Internet Security: Are Internet Users Secure, Really?

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Internet Security: Are Internet Users Really Secure? Years ago, many movies depicted how they believed the future would be like and how technology was governing all areas in life. Certainly, one could in some ways agree that we are already in that era where almost everything is computerized. We all love technological advances and stay in awe with many of them. We love our smartphones, tablets, computers and anything related to the cyberworld. However, not many people think of their own privacy being exposed to strangers due to the lack of security that unfortunately bubbles these technologies, specially the Internet. The estimated size of the World Wide Web 1 according to the Google index is 48 billion pages. Those numbers show that the internet has grown at an unprecedented rate and unfortunately, with this growth, the Internet security risks have increased. The fact is that Internet is not secure. According to engineer and researcher Peter G. Neumann and the privacy forum founder, Lauren Weinstein, the Internet use is riddled with vulnerabilities relating 2 to security, reliability, service availability, and overall integrity. As people navigate on the World Wide Web, they should be wary that all websites collect and sometimes share information about them, that Internet service providers may that track the pages they visit, that they could be under surveillance by secret agents and furthermore, that there are plenty malicious attacks that can be Richard Hiraldo ­ 2013 performed on all the network layers and protocols such as the Operating Systems, Web browsers, routers and switches, email systems, etc. A decade ago, computer viruses were among the most serious attacks that concerned companies and regular home users. Nowadays, hackers and other people that originate attacks, have developed new and more complex tools and
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