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    benefits is the computer. Computers are a very powerful and helpful technology, it has gained a lot of importance and significance all around the world as it improves the efficiency and productivity of work done. But yet this kind of technology can get into a

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    Stuxnet Worm

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    Abstract Discovered in June of 2010, a computer worm called Stuxnet was designed to attack programmable-logic controllers or PLCs that are used to control switches and values in industries that operate a specific type of on Siemens PLC device using Step7 software running on a Windows operating system. The worm was successful because it was able to exploit a of four zero-day flaw of Windows operating system. Stuxnet

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    Lets start off with the basics, and how your computer functions. If your computer is a multi-tasking, gaming computer. Then you will need a few performance enhancers. Enhancers such as programs, hardware, and maintenance. Looking for a new computer that is for gaming? If your wanting to buy a new computer, you will need one that will last 5 years plus. Get one with the following, 2 GB of RAM, 512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX, and dual core processor. These are just the easy basics that you should

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    released an advertisement, called its "Big Ad." Visitors to the website www.bigad.com.au would be presented with a prompt from their browser about a signed Java applet that would then allow the visitor to view a video as it was streamed to their computers. The video was constructed in an "epic" style, meaning it looked very big, very expensive, and so very impressive. As such, after being online for only a day, the advertisement was viewed 162,000 times, and after two weeks the video had been viewed

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    Computer Viruses: Past, Present And Future In our health-conscious society, viruses of any type are an enemy. Computer viruses are especially pernicious. They can and do strike any unprotected computer system, with results that range from merely annoying to the disastrous, time-consuming and expensive loss of software and data. And with corporations increasingly using computers for enterprise-wide, business-critical computing, the costs of virus-induced down-time are growing along with the threat

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    Is The Virus A Virus?

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    What is a virus, by definition it is a “Software that is self-replicating and spreads like a biological virus.” (Easttom, 2013-2014) They’re many forms of virus such as: Spyware which like its name spies on your behavior and sends this data to a remote computer. You also have Adware which like its name as well targets you for ads and different advertisements. You’re more harmful forms of viruses are Trojans which is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software (Kaspersky Lab,

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    hostile computer takeovers, malicious software attacks,

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    Cyber-Terrorism Essay

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    everything from computer viruses to contraband network servers to pirated IP addresses and credit account fraud. All of the stories we hear and those annoying emails that warn of a multitude of viruses can lull us into complacency when none of them come to fruition. In all honesty if you have a top-level virus-scanning program such as Norton, or McAfee your machine will be safe from most of the little viruses that you will come across. There is a propensity to copy

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    the Internet using the computer either as a tool or a targeted victim to commit crimes. Cybercrime is difficult to determine and does not have a clear classification system and uses two dimensions. The computer as a tool and the target consist of the first dimension. The second dimension consists of the crime itself: person, property, and victimless/vice (ebook crime) In the first dimension cybercrime is divided into two categories. The first, being the use of the computer as a tool, making the target

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    Questions On ' Big Ad '

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    a web site, visitors could watch the video as it streamed to their computers, even in full-screen mode. The video was constructed in a unique style; very big, looked very expensive and impressive and Internet patrons received the site’s advertisements impressively fast. The web site can install programs on the client 's computer only because the Java applets used are signed; signed applets are given more access to users ' computers in the belief that people will properly authenticate a signed “applet”

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