Week 5 (was absent during seminar)

Lecture Reflections.

During the lecture, we learnt about Information System Crimes, and Security & Controls.We were taught about the various computer threats that are commonly found. We were shown videos of how dangerously easy it was for hackers to get into our phones and steal all our personal information. It showed a group of hackers who came together to demonstrate how easy it was for them. The most common way for hackers to hack into your phone is by setting up a fake WI-FI network. Because of how convincing it looked, people would put in their email, password, and number to log into it. By then, the hackers have got all the essential information to take all personal information from you, and could then go on to steal your money and so on. In this lesson, it taught me to be more cautious about security on my devices. I should not use the same password for every website I use, as it would make it so much easier for people to hack my devices. I should always check the validity of anything I click on and be cautious about any websites that look shady; as this could result in a virus being planted, which is another way for hackers to get into any of your devices.

Group Work.

This week, we met up on Tuesday to tell the rest of the group members (who were absent from the meeting last week) about our change in companies. We talked them through just as we did the others in the previous week, and have now decided as a group that we will be using Lebara as our company to interview.