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Understanding Security Issues
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Understanding Security Issues

by Scott Donaldson, Chris Williams, Stanley Siegel
December 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
5h 45m
English
De Gruyter
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Chapter 7 Protecting Your Web Browsing

For most of us, browsing the internet, or “surfing the world wide web,” is one of the top uses for our personal computer, tablet, or smartphone. Whereas in the physical world, it is relatively easy to distinguish good neighborhoods from bad, in the virtual world different neighborhoods, businesses, and even countries are all just a click away from each other. It is easy to confuse www.organization.gov (a government organization site), www.organization.com (a private company site), and www.organization.org (a potential nonprofit site). And those sites are just a few examples. There are also websites ending in “.info,” “.biz,” and country code websites like “.us” for the United States and “.ru” for Russia, ...

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ISBN: 9781501506369