Microsoft PowerPoint

Review your initial post from this week’s discussion activity on computer ethics. Use Microsoft PowerPoint to create a presentation based on your initial computer ethics discussion and associated research. To view a brief ‘How To’ video for creating a PowerPoint file for this assignment, click on the video in your course shell: Creating a PowerPoint (access this link through your online course)

Your presentation Should:

• Identify the key points you want to highlight.
• Contain a minimum of three slides in the body of the presentation.
  • Each slide in the body of the presentation should have no more than three bullet points.
  • Each slide must include animation.
• Include graphics, audio, video or embedded links as needed to support and enhance your topics.

In addition:

• Create a title slide that that includes a Title of PowerPoint, Students Name, Course Number & Title, Instructor’s Name, and Date, in that order.
• Create a reference slide that identifies all sources used within the presentation (including graphics or other multimedia)
• Format your references according to APA style as outline in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and use in-text citations where necessary throughout the body of your presentation.

Initial post from this week’s discussion

Once the World Wide Web was established and the public began utilizing it more and more for everyday use, criminals began to realize how easy it would be to use this new technology to steal your identity.

Identity Theft, this is the unethical behaviors of hackers to steal money for their own financial gain, was on the rise for the longest time once the World Wide Web was introduced to the public.  This, of course, was due to the public not realizing the dangers of the internet.  They would go to any website or answer emails with their personal information and think nothing of it.  Later they would realize, much too late, that their identity had been stolen.

In a recent article “Fighting identity theft can be an uphill battle” that I located in the Dayton Daily News, I learned that in 2014, 12.7 million people fell victim to identity theft. The most surprising part of the article was that this number was actually 3% from 2013. The article credits that “the decrease is due to the combined efforts of industry, consumers and monitoring and protection systems that are catching fraud more quickly” (Dayton Daily News, Web).

In my personal opinion, the number of people who fell victim of identity theft in 2014 is still way too high considering that everyone should know about identify theft and the simple ways to help protect themselves from this threat.  Such as, do not respond to emails from people or companies you do not know, if you receive an email from your bank, call the number on the back of your card and not the one provided to you in the email, have anti-spyware and anti-virus protection on your computer, and always make sure that the site you are using is a secured site.

Reference

North, J. (2015, Apr 12). Fighting identity theft can be an uphill battle. Dayton Daily News Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1672357384?accountid=32521