This document discusses various internet security threats such as email spam, email spoofing, phishing, pharming, spyware, computer worms, Trojan horses, computer viruses, and hackers. It provides definitions and descriptions of each threat, explaining how they endanger internet users by stealing personal and financial information or taking control of computers without authorization. The document aims to educate people about these dangers in the internet in order to empower them with knowledge on technology security issues.

1. Dangers in the
InternetEmpowerment Technology
Reporters: CherryAnn Rin Sindol
Jayvon Campana

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3. Email spam
Email spoofing
Phishing
Pharming
Spyware
Computer worm
Trojan horse
Computer virus
Hacker

4. Email Spam
•Also known as junk email
•It is usually unsolicited commercial
email sent from one source with
identical message sent to multiple
recipients.

5. Spammer - the term used to refer
to a person who creates
electronic spam.

8. Email Spoofing
•This refers to deceitful email
practice in which the sender address
is changed, so that it would appear
to have come from a different source
usually someone you know.

10. Phishing
•This is a deceitful practice of trying
to get confidential information such
as passwords and usernames, and
credit card details by making it
appear as if it comes from a
trustworthy source.

12. Pharming
•This is a dangerous hacker attack
on a website which directs all traffic
to the website to another fictitious
website.

13. •The main object of pharming is to
obtain username and password, as
well as credit card and financial
information, and use these to steal
their money electronically or use the
credit card of the victim.

15. Spyware
•This is a computer program that is
installed covertly on a personal
computer to collect information or
even take control over the computer
without the knowledge of the user.

18. Computer Worm
•This is a dangerous computer
program that replicates itself
through a network.
•They usually spread on their own
without attaching to a program or
file.

20. Trojan Horse
•This is a form of a malicious
software fronting to perform a good
task, but covertly performs
undesirable function with the
intention of entering the computer
without the user’s consent.

21. •It can erase data, can allow access
of the victim’s computer, can
corrupt files, and can be used in
Phishing for bank accounts.

23. Computer virus
•This is a program that duplicates
itself and then infects the computer.
•It spreads like a biological virus,
wherein it attaches itself to a host
program and infect other computers
if it is received by a computer
through the internet.

24. •The virus can also be transferred by
the use of removable storage media
such as diskette, CD, flash drives,
memory cards, and others.

26. Hacker
•This is a person who is able to enter
and control other people’s computer
without authorization.

27. •A hacker is able to enter another’s
computer, usually vandalizes the
victim’s website, steals personal
information, obtains intellectual
property, and performs credit card
fraud.

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