To Review Safety of the Internet and Privacy of New Production Methods
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2016
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Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Abstract
At present 40% of the world population use internet daily. The percentage keeps on increasing
day by day. According to the Alexa ranking, Google.com, youtube.com, facebook.com,
Baidu.com, Yahoo.com, and Wikipedia.org are the widely used websites and search engines
today. Moreover, there are uncountable number of active accounts existing in the internet. At
times, apart from personal details of users, those accounts also include sensitive data. Several
policies of creating passwords such are using number of digits, using symbols, using upper case
letters and lower case and need to update passwords within several period of time are in use
throughout the world. The main objective of this is to prevent and minimize the chances of
attacks such as Hacking, Hijacks, Trojans and Key loggers. Nevertheless, there are high risks
of account passwords being hacked and gaining unauthorized access to accounts due to some
practices of users which include saving passwords on the browsers and using very simple and
guessable passwords. Most of the time users tend for these practices due to the difficulty in
remembering complex passwords and unwillingness to type passwords over and over again.
This issue could be addressed through high security password encryption and decryption
software and developing high security Password Saver Software (All in one Password)
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Internet, accounts, security, password, software, privacy
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Perera, L.C.P. and Ekanayaka, E.M.P.M.B. 2016. To Review Safety of the Internet and Privacy of New Production Methods. In proceedings of the 17th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2016, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 41.