Safe Practices for Life Online

1) Facebook, Twitter, Match.com

2) Students can face many different consequences by the misuse of social media and social networking. Consequences can range from something like being denied from acceptance to a university or new job, being fired from a job, or being arrested. There are so many stories about people these days who have put a picture on Facebook and have been "shunned" because of it. The things you put on the internet matter, and now more than ever, employers and other people have easy access to personal information.

3)
-Sexting: carrying on a conversation via social media, such as texting or messaging, that can include anything from flirting with another person, to talking about sexual desires and exchanging photographs.

-Cramming: trying to remember a large amount of information within a 48-hour time period before you will need to use the information.

-Cookies: a way for your computer or the internet to remember information that you have submitted to a website previously, such as a user name and/or password.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/all_about_cookies.asp

-Trojan Horse: a type of virus that appears to be something useful or from a trusted source, but once it is downloaded can cause damage to your computer, or annoy you in various ways.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/virus.asp

-Phishing: attempting or being successful at stealing money from another person using personal information gained from the internet.

-Spyware: commonly known as being the reason behind advertisements on the internet. Usually websites will offer to advertise for a company in exchange for a portion of their profits.

-Rootkit: can be used maliciously or for good. It hides itself or other things such as viruses from being detected by other programs.
http://www.avg.com/ww-en/faq.num-2353

-Zombie: a kind of virus that grants access to a computer hacker without the knowledge of the owner of the computer.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/Z/zombie.html

4) The user names listed are poor choices as user names because they say something about a person that can be looked at as inappropriate or negative. First impressions are key in our society, and people with a username like one on this list will be looked at negatively from the get-go.

5) Someone might harass a person with a username like the ones listed because they insinuate something about the person that can be taken in a wrong way. "FatMama" is an easy target because the person is calling themselves fat and is therefore giving "permission" for others to do the same. "Lookin4Luv" can be taken in a sexual manner by an inappropriate party.

6) All of these user names give personal information that can grant easy-access to personal information to anyone.
-Tom_Evans34: Gives both the first and last name of this person.
-Missy-13: Gives the first name and age of this person.
-AndyKarateKid: Gives the first name and a strong interest of this person.
-ViolinGurl: Gives a personal interest.
-restlinmatch: Gives personal interest.

7)
-i8sushi2: Good name. It doesn't describe any personal information about a person and cannot be taken in an inappropriate way.
-Soccerstar: Bad name. This could potentially give away too much information about this person by describing a love for soccer.
-Puppygirl1234: Good name. Does not describe any personal information.
-KeKe1995: Bad name. This describes both a personal nick name and year of birth.
-Bookworm: Bad name. Can be the basis for being made fun of and being called a "nerd" by fellow classmates.
-2BorNot2b: Good name. Does not give away any personal information.
-Choco-holic: Bad name. Can be taken the wrong way, and can be used as a source of embarrassment.
-CapitlOfens: Bad name. Implies that a person has a disregard for the law or has something against his/her country.
-AmrcanIdol2: Good name. Cannot be taken the wrong way, and does not give personal information.
-BellaIsabella: Bad name. Gives a name and potential nick name.
-DarkAngel666: Bad name. Can be taken the wrong way and give a bad impression of the person, and some people could use this as a source for embarrassment.
-Karla-Love-1996: Bad name. Gives personal information.
-SimpyMe: Good name. Does not give personal information.
-gUn4hiRe: Bad name. Can imply something inappropriate which may offend or scare other people.
-babyfaceLA: Bad name. Can be used as a source for embarrassment.
-Watup?: Bad name. Can offend some people or imply immaturity.

8)
-tmcrim
-kheus
-countrygirl

9) -2

10) Most-Common Reason: others who know personal things about the students guess their password.
Least-Common Reason: Other students see the password as the student enters it on a keyboard.

11)
The video, "Malware Analysis: Drive-By Download" confronts a problem that many people may not be aware of. Especially those who are young and uneducated about all of the issues that can arise from contacting an inappropriate or unapproved website. This video also brings up some concern in my mind about the internet. I was completely unaware that anything like this existed, and I am concerned by the fact that it is so easily undetectable.
How many websites contain this virus? Are the websites aware of the virus? What precautions do popular websites take against this kind of virus or any virus? These are all important questions to consider. Especially when you think about how technology-dependent people are becoming in today's society. Through watching this video, I feel like more people need to be aware of how to protect themselves against threats.

12)
1: Are you protecting your identity? Medium Risk
2: Are you an unwitting accomplice in a crime? Low Risk
3: Authentic or Counterfeit? Low Risk

13)"Ransom-ware purporting to be from the FBI is targeting OSX Mac users"
This article describes a new type of ransom-ware that is beginning to target OSX Mac users. The virus disguises itself as a javascript program and encourages users to run it. When the program is being run, the user will click to a drive-by website that will cause a message to pop up disguised as being from the FBI. It requires that you pay $300.00 in order to get rid of the virus and have access to your computer. Users who pay the money will receive no benefit, in reality, all a person has to do is cose out all of their windows and reset safari.