As we step in 21th century there is
new era of technology in almost every field. The major effect of
technology on individual is that it socialize people which results in global village.
On the other hand number of mobile and web applications are developed to
commercialize businesses and as well as develop large amount of socialized
application. Whereas registering on these application could be more fatal for
the users because of their personal information requirements. These issues are
taken to next level when hackers attack on the particular application and took
users personal information including pictures etc. There are numbers of the
cases regarding hacking of most popular application including Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram here I'm mention these application because they are famous and
almost every smartphone user use them.
Recently, Globalstar tracking
system is one of the most famous tracking system in world. Which runs in
lower orbit around earth and claims to provide complete tracking mechanisms for
vehicles and any other required assert. Therefore most of companies around the
world use Globalstar tracking system services and feel safe and secure for
their businesses. Where as in reality BBC NEWS claims that they are not
secure enough to resists against routine hackers and expose all of the
confidential information of consumers to hackers. Furthermore BBC NEWS
shares personal experience of Mr. Colby Moore from security firm Synack, said
that “The way it passes data around is "fundamentally broken" making
it vulnerable to attack." He also claims that "it does not
encrypt the data passing between devices and satellites". Whereas the
system attempts to conceal what it does by changing frequencies and padding
transmissions with useless data. The system also does not check that data was
coming from where it claimed, he said. “I ended up figuring out how to decode
the data in transit". Which attracts hacker’s attention because of many
flaws in systems.
We as a consumers always look
forward for new application and feel free to sign in them and provide all of
the information they ask for. Most of the time people do that because they find
free application and people love to be socialize however none of the
application so far claims hundred percent guarantee to secure consumers
personal information. They always say that, chances of error is their but
they provide best security but users always end up insecure in all of the
application with personal password to any of confidential information.
