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How to safely use the internet?

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To avoid a security problem, you have to check the installation process of smartphone applications.


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By Justin Sungil Park, Sung Hoon Baik

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To avoid a security problem, you have to check the installation process of smartphone applications.


In recent years, internet security issue becomes one of the most critical issues in our society. Also, some of the experts in the IT industry argued the point, such as Smartphone security, Phishing website and Ransomware.

Notably, Facebook, one of the most famous social network services (SNS) in worldwide, had a problem in private data protection policy and Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Facebook, have to make explanations about this issue. This issue may impact on a young generation, who is a user of the SNS and, according to Finder.com.au poll data, 37 per cent of 18~23 year old and 33 per cent of Generation Y Australian adult highly worried about smartphone security.

To avoid a security problem, you have to check the installation process of smartphone applications. This is because, if the user denies some of the functions in a smartphone (for example, camera, address and message), the application cannot access to the data in your smartphone.

Also, every smartphone manufacturer and operating system company are offering software security policy update regularly, so the user needs to catch up that update. In addition, when the internet user is using an internet browser, please check ‘Lock’ shape or sign of ‘https’. It will give a chance to look up the website highly secured or not.


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