Online Security Breach Research Paper

There always has been a lot of weaknesses in the security of the Internet. This leads to security breaches and component failure within the device that is connected to that Internet. However the security in the online world is ironically better than the security of our physical world. This report discusses faulty phone calls, secure websites and safety within the physical world. Many of the common issues leading to a security breach start with the user. There are pop ups and ads that flash on the screen of many users windows. Many of these ads are filled with infected viruses that act as if they were real. Users will click on those ads, thinking they are real, and download something they are "told" their computer needs in order to operate correctly. That is how malicious software gets installed on the computer. From there, the malicious software is designed to collect that users information whether it may be credit card information or logon credentials. This is very similar to the security in the physical world. For example, a woman receives a phone call from a number she does not know, happens to be a fake Microsoft agent. However, she cannot tell this agent is fake over the phone. The agent tells the woman her computer is infected and needs immediate attention. She then proceeds to give the agent all the information on her account and downloads the

On the digital side of this, most major browser manufactures focus a lot of their code to detect faulty pretenders like the agent that called this woman. The URL bar will turn green if it is a trusted website whereas if the website was fake the URL bar would turn red and alert the user to exit the screen. The only hope in the physical world is to know who you are talking to and that you have the correct phone number. Otherwise, there should be no information given to that caller on the other end unless they can firmly prove they are who they say they