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Android Malware and Botnets Malware in differing forms has been present since computers were first invented. One of the most interesting kinds of malware is that which takes control of a computer and reports back to the malicious actor that infected the computer. The malware allows an attacker to use the infected computer, effectively making the computer a bot. Normally, these bots are part of a network of infected computers known as a botnet. The attacker in control of a botnet can use it for a variety of purposes. One of the most common uses for a botnet is to perform distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), where the bots send massive amounts of web traffic to a single website and attempt to bring it down. Botnets can also be used to…

The internet has provided people around the world to connection with others with similar interest to interact with one another. However, there are some who would rather cause a distraction rather than contributing to the general discussion. In order to control the harassment done by these internet “trolls,” online users have been employing the use of bot software to monitor discussions any censor any undesirable content. In the article “Fighting Online Trolls with Bots,” the author dives into…

The recent airing of Ashley Madison's dirty laundry continues to be a hot topic around the internet. Two weeks ago, a group of hackers calling themselves 'Team Impact', breached the security of the controversial dating website and made away with the information of millions of users. Many outlets have combed through the near 10 gigabytes of data dumped by Team Impact onto the dark web, but this find from Gizmodo stands out. The data they dug up reveals that: for a website that marketed itself…

Cyberbullting Summative In my opinion the idea of bots fighting cyber bullying is very awesome and also makes me very thoughtful, while having some sort of hope towards the future. This is because the article explains how there is a possibility in the future that they may be tools or “bots” that could help us prevent cyber bullying, which tech companies are now experimenting these new tools. This could help many people and including me becuase it can prevent and may deacrease cyberbullying…

The U.S. history has been impacted by many different ways, it could be a person or something that innovation by people. In this research paper, we are going to analyze three innovations that impacted the U.S. history, which is electric light, airplane, and internet. The electric light is a device which produce the visible light by the flow of electric current. The airplane is a flying vehicle let people were able to move faster. The Internet is a huge network tandem by network and network. These…

Introduction Nowadays, Internet becomes the most important thing in our life. Using mobile phone, computer, even game consoles, we need the Internet to connect with people to communicate all around the world while many unlimited information are shared in the Internet. Internet censorship is an important topic for users, which means the information and ideas are controlled within the society. Therefore, some of them are censored and not all can easily accessible online. The organization, even the…

The Council on Foreign Relations also recommends creating a database to allow users to see the companies and individuals that make political ads as well as the target audience of these paid ads. For social media companies, the council suggests the following: better regulation of false information and news, better management and disablement of bots, and more transparent ad usage. Already, Facebook, Twitter, and Google have taken positive actions such as banning RT and Sputnik, two Russian…

Almost 42% of the world’s population has access to the internet. Also, more than 3 billion people around the world now use the internet via a variety of different devices. In addition, the average internet user spends around 4 hours and 25 minutes using the internet each day. Therefore, the most of Business owners focus on their websites to attract more customers and visitors. Thus, the web analysts start to collect and analyze web data in order to understand web traffic and usage to improve…

1. Policies: Policies like Acceptable Use, Internet Access, and Email and Communications Policies can take the risk out of the user’s hands of doing what is right. Sites that could hold malicious codes and viruses can simply be blocked from access so that it isn’t even in their “hands” to make the decision. 2. Provision Servers: Using software like IPAM, making sure that your servers all have static addresses assigned to them. This also helps to detect strange traffic running across the…

Since the release of the public World Wide Web in 1993 the internet, as well as the programs shared and created on it, has developed into a significant part of our lives. We use it to communicate over long distances, locate businesses, find job offerings, directions, inspiration, share our thoughts and opinions with others, and even as an escape from. Whether we’re aware of it or not, we’ve become co-dependent on so many of the applications of the web. But could you imagine if all the websites…