{"id":76,"date":"2023-03-18T02:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T02:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/?p=76"},"modified":"2023-03-18T02:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T02:39:33","slug":"journal-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/2023\/03\/18\/journal-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can tell if my computer is safe because when I am surfing the web, I use a VPN. No matter what network I am logged into, whether public or private, I always make sure my VPN is on. The VPN I use is SurfShark. It is easy to use, and it is low cost. It also has a built-in virus detector and does daily scans that run in the background, so I do not even know that is currently scanning. It gives me an in-app notification so that way if Whenever I send network packets across the internet the VPN will encrypt all the data. That way if there is a man-in-the-middle attack the malicious user would get gibberish on their end. get a desktop notification I would know it is fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way I can tell if my computer is safe is because I have biometric authentication set up so that way only, I will be able to log into my laptop. Whenever I leave the computer, I make sure I lock the computer so that way no one can use it without me knowing. I also rely on google to come up with strong unique passwords for all my accounts on the internet, except a selected few. That way all I have to do is memorize the password I made for google and I can log in to website accounts in a flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last way I can tell if my computer is safe is by not falling for any phishing attempts. Whenever I see a suspicious email, I automatically delete it. Gmail filters out all spam emails but sometimes some may slip through. Whenever I get an email that seems legit I check its certificate. This ensures that the senders are who they say they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can tell if my computer is safe because when I am surfing the web, I use a VPN. No matter what network I am logged into, whether public or private, I always make sure my VPN is on. The VPN I use is SurfShark. It is easy to use, and it is low cost&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/2023\/03\/18\/journal-8\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":25762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/jpisc004\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}