passwords, credit card or bank information. Phishing is an internet crime in which someone masquerades as a trustworthy entity in some form of electronic communication. Pharming is a hacker's attempt to redirect traffic from a legitimate website to a completely different internet address. Pharming can be conducted by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by exploiting a vulnerability on the DNS server. Social engineering where people are manipulated or tricked into performing actions or divulging confidential information. Malicious proxy server (or other "anonymity" services). Use of weak passwords that are short, consist of all numbers, all lowercase or all uppercase letters, or that can be easily guessed such as single words, common phrases, a person's name, a pet's name, the name of a place, an address, a phone number, a social security number, or a birth date. Use of recycled passwords or the same password across multiple platforms which have become exposed from a data breach. Using the same login name and/or password for multiple accounts where one compromised account leads to other accounts being compromised. Allowing unused or little used accounts, where unauthorized use is likely to go unnoticed, to remain active. Using out-of-date software that may contain vulnerabilities that have been fixed in newer, more up-to-date versions. WebRTC is a protocol which suffers from a serious security flaw that compromises the privacy of VPN tunnels, by allowing the true IP address of the user to be read. It is enabled by default in major browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome. Reduction of risks to Internet privacy Inc. magazine reports that the Internet's biggest corporations have hoarded Internet users' personal data and sold it for large financial profits. Private mobile messaging The magazine reports on a band of startup companies that are demanding privacy and aiming to overhaul the social-media business. Popular privacy-focused mobile messaging apps include Wickr, Wire, and Signal, which provide peer-to-peer encryption and give the user the capacity to control what message information is retained on the other end. Web tracking prevention Protection through information overflow According to Nicklas Lundblad, another perspective on privacy protection is the assumption that the quickly growing amount of information produced will be beneficial. The reasons for this are that the costs for the surveillance will raise and that there is more noise, noise being understood as anything that interferes the process of a receiver trying to