Online Security and Privacy should be a concern for anyone using online services to store, process, or access their personal information. While there are many reputable and trustworthy online services that can make your life easier, there are also security and privacy concerns that go hand in hand with these services.
Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn can make it easy to engage your friends and coworkers online, but they can also allow anyone in the world to access sensitive information about your and your family. Your contact information, home address, date of birth, hobbies, interests, and even your location can potentially be accessed by anyone in the world. This type of information can be used to target you and your friends, take over your online accounts, commit identity theft or fraud, or even inform an attacker when you’re not home so they know the opportune time to commit a robbery. Attackers are known to take this information and leverage it for malicious purposes, so it’s up to each individual to use security and privacy best practices to limit their exposure online.
