applicants of some of the nation’s most prestigious MBA programs‚ who thought they had a chance to find out sooner what admission decisions the business schools made in their case. On Businessweek Online message board they saw instructions left by an anonymous hacker on how to get into schools databases and find out the decisions made. It was not hard – all schools used the same application software from Apply Yourself‚ Inc.‚ and the instructions posted were very clear and simple. During nine hours that
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"De-anonymizing the Internet Using Unreliable IDs - Microsoft Research." Microsoft Research - Turning Ideas into Reality. 2011. Web. 20 Nov. 2011. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=80964 Landers‚ Chris (April 2‚ 2008). "Serious Business: Anonymous". Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved July 3‚ 2008.
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you thought that Google could access everything. Sadly‚ they don’t. 1. The Deep Web is basically a parallel web with a lot more information and invaluable resources for companies‚ governments‚ private users and hackers. 2. The term Deep Web is usually associated with anonymous criminal activity that cannot be caught because it is in an fake world. 3. However the amount of the commerce in the Deep Webs market is much larger than its surface web counterpart and there are no limits on what you
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS ETHICAL AND UNETHICAL HACKING Acknowledgement We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our teacher‚ Professor Supriya Matthew who gave us the golden opportunity to do
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lives. What most people fail to realize is that when you put something on a social media‚ you are allow many others the chance to access your information. Something as simple as putting your full name or where you live could be very useful to a hacker or internet stalker. The misconception that most of us are guilty of is using your social media page as a form of a diary. You write what you did throughout your day‚ where you went‚ who you were with‚ leaving out no details. It may seem fun but it
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and to market themselves inexpensively. * They allow people to reacquaint with old friends or those who live far away. * They allow for grass-roots causes to organize‚ recruit new members and spread their messages. Cons * They give hackers an opportunity to steal and misuse personal information‚ especially if users don’t correctly install privacy filters. And even with those safeguards‚ posted information
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purchase of Abacus two months later‚ DoubleClick began compiling profiles that linked an individual?s actual name and address to Abacus?s complete records of their on-line and off-line purchases. This turned shopping that was once thought to be anonymous‚ into personally identifiable records. The American Management Association conducted a survey of nearly a thousand large companies and found that more than half the large American
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No matter what the issue has been‚ there have always been people who are there to stand up to problems that drown our society. It doesn’t necessarily mean that whoever tried‚ has succeeded in overcoming a problem however‚ there are countless stories of the average citizen fighting for what they believed is the greater good. “Activism has played a major role in ending slavery‚ challenging dictatorships‚ protecting workers from exploitation‚ protecting the environment‚ promoting equality for women
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Abstract WikiLeaks came into existence in 2006‚ yet it sprung into prominence in April‚ 2010. Ever since then‚ WikiLeaks has taken the world by storm. It is being discussed everywhere‚ from Sudan to the White House. In this essay we try and explore the idea of WikiLeaks and how it affects our perception of the society. Through this essay‚ the idea is to explore the phenomenon as it unfolded‚ and ask a few key questions about the world that we live in. The paper will only deal with the concept of
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This may benefit us. As terrorism exists in this world‚ it is important for our safety to monitor their activities online in order for the government to prevent future attacks. It’s not just terrorism; most crimes are done on the web. Hacker groups‚ such as Anonymous‚ live to cause distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on computers and gaming consoles.
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