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Much like the famous, wooden horse that the Greeks supposedly used to hide their troops in during the Trojan War, the Trojan horse malware (or just “Trojan”) operates almost identically. Instead of a wooden horse, the virus may appear as something harmless, such as an email attachment or a link to a website, and instead of soldiers hiding inside it, there’s malware.

Whenever we make social media accounts, we tend to skip past the terms of service. We’re required to check the box to say we read it, but very few people could tell you anything specific about what they’re actually agreeing to. We’re going to go through each set of points, and give a summary over what they stipulate.

Even though Net Neutrality stirred up a lot of discourse three years ago, there has not been much recent news about it. This stark contrast in interest raises one question: what were the long-term effects of repealing Net Neutrality, if any?

Identity theft affects millions every year. If you fall victim to it, your credit score can be destroyed, you can have difficulty opening new accounts, and you can even get in trouble with the IRS. If you haven’t gone through it, you can’t even imagine the intense amount of stress that identity theft victims are subjected to.

When protecting both your privacy and online accounts, you are your best defense. However, often overlook something excruciatingly important: their mannerisms on social media.

We already discussed the dire state of privacy legislation in the past, but that raises the question - is policy surrounding DDoSing similarly dismal?

While the rise of the Internet created many outstanding quality-of-life changes, it also unwillingly became an outlet for delinquency. While there is a plethora of methods at a cybercriminal’s disposal, one of the most potent and widely used is commonly referred to as “phishing.”

Privacy concerns tend to seem unimportant and not pressing to many of our daily lives. Whenever you see headlines about celebrities having their careers ruined in various ways on the internet, it can be easy to dismiss these events as not relevant to our lifestyles.