How safe are you while you are on the computer? Using your anti-virus, and your firewall, perhaps other methods of keeping you safe, like keeping all of your software up to date will keep you fairly secure. Not everyone does this though, not keeping software up to date, or even your operating system. If you don’t update some vital software that you run on your computer when there is an update it can compromise all security on your machine, giving a hacker full access to your system, even giving them the ability to hack your webcam and see you while you are sitting at your computer.
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Mark Ward of the BBC wrote an article showing us one vulnerability that some people have when they don’t keep Java up to date. You can view his article Licensed to hack: Cracking open the corporate world HERE. He shows us how he was able to inject coding into a website which notified him when someone had viewed the page and then gave him full access to their computer. This isn’t just for some kid sitting in their moms basement writing code, or anything, this is also for big corporations which have loads of hits each day. Corporations are able to easily gain control of users computers, accessing files, spying on them, and giving them an inside edge to their customer base.
The only suggestion I can give you to prevent this from happening is to make sure that your computer, and everything running on your computer is 100% up to date, though it doesn’t seem like that will prevent someone from gaining access to your computer, it is just one preventative measure that you are able to take.
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