9 Online Scams & Cyber Threats To Avoid In 2011

Dec 29, 2010 English 1st Paragraph

As more of our existence seems to transfer to a digital realm, our vulnerabilities will also make the shift. Security tech company McAfee has just announced its predictions of the largest emerging cyber threats of 2011:
1. URL Shorteners, 2. Geolocation Services, 3. Mobile devices, 4. Apple…

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• A scam is an illegal plan for cheating people and making money.
• Cyber threats are dangerous things on the Internet that can cause problems for you.
• to transfer to a digital realm: to enter the digital world, to become digital
• our vulnerabilities will also make the shift: our weaknesses also change, we will have new weaknesses because of our digital way of life
• emerging: starting to exist, starting to appear
• The URL is the Internet address of a webpage usually starting with http://www… URL shorteners allow a long address (which is difficult to remember and type) to be replaced with a short one. But because you cannot see the real address, this will make it difficult for you to be sure that you are visiting a safe and trustworthy website.
• Geolocation services are services like GPS that make it possible to find your present location (= where you are at the moment). This can be used by criminals, for example, to burgle your home (= steal things from your home) while you are away, because they can geolocate you (= use your mobile phone etc to know your present location).