete the cookies from the preference screen. In the internet explorer delete cookies by clicking on the delete files from General icon of tools, Internet options menu. In the above figure it shows the clearly how to delete cookies.

Privacy Threats on the Web

The internet user increasing every day, the user should beware how to protect the privacy on the web. Whenever we browse in the internet it get stored in the temporary internet files. All the website address gets stored in the history. There is much software to protect the privacy on the web, the software called Evidence Blaster has an effective method of erase the internet history and remove all the windows and internet evidence.

This software is available in the entire leading store in UK like PC World, Curry’s. Even we can purchase evidence blaster directly from the . It will cost us only £12.99. It is not the only software to protect privacy on the web; there is much software available in the net to protect privacy on the web.

Norton confidentiality is also one of the leading software in the industry to protect the privacy on the web. It has a key technology of website authentication, antipharming, antiphishing, crime ware heuristic, Analysis, Password Encryption, and security. These are the effective key technology available in Norton Confidentiality.

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It is very easy to download, user friendly and it guides us how to install Norton confidentiality. We need to follow only the instruction. Norton confidentiality provides a lot of facilities like protecting us from security threats.

How identity theft occurs

Identity theft is a rapid growing crime in all over the world. It is very easy to consign that even simple criminals can steal your identity.

  • Personal information can be stolen from corrupt employee
  • Most of them throw away their personal details by careless, especially business people.
  • Personal information is mostly sold by ...

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