Security & E‐Consumer Awareness
Security & E‐consumer Awareness
When you buy a product from an online store you expect the company to keep your data safe from loss and damage. For the company to do this they need to look in to threats to the data and how to stop this, a company needs to know the laws of data protection and different ways to prevent this like firewalls and antivirus software and encrypting the customers data to stop people reading it, this report will tell you about the types of threats ways to stop these and the laws of data protection. All companies should do a risk assessment; they should do this to make sure that the data on the computer is safe. A risk assessment finds risks and then rates them and then says how they will be fixed.
Threats to your data through an Organisations website
Data intercepted by copycat website or phishing
Data intercepted by use of copycat web site. The way they do this is to send you an e‐mail for example saying you have to check something on your bank and at the bottom of the email there will be a link that looks like your banks website but in fact it sends you to a different website that looks the same and then you enter your detail to your bank then the owners of the copycat website will be able to take your identity and your money. Here is an example of how they do this underneath.
As you can see the address in the email will be spelt wrong or have something extra like this one has an ip address in the front this is a big give away because professional bank website would just have the bank name, this kind of e‐mail is usually blocked by your spam wall in your e‐mail address but if you do get an e‐mail from the bank type the URL in the search bar or search engine
The one on the right is the correct one because as you can see there is no number in front and it just says the banks name, also you can see there is https which stands for hypertext transfer protocol secured this is only on the official bank website to try
When you buy a product from an online store you expect the company to keep your data safe from loss and damage. For the company to do this they need to look in to threats to the data and how to stop this, a company needs to know the laws of data protection and different ways to prevent this like firewalls and antivirus software and encrypting the customers data to stop people reading it, this report will tell you about the types of threats ways to stop these and the laws of data protection. All companies should do a risk assessment; they should do this to make sure that the data on the computer is safe. A risk assessment finds risks and then rates them and then says how they will be fixed.
Threats to your data through an Organisations website
Data intercepted by copycat website or phishing
Data intercepted by use of copycat web site. The way they do this is to send you an e‐mail for example saying you have to check something on your bank and at the bottom of the email there will be a link that looks like your banks website but in fact it sends you to a different website that looks the same and then you enter your detail to your bank then the owners of the copycat website will be able to take your identity and your money. Here is an example of how they do this underneath.
As you can see the address in the email will be spelt wrong or have something extra like this one has an ip address in the front this is a big give away because professional bank website would just have the bank name, this kind of e‐mail is usually blocked by your spam wall in your e‐mail address but if you do get an e‐mail from the bank type the URL in the search bar or search engine
The one on the right is the correct one because as you can see there is no number in front and it just says the banks name, also you can see there is https which stands for hypertext transfer protocol secured this is only on the official bank website to try