... the public. The email messages that were being sent from the program were interacting with the web servers, making it very easy for someone to go through you email. (Oakes) The privacy loophole enables unsolicited emails to retrieve personal information on the receiver's computer using Web cookies ... lives that have to be fixed as soon as they are spotted. Sometimes, the recipient of the virus doesn't even notice that there is a problem. By the time they realize that someone has stolen all of their personal information, so much of their identity has been taken over, leaving them ... t...

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... internet to enhance their business. For them to succeed in this new global economy it requires individuals to feel little or no apprehension to give up their personal information. In order for consumers to feel safe conducting business online companies have to step up and take the necessary steps ... first category of threats is technical threats, which are also known as malicious acts. Probably the most widely known of these threats is called a virus. A virus is a piece of software that attaches itself to other software like a leech and is designed to attach itself to other applications...

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... other programs to shut down (). Personnel Crimes The second major category associated with computer crime deals with breaches of personnel security. Personnel crimes deal with intruders either pretending to be someone that they are not or by committing a crime against another person via computer. One of the most common types of personnel crimes is called masquerading. Masquerading is defined as the ... to facilitate more devastating crimes" (). Viruses and worms are very similar and many people confuse the two. In computer terms, a virus is a program that alters other programs so they r...

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... Rom drive and restart their computer with a click of a mouse. This type of hacking also involves viruses, which sometimes no matter how many anti-virus programs or how good they are you can still get them. All the time hackers are creating more of these viruses and finding easier way to get ... them. A modern virus, which is circulating a round, is an email virus. This is a virus you can get just by opening an email or downloading an attachment. Another type of hacking focuses on fraud, which involves using ... of you winning something. Then it asks you to send some money or give inform...

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... not the motivation in most cases. Hackers often complain that information should be free. However, one cannot purchase groceries for free. If someone generates useful information they usually expect to be able to feed and house themselves because of their effort. The hacker theory of free information ... the Internet and computers. All to often, a hacker is the intellectual version of those spray-painting teens. Feeling powerless, they can at least break into someone else's computer; leave a mark of some kind, thus, letting the world know that they exist. Of course, you c! annot stereot...

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... out his mission. Finally, cyber-terrorism has the capacity has to affect a larger number of targets than the traditional terrorism. For example, it was estimated that the I LOVE YOU virus affected more than twenty million Internet users and cost billions of dollars in damage. Cyber-terrorism countermeasures: Pertaining to Large Corporations First of all, corporations under threat must identify their ... means of protection. They are composed of a set of related programs located at a gateway server, which protects the resources of a private network from other networks. The use of e-mail ...

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... security systems, but today hackers are both people that help companies fix their security systems, and people that enjoy breaking into systems. When someone is referring to a the term "Hacker" then he is talking about a person that invades into another computer without permission to steel ... "exactly what we call today "hackers", but instead practical jokers" (Michelle Slatalla, 2001). A switchboard Source: http://www.powercom.com/ If someone wants to discover when the first hacking attacks against computers started then it is more logical to think back when then first computer was int...

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... 'copyrighted' it means that it is protected by one or various laws. These may state (a) Its illegal to make a copy of a certain software and then give it away to another person/friend; (b) Software may not be used in a network or on multiple computers without a license to do so; and (c) Code ... may not be extracted from the software in order to create one of your own, to later be sold. Virus A virus is a program or programming code that replicates itself in order to cause damage to a computer system. It usually attaches itself to files and may cause ... computers through email attachmen...

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... numbers where many people could talk at the same time. These numbers were constantly used by phreaks to share information. On one of these lines, someone suggested that John take a hacking nickname, so he chose "Cap"n Crunch" because he had discovered that a whistle from a box of the cereal ... in 1999 (Schwartau, 2000). In the nineties, the media begins to simultaneously glorify and indict hackers. Media stories run rampant about the latest virus outbreaks and system vulnerabilities, constantly reminding the public of the danger of hackers, and yet movies like Hackers portray hackers as...

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... ; and "Cortana", Artificial Intelligence that executes tasks via voice commands. Supporters of the advancement of Artificial Intelligence advertise their position online and give ample information on the work they do, even offering job opportunities to those who are seen fit to do the work. Steve Schaffer, writing on ... ; especially if those thinking minds were forced to perform duties humans do not want to do themselves. To someone critical of Artificial Intelligence, an example of this scenario could be something like taking a child from birth and forcing the child to do whatever ... ...

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... is much more up-to-date than Newspapers. Another good point about the Internet is that it provides e-mail. Electronic mail sends an instant message to someone's inbox at the touch of a button. This has its advantages over postal mail in that it is practically free; no stamp is required. Also attachments ... course, impossible to block every site. The Internet is full of viruses and hackers. Hackers can send viruses to your PC and, unless you have a virus checker, you cannot correct the damage it does. Hackers can also access things like e-mail accounts or credit card details. The ethics...

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... versions of Windows. Not much happened in 1987 besides Windows releasing a new version and the first fax card being released. For the first time a PC was infected with an internet virus that took its toll on around 6000 computers. DOS was also becoming very popular as it was now used by 30 million people. Over the next few years nothing really ... know ways to hack into that operating system. Since not many people have a MAC it is considered nearly impossible to hack into a MAC. It is also extremely hard to find someone who is licensed to repair MAC's. Not only because it is not a very ...

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