Question and Answer
How are browsers being used to mine crypto currency?
What is an example of malvertising? How does malvertising impact you?
Provide two security risks associated with email. How can these risk be mitigated?
What two additions can you make to your browser to improve security?
Provide a brief 4 step-by-step tutorial for each addition.
Compare and contrast the browser “tails” with “chrome” from an Internet Security perspective.
Provide three reasons to and three reasons not to adopt tails as your primary browser.
How many cookies are on your computer?
Provide the contents of a single cookie.
Review the advanced settings in your browser.
Identify and describe two advanced settings that you were not aware of that were configurable in your browser
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Browsers are being used to mine cryptocurrency by Webmasters who include codes to their browser pages so that they can receive slivers of currency from each of the visitors. This money got from hosted scripts sums up and transferred to the site’s administrator (Caban, 2003).
An example of malvertising is when around March 2016, major news websites had the advertisements posted to their websites temporarily hijacked to include some form of malware in the advertisements.
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