1. TECHNOLOGY GUIDE FIVE Basics of the Internet and the World Wide Web

2. TECHNOLOGY GUIDE OUTLINE TG5.1 The Internet TG5.2 The World Wide Web

3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Differentiate among the Internet, the World Wide Web, intranets, and extranets. Describe how the Internet operates. Discuss the various ways to connect to the Internet. Describe the parts of an Internet address.

4. The Internet – Intranet – Extranet – Darknet

5. Protect Your Internet Assets Know your Internet-accessible assets – Everything in the “cloud” – Everything you send or receive Texts E-mails Blogs Photos Nothing is ever completely erased from your Internet identity

6. Credit Help Get your picture on your credit and/or debit cards Write “require photo ID check” on the back of the card where it asks for a signature Check your credit report – www.equifax.com www.equifax.com – www.transunion.com www.transunion.com – www.experian.com www.experian.com

7. More Credit Help Annual Credit Report FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) FDIC Companies – LifeLock LifeLock – TrustedID TrustedID – CardCops CardCops

8. Avoid Trouble Keep organized Check all monthly statements, more often if you have online access Use a separate credit card for online purchases and use it only for online purchases Never store your credit card information at a web site Never Never

9. Things to Do Browse anonymously – Chrome (CtrlShiftN) – Internet Explorer ( http://browsers.about.com/od/faq/tp/Anonymous-Browsing.htm ) http://browsers.about.com/od/faq/tp/Anonymous-Browsing.htm Delete your browsing history Know the “tools” in your browser

10. Is Your Computer Infected? McAfee (www.mcafee.com)www.mcafee.com AVG (www.avg.com)www.avg.com www.uncw.edu/itsd

11. What Does A Firewall Do? Permits or denies data traffic from another computer based upon – Outbound communications that you do not initiate – Disables or at least requires you to accept letting programs from other sites execute on your computer while you are in a browser (ActiveX and JavaScript are the two main types of programs)

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13. Install Updates To all of your devices that connect to the Internet Updates almost certainly address security issues in addition to other issues listed for the update by the vendor Hackers live for update alerts and the users that ignore them

14. Read About IE 9 The features of Internet Explorer 9 are well documented on pages 442 through 444

15. Proxy Servers Anonymous surfing (www.anonymous.org)www.anonymous.org

16. Accessing the Internet Connecting via an online service Internet kiosks Dial-up ISDN DSL Cable Modem Satellite Wireless Fiber to the home

17. Addresses on the Internet Domain names – Top-level domain – Name of the organization – Name of the specific computer

18. The World Wide Web – Home page – Uniform resource locator