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Lesson 4: Ask Google: How can I be sure I’m surfing the web safely?The Basics of Safe Browsing
Learn what you should look out for while browsing the internet, along with some specific steps that you can take to stay safe and secure.
To learn more about how you can keep yourself safe while on the Internet, visit: internet-safety.khanacademy.org. Created by Sal Khan.
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- i just got a notification that google wants to know my location and i said block did i make the right choice ?(4 votes)
- Based on what you are doing. Suppose, you are using Google Maps, and google wants to know your location, that is a good thing. But if you are in another website that is entirely different from google, then you should block it!(7 votes)
- guys i gave google my age(3 votes)
- Well like Harika said, when you are on a different website then you shouldn't really do that. But for logging in to a google account or making a new one, it will be okay to do.(2 votes)
- hi thi is jayden(2 votes)
- OK. You wont need to tell us your name.(4 votes)
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- How can you figure out that these people are trying to get your information?(2 votes)
- my name is jacob what your name is(2 votes)
- do yall feel unsafe or som(2 votes)
- Sometimes it want to ask for your camera and what i did was press block.(2 votes)
Video transcript
- Hi, everyone. Sal Khan here from Khan Academy, and I'm excited to talk a
little bit about safe browsing. Our guest today is Kelly Hope Harrington, who's a Senior Staff
Software Engineer at Google. Kelly, welcome. - Thank you. Happy to be here. - So safe browsing, my sense of browser, we, you go to some websites,
it sends up some webpages. What's the worst that can happen? - Oh, well there, there's all sorts of bad things that can
happen on the internet, and I think some of the ones that are come to mind first are things like phishing or social engineering. So someone is trying to trick you into thinking they're someone you trust. So you share either your
personal information like your password or your
credit card information, or maybe you do something
that you wouldn't otherwise do because you trust them. And that could be something like downloading, installing malware. So, malware is something that
will take over your computer. The attacker is trying to
do something to get value out of you. So, maybe they want to take some of your personal data and
sell it on the dark web. Maybe they want to do
ransomware where they lock down your computer and
won't let you use it until you pay them money. Or maybe they wanna do something sneakier and do crypto mining in the background so your computer gets hot and slow while that's happening. We also see unwanted software. So, unwanted software might
have something that you do value but also does something else. - Yeah, so I just wanna
make sure I understand this 'cause we talk in other
videos about phishing where someone pretends to send
you an emergency letter from a bank or whatever, and many of those phishing
attacks usually try to get you to some type of a website. And this is where, once
again, you're browsing now. You need to make sure that that's actually the website
that you think it is. - Yeah, yeah. You know, I think that the attackers know you're looking for stuff, so they're trying to take advantage of you're already naturally trying to go and download something, and that is their opportunity
to try and trick you, and try and get you to do something that you weren't otherwise gonna do. - Super helpful.