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With the development of the magnificent World Wide Web (WWW) and the migration from mainframe to client-server, the need for increased awareness and security measures has become imperative. Computer crimes account for losses of more than one billion dollars annually. Computer criminals manifest them...
Advances in telecommunications and in computer technology have brought us to the information revolution. The rapid advancement of the telephone, cable, satellite, and computer networks, combined with the help of technological breakthroughs in computer processing speed, and information storage, has ...
Computer CrimeTechnology experienced a break-through with the invention of computers. With this break-through came a new quest for knowledge and power. Society relies more and more on computers each day and people have found that a quest for knowledge or power on a computer could give them more th...
"Who invented the computer?" There's no simple answer to this question. The real answer is that many inventors contributed to the history of computers. A computer is a complex piece of machinery made up of many parts, each of which can be considered a separate invention...
Computers are an invaluable part of almost every financial institution and service around the world. Stock markets depend on them to make fast transactions and to support the growing economies in today¡¯s world, and in about every office you find computers. Without computers to support financia...
Over the past month you could not pick up a newspaper without finding an article about the recent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks on E-commerce sites over the Internet. This increase in Internet security problems and crimes, is paving the way for tougher legislation in regards to monitoring and t...
An issue of concern at is Computer privacy. Computer privacy techniques have been developed to protect single computersand network-linked computer systems from accidental or intentional harm. The main reason for protecting these computers is tokeep them from physical loss of data, deception of compu...
Computer crime is any illegal act which involves a computer system whether the computer is an object of a crime, an instrument used to commit a crime or a repository of evidence related to a crime. Telecommunication crime is the fraudulent use of any telephone, microwave, satellite or other telecomm...
With advancements in technology increasing every day a new breed of crimes have surfaced. Computer crimes, which are crimes that are committed by expert use of a computer, have escalated since the introduction of modems in the 1960's. In today's computer world computer crimes are even more abun...
In the current world of computers, security has become a major source of contention among the industries leaders. Digital security, in particular, is one of the most heated topics of debate, and companies compete daily to offer the best, most cost effective and practical digital security soluti...
As more and more people use Internet for pleasure, more and more criminals use it to break into remote computers to steal information, plant viruses, or simply change user names and passwords. In any case, many online computer networks are vulnerable to outside hacker attacks. This can target ho...
Although it is never possible to fully prevent the unauthorized use of information from people with security clearances and access, the use of security clearance and access is important to ensure that people without security clearance cannot access the confidential information. In other ...
Below the surface of the Internet lies a new community that is testing its moral and ethical boundaries. The advent of the computer has brought about many new subcultures. Its technology has helped form the ethics and morals of this new underground. They have thus far developed, with a liberal 60&a...
Computer HackersComputers hackers have terrorized many people's computers. If people were acknowledged about hacker's evil duties, lots of computer hacking might have been prevented. Many computer hackers are the less sociable people. They usually have very few friends and use the computer to hav...
Workshop 10 Workshop 10 Averett University Workshop 10 9.1-1 Describe what yesterday would have been like if you had not used the capabilities of computers. Keep in mind that businesses with which you deal rely on computers and that many of your applian...
In this day and age, computers have become a common necessity of everyday life. Anyone who has not joined in this new era of technology will soon be left in the dark ages. Along with the computer advancement has come the Internet, which is an intricate connection of millions of computers around the ...
There was once a guy who had a computer, which contained access to many important files and large sums of money. He did not have adequate security so his computer was hacked and all the important files and all passwords to the bank accounts stolen and then obliterated from his computer, his address ...
Firewalls Everyday millions of people around the world use the Internet for corporate use, research, and personal uses. If each person uses one computer to access the Net at any one time, that is trillions of bytes of data. People are in danger of being "infected" or "hacked" ...
Loophole Or A Conspiracy?Virus, Hmmm I am sure that you have heard this word before. I am not talking about the living virus like an influenza virus. I am talking about the computer virus. According to the New York Times, Microsoft, Compaq, and Hewlett Packards computers are at a great risk. I wonde...
ECE 180 PRODUCT CREATION IDEA To: Tom MurphyFrom: Trevor HartmanSubject: Interactive GlobeDate: 13 February 2001 This memo's purpose is to present to you my new idea on the world's first interactive globe. I wish for you to review my interactive globe idea and authorize it for p...
To Whom It May Concern: The staffing and the maintenance of staffing information in our company is fraught with problems and needs to be revamped. The many tasks associated with tracking personnel data; employee hours; paperwork such as I-9 forms, applications, and that associated with disciplinar...
Bidder's Edge was a content aggregator that repeatedly copied Ebay's database (through the use of bots or intelligent agent software) and aggregated Ebay content with data from competing sites to allow its users to simultaneously search multiple auction sites simultaneously. Bidder's...
The field of network security is a very dynamic, and highly technical field dealing with all aspects of scanning, hacking, and securing systems against intrusions. There are many positions related to this, however, the most common would be that of a Network Security Engineer, a Security Research Ana...
Internet-connected computers are at risk. And it's clear that anyone who does business on the Net is vulnerable. Corrections, defenses or patches exist for most flaws, but when they're not installed, the systems are vulnerable and attacks succeed. As it is stated on Computer World magazine, as the s...
1.0 Introduction The internet has played a major roll in the development of business and domestic industries. It is an everyday element in each and everyone's lives. Through chat, surfing, shopping and banking. But society has now been confronted with the issue of security, primarily securit...