TECHNOLOGY TODAY has grown to such levels that nothing remains a secret. The latest invention and the concept of internet is playing a major role in blowing the moral values of the society and blowing the secrets, having a direct effect on the society, the economy and the security of the country.

Internet was introduced and developed for fast communication and to be a source for information, but in now the complete purpose of this has been changed. hackers, terrorists and other people with evil motives are causing a major problem. Let’s focus on some of the major issues that are dramatically changing the purpose and reason for the usage of internet.

The hackers

These are the people who have a in depth knowledge of internet, these hackers use their knowledge in finding and breaking usernames and passwords, which is very dangerous for the people who use their credit cards or other sources for internet banking.

The main goal of these hackers is to exploit the site and use all the important information such as credit card numbers their passwords and use them to rob the money from the concerned user who is completely unaware of this. Very recently such of these cases has come in to light in Hyderabad, Mumbai and other cities.

The hackers have openly thrown a challenge to the national security by directly hacking security websites. The government sites were hacked several times. The victim are business men and online bank users.

Terrorists

Today’s internet search engines provide a wide range of sources providing vital information to everyone. According to the latest information Pakistan based terrorists hackers use all this information in preparing advanced weapons and explosives. These hackers also try their best in breaking in to the network of the company and simply dump malware or harmful virus in to the network system, which will corrupt all the information causing a big loss to the company directly effecting the economic situation. It may take several days or may be months to set the network back on the right track. By that time the company may be doomed.

Information about chemicals used in preparing explosives is available. The messenger services provided by the sites have increased the risk; information of activities that are to be taken is passed with ease without even giving a chance of getting caught.

Spy cams and Pornographic Sites

This is the major issue destroying the morals of the society completely. Spy cams were used for security. These cams are now used to catch celebrities while they are in bathrooms or at the time of changing, the availability of cams in cell phones have increased the intensity of this, and the victims are women. They were watched at every step of their life from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed.

Coming to pornographic sites even a five year old can access to all kinds of porn sites with just typing the word sex in the search engine. Thousands of these sites have no restrictions and many of them provide free download of porn movies, nude pictures, inspiring youth and children indulge and practice sex at early stages dangerously effecting in bringing down the values and respect towards women in society. This time around the victims are youth and children.

The globalisation of the internet has made things more complicated and it is totally out of control. Officials have to wait for months for the cooperation of the management of the sites and to reach the roots of crimes but none of the logged cases were solved and not a single coin recovered. All one can do from getting robbed and stop their children and youth from accessing porn and adult sites is to have awareness about the safe usage of internet.

Most important steps that needs to be taken

• Never access online banking sites from outside sources such as internet cafes or centres or from working place unless it’s your own laptop of PC at home..
• Never reveal your account number and the password to any person for any reason.
• Do not respond to email asking for account numbers or any private information.
• Keep a close eye on ATM machines for hidden cams behind.
• If anyone notices any person taking a video or a picture of women or a young girl in public places without their knowledge one should act instantly in stopping them do so
• Do not share or upload pictures or videos to public sites or any strangers, unless they are family members of trust worthy people to avoid misuse.
• When using a social web browsers like Mozilla, flock etc, make sure that the remember password box is unchecked, or at the time of login a dialog box is displayed for remembering password, make sure that you click on never to the site and before leaving the system you have been using is cleaned from the browser . Every social browser has clear private data option make sure that pop up options are turned on.

Toolsàclear private data.

If you are using Microsoft internet explorer notice a small box in the bottom extreme corner has a lock symbol it represents the site is secured

In XP then Click on tools à select internet options à click on clear history and click yes.

In vista click on tools-à select Delete browsing history à then click on delete all àcheck the box also delete files and settings stored by add-ons and click yes.

• Use licensed antivirus such as Kaspersky 2009 which provides child production security, and always make sure that your antivirus is update and malware and firewall is always turned on.
• Monitor your children whenever they use internet.
• Make sure that the child protection is highly maintained in the operating system.

Following these basic steps helps to avoid damages and threats for a certain level.