9 . Web browser history and saved passwords
The next lines are especially important to read for the users who are using web from public computers (internet cafe, libraries etc.). There is a lot of surfers who don’t bother to delete web browser’s history in the end and some of them even allow the browsers to save their passwords.
You can delete Firefox’s history in Tools->Clear Recent History
And check off what to delete and the time range
And again in the most cases that’s because of low knowledge in this area. But everybody of you probably know it’s very common to not just small number of users to click at every question box on the answer “Yes”. If you clicked on “Yes” that’s not the browser’s fault if it saves your login name and password.
You can reach Internet Options dialog through menu item Tools->Internet Options
What to delete?
Deleting the browser’s history records is really just the minimum you can do in the end of your surfing. Public computers could have installed keyloggers to sniff all keystrokes and there’s no help with deleting the history.
Useful information:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000510.htm
10. Stolen identity
One of the simplest tricks of stolen identity’s is the sending e-mail with the fake sender address. That’s not just a very simple attack, but it’s effective and there are a lot of free tools and services on the web what the attackers can use. The more complex variant of the stolen identity attacks is a theft of the whole e-mail, e-shop or “just” social network account. You can avoid many problems about the stolen identity of your web accounts by following steps I wrote above.
Conclusion
In this article I didn’t go far through the thing rather than explain the basics of the threats you can get trapped. Every issue I discussed in this text is pretty huge and there are many great texts about it. As you can see I described various problems you can deal with, but bad is you can meet any of them while using HTTP protocol. One and the most famous TCP/IP protocol, and bunch of the security issues.
Today’s web is the real web with a lot of technologies what are hard to maintain and keeping them safe for the users. New and more sophistical attacks are all over the web and even the security professionals are often in struggles about them. They need to learn every day the new things and improve the security software.
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