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...

Government Intervention of the Internet E-mail and Internet communications are not secure or anonymous, System Administrators and fourteen year-old hackers alike can pry into your personal or corporate mail. Others can read anything you send. Communicating by e-mail has been compared ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Government Intervention of the Internet During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization h...

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 ...

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...

"This site kicks-ass!!" Initially, the Internet was designed to be used by government and academic users, but now it is rapidly becoming commercialized. It has on-line "shops", even electronic "shopping malls". Customers, browsing at their computers, can view products, read descriptions, and som...

Electronic Commerce is defined by Webster's Dictionary as using computer networks to conduct business, including buying and selling online, electronic funds transfer, business communications, and using computers to access business information resources. The Electronic Commerce Association descr...

Computer encryption is based on the science of cryptography (Tyson, 2000), which has been used since the days of the Roman Empire. Prior to the technological age, the governments used cryptography for military purposes. The existence of coded messages dates back to the Roman Empire. However, mos...

Ensuring Your Privacy "Privacy. There seems to be no legal issue today that cuts so wide a swath through conflicts confronting American society. From AIDS tests to wiretaps, polygraph tests to computerized data bases, the common denominator has been whe...

sshUsed to protect against IP spoofing and source routingSSLUsed to provide security for general Internet servicesSATANUsed for remote scanning of Unix and firewall systemsKerberosUsed to reduce system vulnerability to .rhosts attacksFeatures of the Client/Server authentication exchange:The client u...

Complexity Theory - Cryptography by: Chuck Introduction One important, yet practical, application of complexity theory is cryptography. It has become one of the main tools for privacy, trust, electronic payments, and other forms of security. It is no longer just a military tool and the ad...

Computer CrimeJames George states that it is a story as old as humanity: "New times bring new crimes" (97, F1). First came cars, car thieves followed. Telephones were followed by telephone fraud. Now we have computers. Computers have made home, school and office life easier. Our society re...

Information, whether it is intelligence gathered during war or a person's credit card number transmitted for an online transaction, has proven to be a valuable asset in all functions of society. The nature of some information requires that it is will guarded and that it doesn't fall into the wrong h...

PGP stands for "Pretty Good Privacy." It is an encryption program. What encryption does is hide information from people who do not know the "secret word" to reveal the information. Louis J. Freeh, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says the honest have nothing to hide, and only c...

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...