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There is likely a lot of your personal
information stored on your computer at home and at work.
Hijacking doesn’t just happen to cars and
airplanes anymore, it happens to people every day in their own homes and
offices at work. Browsers, DNS servers, computers and data banks are
hijacked every day, and unsuspecting people fall prey to numerous email
and website scams daily.
It’s all about your personal information. There is likely a lot of your
personal information stored on your computer at home and at work. You
probably access your bank account, credit card accounts and a variety of
other transactions that you can do online, including your utility
companies. The Internet is really quite handy; you can do everything
right from your keyboard. However, your Internet browser stores a lot of
this information in its cache. You can help to minimize these attacks by
clearing out your cache daily.
It’s quite normal now for us to go online to check the balance in our
bank account. What happens though if your bank account website has been
hijacked? Would you really notice? Would you really look at all the
words and spellings, check the site certificates of a site you visit
frequently? Probably not.
Phishers and pharmers tones are usually quite urgent, telling their
‘customers’ that it is important they update or validate their billing
information or account information in order to keep their accounts
active. This is when a pharmed site pops up, looking quite legitimate
and off you go inputting all the information the criminals need to steal
your identity. If you are actually a customer of the site that has been
hijacked, these pharmed sites give the air of a bona fide request from
the company. However, there are some major online companies that have
been hijacked and have been a victim of a pharmed website that looks
like theirs.
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