Technology

in Action
Alan Evans Kendall Martin
Mary Anne Poatsy
Twelfth Edition

Technology in Action
Chapter 9
Securing Your System:
Protecting Your Digital Data and Devices

Major Threats to Your

Digital Assets
Cybercrime and Identity Theft
Protecting Yourself from Computer
Viruses
Protecting Digital Assets from
Hackers
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Cybercrime and Identity Theft

Objective
1. What is cybercrime, and who perpetrates it?

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Protecting Yourself from

Computer Viruses
Objectives
2. What are the types of viruses from which I
need to protect my computer?
3. What can I do to protect my computer from
viruses?

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Protecting Digital Assets

from Hackers
Objectives
4. How can hackers attack my computing
devices, and what harm can they cause?
5. What is a firewall, and how does it keep my
computer safe from hackers?
6. How do I create secure passwords and
manage all of my passwords?
7. How can I surf the Internet anonymously and
use biometric authentication devices to
protect my data?
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Cybercrime and Identity Theft

Cybercrime
Cybercriminals
Common types of cybercrimes

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Computer Viruses
Major Categories of Viruses

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Preventing Virus Infections

Antivirus software
Detects viruses and protects your computer

Popular programs
Symantec
Kaspersky
AVG
McAfee

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Understanding Hackers
Types of hackers
White-hat or ethical
hackers
Black-hat hackers
Grey-hat hackers

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Understanding Hackers
Trojan Horses and Rootkits

Trojan horsesAppear to be useful

Rootkits
Zombies

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Understanding Hackers
Denial-of-Service Attacks

Legitimate users
are denied
access to a
computer
system
System shuts
down

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Restricting Access to Your Digital Assets

Firewalls
Firewallhardware or software
Windows and OS X include firewalls
Security suites include firewall software

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Restricting Access to Your Digital Assets

Creating Passwords
Need strong passwords
Password strength tests
Operating systems have built-in password
protection

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Restricting Access to Your Digital Assets

Biometric Authentication Devices

Fingerprint
Iris pattern in eye
Voice authentication
Face pattern recognition
Provide high level of
security

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Protecting Your Digital

Property from Yourself
Managing Online Annoyances
Keeping Your Data Safe
Protecting Your Physical
Computing Assets
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Managing Online Annoyances

Objective
8. How do I manage online annoyances such
as spyware and spam?

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Keeping Your Data Safe

Objectives
9. What data do I need to back up, and what
are the best methods for doing so?
10.What is social engineering, and how do I
avoid falling prey to phishing?

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Protecting Your Physical

Computing Assets
Objective
11. How do I protect my physical computing
assets from environmental hazards, power
surges, and theft?

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Managing Online Annoyances

Malware: Adware and Spyware
Spyware
Transmits information
Tracking cookies
Keystroke logger

Windows Defender
Installs one or two additional
standalone anti-spyware
programs

Many antispyware packages

are available
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Managing Online Annoyances

Spam
Spamjunk e-mail
Spimunwanted instant messages
Tactics to minimize spam

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Keeping Your Data Safe

Backing Up Your Data
How might I lose data?
Unauthorized access
Tampering
Destruction

Backups
Copies of data used to
replace originals

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Social Engineering
Phishing and Pharming
Phishing
Luring people into revealing
information

Pharming
Malicious code planted on
your computer to gather
information

Guidelines to avoid
schemes
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Social Engineering
Scareware
Type of malware
Attempts to
convince you
something is
wrong and to
pay money to fix
it

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Protecting Your Physical Computing Assets

Power Surges
Power surges
Old or faulty wiring
Downed power lines
Lightning strikes
Malfunctions at electric company substations

Surge protector
Replace every 23 years
Use with all devices that have solid-state
components
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Check Your Understanding

1. What is cybercrime, and who perpetrates
it?
2. What are the types of viruses from which
I need to protect my computer?
3. What can I do to protect my computer
from viruses?
4. How can hackers attack my computing
devices, and what harm can they cause?
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Check Your Understanding

5. What is a firewall, and how does it keep
my computer safe from hackers?
6. How do I create secure passwords and
manage all of my passwords?
7. How can I surf the Internet anonymously
and use biometric authentication devices
to protect my data?
8. How do I manage online annoyances
such as spyware and spam?
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Check Your Understanding

9. What data do I need to back up, and
what are the best methods for doing so?
10.What is social engineering, and how do I
avoid falling prey to phishing?
11.How do I protect my physical computing
assets from environmental hazards,
power surges, and theft?

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