Potential Threats

There are many potential threats that lie within technology that come in many different forms, one of the most common threats are mostly found within e-mails that are made to look a legitimate companies in hopes to gain access to your personal information such as bank details, this is known as Phishing. Recently there was an article on the BBC news website on which two men were remanded for masquerading as a major bank company urging students on government loans to provide their banking details through e-mails, in result gaining £1m in total. It is not only career criminals who are potential threats in the world of technology, if you own a mobile phone that is compatible with blue-tooth and it is enabled anyone around you is able to hack into your files and freely browse, edit and gain possession them, such mobile applications such as Super Bluetooth 3.0 & Blue Sniffer are free to download and make hacking as easy as pressing a button, this is however illegal and known as Phone Hacking.  Phone Hacking has recently shot to fame and has made many appearances in the media, as increasingly more celebrities are phone hacked surprisingly by newspapers and gossip columnist where they obtained text messages, phone calls, photos & videos.