Security verses Privacy: How much do we need to be watched? You walk out of your house, get into your car, and drive down the street towards some unknown destination. However by leaving your house, someone sees you. They keep track of every move you make. This person already knows where you liv...

What is a VPN? A simple definition of Virtual Private Network, or VPN, as it is commonly known, is the use of a public network - mainly the Internet, to create private, secure wide area networks. A more formal definition of a VPN: a combination of tunneling, encryption, authentication, and access c...

Electronic commerce, also known as e-commerce, has developed rapidly in the last few years. In this paper, I will talk about the advantages along with the disadvantages of e-commerce. E-commerce consists of many things. People today are aware of the common phrase 'e-commerce', but there is a lo...

Explain the ways in which hacking is an offence under the UK Computer Misuse Act (1990). Illustrate your answers with examples and cases from the news or text books. Definition of Hacker: "Someone who uses computer skills to gain unauthorized access to computer systems", or "A mal...