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Cybersecurity within mass media

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SQL injections and DNS attacks are the most common cybersecurity threats to media agencies.                                         Source: Youtube.com/trendmicro Technological advances in mass media and communication have shaped and changed society in many ways. One major way is through cybersecurity. Before 1990 there was no such word as cybersecurity but all of that changed when the internet quickly became a part of people’s lives. According to Salem Press Encyclopedia, only 1% of telecommunication networks sent information over the internet in 1993 (Warnes, 2019). Compare that to the 107 trillion emails sent, or the 255 million websites in 2010. It may come as no surprise that the same year seen 262 billion spam emails sent. Cybersecurity is something we are hearing about more often due in part to large companies and organizations bein...