Security Awareness

     Security awareness is on the rise as the world becomes more advanced with technology and with these advances comes a great risk and power to have the everyday person not know what could be going on with there computer if in fact something terrible happens to it. People need to understand what the tell tail signs are when there computers are givings warnings or lying with fake look alike warnings! People should really keep there computers up-to-date and not leave their computer unprotected, those types of computers are the easier ones to gain access to faster and unnoticeable.

The contest by educause wants people to develop either a 2 minute video, a 30 second service announcement, or a poster talking about how people can secure there self's better when it come to crime watching. My impression of this contest would be that it is a great way to get people to explore more to show the average person that really doesn't know to much about computer security and simply easy ways to protect themselves from potential harmful users! The cyber watch people have been around since 2005 and work to provide people knowledge on either becoming a instructor, or just helping and showing people the wide verity that cyber watch has to offer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx2Xis3ztcM&list=PL44A766A8A3E0C2DA
Here is a short 7 minute video a little about cyberwatch

In the group project for the class my group is doing cyber safety.

There is a real question in this photo is the computer really safe and is the Internet as a hole safe too?? There are people and programs out there designed to ruin and destroy people with taking their personal information and taking over there computer knowingly and sometime not knowingly. The computers and Internet today is very far advanced people have gotten more clever with what and how they can hack or steal things!! This is where people need to bring there safety up while using the Internet because you never who or what can be taken at any given moment while using the computers!

this pie chart shows how people think they are ALWAYS safe when in fact that is simply not true! there is a low chance that you are always safe online, mostly with proper protection and watching what it is you are doing then yes because if you pay attention it is you are doing then you can keep yourself safe most of the time. This is where people need more information because we cant have everyone thinking they are always safe because that when people don't worry about what "could" happen to them because there not worried about it.

Is the Internet safe for the most part yes it is, when you apply the proper protection and don't fall for fake look alike then yes you can keep yourself safe, but don't let your guard down because at any point in one day something could happen to you!

Risky Business

     When it comes to learning about the Internet there are things that are common for people to know. In today's  day and age it more notable that the older users of computer are behind with the Internet while the younger people are able to find new and improved ways to get there wants and satisfy there needs for free, yes I said FREE! Back when the Internet wasn't as advanced as it was today people still did try to get things for free, the most common things were music movies and basically any form of entertainment. The difference from then to now is that there are hundreds of way to find anything you want for free, but still the more common use for this method is for music and movies. now that the Internet is to the point it is today you kind basically find anything that used for computers now the list can go on and on. When it come to committing these forms of acts they really are not so "FREE" when people understand the punishments for now what it called an illegal downloadable purchase or stealing. These were first discovered and investigated  among people having a P2P which is peer to peer sharing, which was at first determined legal until they found out people were stealing and sharing it to anyone for free. The highest punishment for downloading music is 5 year in prison or the other punishments of a fine of $250,000, and the last punishment is $750 per 1 song illegally downloaded music. imagine if your son or daughter downloaded say 9575 song over a time span of 2 years and they end up getting caught because they downloaded those last 25 songs she/he wanted. Now after court and the judge give the punishment of $750 per 1 song, now total that up your son or daughter will have to pay a grand total of $7,181,250. Now does a song for $0.99 sound so bad? I think not!

Here is a link of kid rock explaining what stealing music is like.
https://www.youtube.com/v/KUgB0hNf0bs?fs=1&hl=en_US

     What I have personal learned from this module is looking back on the time I've done these action I personal do not do them anymore. I downloaded music all the time ever since finding out about the fine, penalties and punishments I've gone back to my main computer were it was hold all the music and completely whipped out any and all music. It's really not worth it after find out what can happen to someone who is caught doing these acts. Like I said the Internet has come a long way and things are easily hack able and people can access your WIFI if not protected. That's the worst thing someone could come up to a random house without a locked wifi password, someone could come use it download who knows what and then end up with a knock on your door because the internet is in you're name.

This image here is the SSID where it shows was the name of my router and what Internet I have connected my computer too. The name of my router is the Motorola and yes this wifi is protected with a very confusing password that I created that even my family has a hard time understanding when they type the password in. The company did give us a default password but after finding out that its best to change the default password in this module that's what I did! I also changed many setting to make the Internet options from the default setting to what I showed everyone would be the safest settings!