Criteria B

Internet security is mostly used to prevent identity theft by hackers accessing customer accounts that contain private information about users such as credit card information and social security numbers. Internet security uses encryptions to keep personal information and accounts safe. Encryptions send information by using algorithms or simply by sending codes that a few people know about. Encryptions are used to keep passwords safe and that’s when hackers use software programs. Hackers use programs to decrypt passwords and the way these programs work is by using trial and error and generating every possible combination to gain access. (Strickland, 2008)Sometimes when people don’t find what they want to buy on reliable internet sites such as Amazon, they find other websites or advertisements throughout the internet that seem real to trust but turn out to be fake. When you buy from these websites, the people that you bought from would cause identity theft and stealing from your credit card and leaving no traces behind of where they are or they would actually move from around countries so that the police cannot find them.