Introduction/Summary The Internet has become a greater medium of communication, data exchange, and entertainment over the past 5 years. With this widespread growth of Internet access, there come growing pains. These growing pains come in the form of people who are up to no good and want to ru...

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 ...

How many people make purchases online? What is the percentage of Americans who conduct their personal financial business over the Internet? Did he or she ever think that their credit card information could possibly be stolen? Internet security for online buyers and eMerchants has become more of a...

The Internet can be a vicious placeThe World Wide Web is an excellent source for information, shopping online, email, online games, or to just browse through and find what you're looking for. The Internet has become a vast marketplace for global goods and services. But in order to feel safe about tr...

China and the InternetThe worldwide network of computers known as the Internet poses an interesting dilemma to the government of China. The widespread and cheap access to unrestricted information that the Internet offers could pose a serious threat to the authoritarian government of China. In cont...

1. Introduction The computer and the Internet have become important tools used in the lives of many all around the world. Traditionally the computer and the Internet are used as an information tool, although it is beginning to be used for unlawful activities, such as a way to distribute child pornog...

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" ...

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...

Computers have gone long way from its first invention to today\'s high speed machine that plays big role in mathematical modeling to the fields of medicine. Further down as the computers reduced in sizes they took on different purposes in communication, digital media (photography and now DVD), sho...

Internet Security ContentsIntroductionPage 11.0 The main e-commerce security issues.Page 21.1 Privacy/ConfidentialityPage 21.2 IntegrityPage 21.3 AuthenticationPage 21.4 RepudiationPage 21.5 AssurancePage 22.0 What are the current attempts being made to improve e-commerce security?Page 32.1 ...

Controlling the InternetCensorship plays a role in everything that is portrayed on the Internet. However, due to the size and its rapid growth, it has become almost impossible to control. In respect to censorship in the Internet, we will be examining the issues of pornography, privacy, security, a...

1. Introduction The computer and the Internet have become important tools used in the lives of many all around the world. Traditionally the computer and the Internet are used as an information tool, although it is beginning to be used for unlawful activities, such as a way to distribute child por...

Network Security As networks are growing broader and larger there needs to be a system to protect and secure the information on the net. Importance of network Networks are formed to share information, communicate, share single hardware devices like printers, scanners, etc. Businesses a...

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...

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...

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...

To deal with hackers who break through office systems through the Internet it is important for information managers to understand their enemy well. If they have sound background knowledge about hackers, they might be prepared to deal with them in a much more effective method. Hackers are very educa...

To deal with hackers who break through office systems through the Internet it is important for information managers to understand their enemy well. If they have sound background knowledge about hackers, they might be prepared to deal with them in a much more effective method. Hackers are very educa...

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...

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...

DATA SECURITY COMPROMISE: Every data transaction which takes place on the internet basically consists of three things - a client, a link and a server. This model can be applied to web commerce, to health care organizations, to government websites, basically to anyone who is offering informatio...

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...

If figures must be believed, the virtual world is not exactly a safe venue for business or private affairs. In its sixth annual Computer Crime and Security Survey in 2001, the Computer Security Institute of San Francisco reported on mounting financial losses to computer crimes and ot...

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...