The Computer Underground: A Modern Threat to Computer Security The meaning of the word "computer" appeared in the dictionary long before many knew what a computer was. ... Computers are gaining more and more popularity. ... A computer hacker could be defined as an individual, associated with the computer underground, who specializes in obtaining unauthorized access to computer systems. ... For the average computer user, the most feared of the computer underground is that of the computer virus creator. ... It can also be used to facilitate system penetration by being attached to or imbedd...

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files onto computer hard drives. ... Several of these companies used Orwellian computer software that was initially offered for only $99 and had the ability to screen and record every keystroke on the computer with video like precision. ... Another major concern within computer security is electronic attacks by computer hackers on government and business computers. ... Even though it may seem immediate, an e-mail message travels from one's computer to several computer hosts across the world before finally reaching its destination. At every stopping point, it could be intercepted and e...

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However, as this new technology become more and more common in the society, the price of the personal computer become more affordable and reasonable to the public so that more and more people can pay for a personal computer. ... In another words, the personal computers popularisation greatly enlarges the network of Internet as more people have a computer, the fundamental needs for Internet, to get online. ... This software enable computers using various carriers such as telephone line, cable TV and satellite channels to send different form of data like text messages, sound file or an image to ...

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With today's growing use of computers and the internet a whole new world know has cyberspace has taken shape. ... Computers and the internet are merely tools to access this median between users and the massive amounts of information available. ... It is quite cheap and fairly easy to accumulate thorough information about people because of the advances in computer technology. ... Even though it may seem immediate, an e-mail message travels from ones computer to several computer hosts across the world before finally reaching its destination. At every stopping point, it could be intercep...

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Even a small measure of technical competency could prove deadly when dealing with patient records and any kind of insurance information stored on the local computers. ... Firstly, any kind of malicious software that could find its way on to any computer system present in the pharmacy can pose a serious threat to data integrity. ... Infected system also tend to perform less efficiently leading to a loss of productivity, if the level of infection is great enough a computer system could become completely unresponsive leading to a massive or total loss to productivity. ... An attacker using Troj...

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All of this data is commonly collected by host computers and stored on many different backup devices like CD, disk or tape. ... A firewall is a device that can monitor access into a network or individual computer. ... The transport layer guarantees an error-free host to host connection. ... It is responsible for routing, switching, and controlling the flow of information between hosts. ...

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Their site is driven more towards their processor line, displaying a list of their newsiest CPUs and ways in which their product can revolutionize the business world, such as web hosting. ... Intel has a majority of the contracts with leading computer suppliers, such as Dell and Gateway. They have been in previous history, the leading produce of processors for new computers. ... They later started to produce computer processors for computers and were the first to unleash laptop x86 processor. ... When it comes down to the consumer making a decision, as far as which processor to go with wh...

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That's probably not caused by some computer viruses, but the living one. ... Through the infected vectors such as swine, birds, human, viruses are brought inside the other's body and make it their host. ... Afterward, virus's gene strands through encoding process will replicate themselves by using the host's protein as material. From few numbers of virus at the beginning, they can multiply to billions and propagate in whole body of the host. Then this host becomes another infected vectors, rapidly spreads the virus to another one by coughing or sneezing. ...

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Niazi was invited to the 2013 forum alongside Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Stanford Computer Science professor Sebastian Thrun, among other distinguished panelists in attendance, to debate the topic of the year: online education changing the world ("Davos: 12-Year-Old Pakistani Prodigy Girl Talks About Her Online Learning - WiredAcademic"). ... Niazi is only one of thousands and thousands of students who have completed these rigorous, computer-simulated courses. ... As of recent, MOOCs have gained vast popularity and a number of websites have begun to host these courses taught by univer...

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This involves continually monitoring your employee's every move using techniques such as computer monitoring, which involves examining an employee's use of a computer both during and after it is used. ... Log Files: Computers are full of log files that provide evidence of what you have been doing (eg. ... Desktop Monitoring Programs: Every time you provide some form of input for your computer, whether it is typing a letter or number, or opening a new application, a signal is transmitted (Bosnor, 2003). These signals can be intercepted by a desktop monitoring program', which c...

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This research has lead to discussions about whether or not women are really using computers less than men or if women merely tend to use computers in different ways than men. Many sociologists now suggest that women prefer to approach computers as a way of accomplishing tasks while men tend to enjoy experimenting and playing with computers and their programming. ... Though the debate over the gender gap in computer programming may be far from resolved, sociologists only recently have begun to recognize that women are not discouraged by all types of computer use. Women do not seem to feel disc...

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In today's society our lives are computer and technology driven, and with this are growing problems such as identity theft, credit card fraud, and other important information that is stored on your computer and mobile device. We all have many accounts that use multiple passwords on ever increasing amount of computers and websites. It can be really difficult to maintain and manage access while protecting your identity and computers data. ... For example, a user identifying them to a computer or building by their finger print or voice is considered biometrics identification. ... Richard Smi...

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Memory management is a key subject under disciplines of computer science, software engineering and information technology. It is a function of the operating system that is concerned with managing the primary memory of a computer system. With memory management the computer manages every memory allocation to each and every process in the computer system and also manages freeing up of this memory that is allocated. ... It will update itself of all changes in the computer memory in relation to tasks or processes. The protections provided by memory management to the host computer are two; a base re...

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We provide the following specific comments and suggestions on potential accounting issues Essentials may face with respect to FASB ASC 350-40, Internal Use Software, ASC 340-20 Capitalized Advertising Costs, ASC 605-50, Customer Payments and Incentives, ASC 310-20, Non-refundable Fees and Other Costs, and AICPA SOP 98-1 Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use. ... During the individual stages it requires that we account for the costs of the development of new technology based sales channels as follows: - Planning Stage: Expense costs as incurre...

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Animations could be seen on films, video, or computers ("Animation", 1). ... This is all thanks to the sophisticated computer animation. ... Computer and communication technologies, like animation, continue to change therefore educational technology tools must continue to change as well. ... Doodle as the host, breaks each lesson into steps and allows time for practice before a new step is initiated. ... Stretch, a lamp, Smudge, the eraser, Penny, the ink pen, and Meg, the computer, can be seen on the show, too. ...

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It is a method by which Internet users publish generally public information on Internet-connected computers. ... For instance, there are several ideas that have been proposed in order to place safeguards to prevent transmission of X-Rated material onto the screens of the child's computer. ... Install and run SurfWatch in five minutes Ñ even if youre a computer novice. ... The intent of this law is that it is supposed to prevent the vile and hateful material on the net from being transmitted to the screens of computers being operated by children. Computer networks have special qualities o...

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Introduction Worldtech is a company dealing in computer services and products. ... It now hosts several departments and employs more than 100 people in the respective departments. The company deals in the design and development of computer software, games and hardware components. ... These departments are Research and development department, computer accessories assembly and maintenance department, marketing and sales department, and finance and administration. ...

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There are many fields in different industries that offer internship such as healthcare, retail merchandising, computer science, finance, marketing, administrative work, etc. ... One of the projects is taking care of cocktail party that president of Loyola hosts on April 30, 2003 at Springfield. ... In this present work, I can apply the computer knowledge into practice. ... Administrative work requires using computer programs, and developing own strategies. ...

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The people who do log on to social media websites while at work, are going to be doing so on company computers, tablets, smart phones, etc.[ CITATION Kat13 l 1033 ]. ... A good policy should include: limiting usage of personal electronic devices while on the clock, making company technology (computers, tablets, smart phones, etc.) for business use only, that the network may be monitored, and that there is no guarantee of privacy[ CITATION Kim12 l 1033 ]. ...

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"The pressure on sportswomen to increase levels of sponsorship and media coverage has seen many resort to taking their clothes off just to get some publicity."" Jan Borrie, the Canberra Times, 27 May 2000. Case study one Sports such as tennis are beginning to confront to tensions associat...

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"These are computer models designed to perform such route evaluations based on detailed inputs that include demand forecasts, operating cost estimates, and planned frequency and schedule of operations for the airline using the model.... Airlines may endeavor to capture a niche market only available for X amount of time (for example; the rugby world cup), this may lead an airline to open routes to the host nation from its home nation in an attempt to capture the market for that event. ...

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Aidan Cockburn argues, a strong means of spreading disease, in ancient populations from the very dawn of man to the present, is through the simple interaction of a host, parasite and environment (45). ...

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Besides the health concerns, something else that globalization has been criticized for, which is the accusation that it has opened the gates for restaurants which are insensitive to the religious beliefs of their host nation. ...

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In the future, television needs to continue to play a dominant role in displaying the NFL product and the league should continue to get larger and larger contracts to maximize the revenue generated by the sixteen weeks of regular season play, but a host of other support broadcast media needs to accompany the television broadcast. ... Maybe the NFL games will eventually be broadcast solely through the Internet where they can hook up their TV to their computer allowing them to choose their own camera angles, control slow motion and instant replay and choose their favorite announcers to call the...

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