This is Halloween! If you thought haunted houses, scary costumes and tales of ghosts were scary- think again. Prepare to our September Spooky Internet Facts Infographic.
I n honor of Halloween and the end of October, Cyber Security Awareness month, here 7 Internet Spooky facts to scare your socks. Censorship of the Internet for violations of espionage and online security, we have a lot of surprises is spooky.
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1. Over 60% of the world population still lacks access to the Internet.
Yes, it is true. In a world of 7.2 billion people, more than 4.4 billion lack access to one of the largest, the resources of a defining 21st-century world.
In 2014 McKinsey & Company report to 6 countries, this percentage is close to 0% of the population or more. This includes Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Myanmar. Myanmar, number one in the category of countries with the least access to the Internet has an impressive rate of 99.5% of those without Internet access.
It is estimated that 64 percent of the population out of the world live in rural areas, poor with poor infrastructure, health and education. In fact, about 28 percent of people without Internet access are illiterate.
When considering the Internet behavior patterns of the western world, it is surprising to discover that many of those without access are relatively young. The Washington Post reports that m ore than 80 percent of people aged under 55 and over 42 percent are under the age of 25. With the Millennium Development Goals t he UN has committed to obtaining the remaining 60 percent of the world's population online by 2020, and a challenge, it is certainly a worthwhile goal .
2. More than 60 countries worldwide Internet Censor
The Internet is not the only concern, free access and open to the Internet is at risk and more than 60 countries around the world censor the Internet.
In China, some of the most popular global sites worldwide are blocked, including Google, Facebook, YouTube and more. Turkey, on the other hand, blocks sites like Twitter and other social media when they want. According to the Huffington Post _kmq.push , they submitted 477 Twitter take down requests in 2014 alone.
Unfortunately, it seems that every year, the number of countries practicing censorship and those who are subject to these restrictions have increased. In 2015, Freedom House released its annual assessment of 65 countries with Freedom on the Net report They found that deletion of the content increased with 42 of the 65 countries that require private companies and users to restrict or remove content dealing with political religious and social issues. Unfortunately, this number increased to 37 in the previous year. In addition, they found that the arrests and intimidation have increased with authorities in 40 of 65 countries imprisoned share information about politics, religion and society through digital networks. Very scary ...
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3.. the NSA can read 75% of all Internet traffic in the United States
in 2013, Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, first described the details US intelligence programs to monitor phone and Internet traffic of America as reports like Ars Technica then revealed, it turns out that the agency monitoring programs that "touch" 1.6% of Internet- which is more than the scope of Google.
According to Reuters coverage of breaking Wall Street Journal Report , NSA retains the content of some electronic correspondence sent between US citizens and also filters of domestic telephone calls via the Internet. In particular, they are looking for communications of their origin or end abroad, or are completely unrelated and manage to pass through the United States. The NSA also demand that Internet service providers send "different streams of traffic are most likely to contain the Internet foreign intelligence" so they can then copy and search data.
Maybe full scope of the NSA on the Internet can be 1.6%, but even still it is quite a strong grip. If you can believe it, RT.com reported that during a six-month period around the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City 02, Utah NSA has worked with the FBI to monitor all e-mail and text messages. Now, with the passage of the controversial draft cybersecurity CISA law, it seems that their scope can develop.
4. 1-10 social media users have been the victim of a cyber attack
And also as blog cyber security, over 0,00 Facebook accounts are compromised everyday- means 219 million accounts per year. It is not surprising that social media platforms are lots of favorite pirate games when you consider that there are over 1.6 billion users in the world of social networks and more than 64% of users Internet access a social media online.
The new data GlobalWebIndex reveals that social networks now account for about 30% of time spent online, and given the fact that these platforms are the ideal settings for users to connect with their friends and family, hackers often take advantage building confidence in many ways. Among the most common pitfalls are the buttons 'Like' fake, phishing (attempts to collect private and sensitive information) via Facebook message or tweet, social spam and link-jacking (mainly diversion and re -Lead links to malware infected sites). So while you can be surrounded by friends on Facebook, be careful and do not click on any messages you do not know.
5. 61.5% of Internet traffic is generated not by humans but by robots as malware and Google- 30.5% of them are "bad bots"
If you thought that humans were the only snooping on the Internet, think again. The Huffington Post reports that nearly two thirds of all web visits are made by Internet robots, a name given to a wide range of software applications that crawl the web. Just over half of non-human traffic come from search engines and other bots "good" who do things like index pages and make the Internet more easily sortable for humans.
However, according to the study by Incapsula , 30.5% of the remaining non-human traffic is compromised "bad bots. These robots are responsible for the display of comment spam, data theft and distributing malware. One of the robots, TDSS, PCs infected most sophisticated to generate false views and sold for advertising. For those concerned about artificial intelligence support, it seems that when it comes to Internet traffic that day has already come!
6. 100 billion spam emails are sent every day
If you received a note from Nigerian President requesting a wire transfer, or a very particular view of US postal service- maybe you want to be careful. According to the Spam and Phishing report Kaspersky Lab over half of e-mails sent in 2015 Q2 were given the spam report results Static Email Radicati , thats more than 100 billion spam messages daily. The three main sources of spam were the United States (14.59%), Russia (7.8%) and China (7.14%).
While the spam level declined in recent quarters, these weeds Internet can still cut corners on your personal inbox. To fight against anti-spam measures, spammers come up with new and more sophisticated tricks of the trade, including sending malicious attachments under cover updates on the Internet. The report from Kaspersky details that emails containing short text message with detailed information promised in the attached document gaining popularity among spammers, as SEO related emails (optimization of search engines) offers and updates up to date.
7. Only 27% of VPN people worldwide have used
According to a survey published by the Global Web Index. This is quite scary, because in the face of all the spooky web robots and cyber thieves out there, a VPN is an easy foolproof way to ensure security and anonymity while browsing the Web.
When you connect to a VPN (Virtual Private Network), you are able to establish a Secure, encrypted private connection to another network . For example, when you connect to SaferVPN and connect to one of our global servers, anonymous IP address of our server, rather than your IP address, that is facing the world. This mask your current location, name, and Internet service provider and makes it appear as if you look at the place, while creating a tunnel for your data can not be intercepted by third parties.
With SaferVPN you can prevent a number of virtual threats spooky, including identity theft , data leaks and monitoring of third such as government entities, hackers and Internet service providers.
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