The Internet is a wondrous place where anything can happen. You can write an influential piece online. You can move peoples to action from social media. You can engage in activities like talks, you can make purchases, you can pay bills. You can do almost anything on the Internet and the ‘almost’ here is there as a margin for error (simply because nothing is fool-proof). Because of this, people are most vulnerable when online. Security in this sphere is not like it is when we are talking about what happens in person.
Threats appear in many different shapes and forms. In email proclaiming winnings, you can lose money. In websites offering freebies, you can find hidden credit card charges. In ads, like pop ups, you can find hackers or viruses. Pop ups are those small windows with ads that literally pop up as you browse. Now most browsers have built in blockers proving that they are indeed unsafe.