{"id":1906,"date":"2018-12-19T20:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:02:40","slug":"cyber-attacks-more-likely-on-compulsive-smartphone-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Attacks More Likely on Compulsive Smartphone Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a little self control can actually save you from a world of cyber grief is what the scientists at the Michigan State University seem to have found. People with low self control tend to be more impulsive while shopping online. A fact that can easily put them at risk for malware attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of cyber crime has become more pronounced as the majority of the world&#8217;s population moves on to the technological advantages offered by a smart phone. Not everyone is savvy about keeping their phones updated with antivirus software even as they protect their laptops and computers vigilantly.<\/p>\n<p>It is this loophole that cyber criminals tend to exploit. By sending good deals via email from websites that a person may not touch during regular computer browsing, they are able to gather enough information from the smart phone to launch a cyber attack. This short sighted negligence can cost the individual dearly.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Homeschool-Science-Experiment-in-Astronomy---The-Magic-of-the-Universe&amp;id=2340868\">scientific research<\/a> helped solidify the finding that\u00c2\u00a0 there is a correlation between low self control and victimisation. The study was based on the behavior of over six thousand survey participants. A worrying fact is that hackers already are aware of this and are taking full advantage of the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a little self control can actually save you from a world of cyber grief is what the scientists at the Michigan State University seem to have found. People with low self control tend to be more impulsive while shopping online. A fact that can easily put them at risk for malware attacks. The issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}