Unit 3 Privacy In A Digital World Analysis

As mentioned by Kim Zetter (2015), Botnets have been around for more than a decade and have become one of the most popular methods attackers use to hijack machines and make quick money. The security industry estimates that botnets, over time, have resulted in more than $110 billion in losses to victims globally. An estimated 500 million computers fall prey to botnet attackers annually, which comes down to about 18 victims infected per second.

The Internet has proven itself to be helpful, but it can also be a scary place. When the Internet first emerged, it was difficult to gauge its full potential. The Internet was actually created as a “military communications network in the 1960s” (Campbell et al., 2016, p. 41). However, the Internet became a more integral part of society around the 21st century when it transformed into a hub of information and entertainment. The film, The Net, features the early years of the Internet and the dangers that came with it. This film took a radical stance about how the Internet can damage a person’s life. The film remains relevant today since it inspires paranoia regarding the fragile safety

In her call to action, The People’s Platform; Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Astra Taylor addresses underlying social and economic forces of the internet and differential perspectives towards it. Taylor discusses the new internet in which content is king and, people are now the product, this is called Web 2.0. She discusses this topic from a couple viewpoints; those who would believe that the internet is truly the new people’s platform and that it is the golden age of sharing and collaboration, called the Techno-optimists. The counterparts of this interpretation of the internet are what she calls the Techno-Skeptics, who have a similar mindset in that of Nicholas Carr, an author about technology in the modern age, with the

It’s a bright Sunday morning; the birds are chirping, the smell of fresh coffee is in the air and you turn on the tv; “Another Leak Of All Verizon Users Personal Information Out On The Web” is today's headline on the news. In our society right now; the government has the utmost power; yet they might not be using their powers in ways you’d expect. If you're a daily electronic users at Urbandale High School who spends at least 30 hours a week using online functions for entertainment or work; then you might not have heard or seen what the government's been doing recently. In an in depth analysis shows that our life we’re living right now could be seen as a dystopian universe over 50 years ago. Yet as our nation advances, its being advanced in

“Modern economies are highly dependent on information systems and networks connected to “cyberspace” a virtual world with a population of several billion and growing.”

In the end, while Lyon and Hafner give us an entertaining story regarding how the Internet was discovered, we are still left wondering about what effect the Internet is actually having. True, we see all of the hard work that occurred behind the scenes in the making of the Internet in this book, but now the question must be asked: where does the Internet take us? This is a very important question in the context of where technology takes our culture, and takes humanity in general. Indeed, every piece of technology has an effect on the people within the culture. There is, after all, certain political and social consequences to the progress in technology. In his essay "Do

INTRO The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace by Alexander Klimburg is a novel that is written around the importance as well as the relevance of the internet in today’s society regarding state safety. The claim Klimburg makes throughout the novel is that no invention at all has changed the way we live, as much as it has been changed by the creation of the Internet. Many would consider the Internet to be the greatest invention to happen to mankind, considering how easily accessible it is and how much information it holds. However, Klimburg’s novel explores the idea of cyberspace in regard to politics.

In today’s world of ever-evolving computer technology there is a growing concern for online privacy. As suggested by Jason Noble, author of “US debates security vs. privacy 12 years after 9/11: The search continues for the right balance between counterterrorism efforts and individual privacy,” the concern of privacy online has evolved since the September 11th terrorist attacks, even though citizens are/were willing to give up civil liberties for a sense of national security. As the digital-age advanced into citizen’s everyday lives, their right to privacy was diminishing. As suggested by Sherry Turkle in, “How Computers Change the Way We Think,” younger generations are introduced to computer technology at a much younger age than ever before.

We are now just beginning to understand the true gravity that the Internet will have on our nation especially, in light of the apparent escalation in terrorist acts. The interconnectivity of globalism and the advent of the Internet, it’s social media sites, and the Darknet in the future have created seamless and indivisible webs of interconnected networks that have effectively erased the physical bounds of state borders and the temporal aspects of

In chapters 5 and 6; Spinello (2011) found that privacy is becoming a major challenge for all different segments of society. This is occurring in a number of different areas including: consumer spending / buying patterns, inside the home / workplace and the way this technology is applied. Moreover, there is a discussion about the various vulnerabilities of the Internet and how issues such cybercrime / spying have resulted directly from these increases. (Spinello, 2011)

Imagine a country where its government can see all and know all about you, your family, and your friends. Nothing is safe. Nothing is private. Nothing is truly yours. This idea is often explored in the utopia and science fiction genres of books, movies, and even video games. In 1984, a book by George Orwell, citizens of Airstrip One, which was previously England, are under constant surveillance from their government and leader, Big Brother. Nothing in their country is private, even their thoughts are monitored and regulated by their government. Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, depicts a science fiction future where citizens are under constant surveillance. Not only are they being monitored for crimes, but for the functionality of technology and personal advertisements. Bioshock, a 2009 video game, shows the crumbling utopia, Rapture, where its citizens had to follow the beliefs of its creator, Andrew Ryan. If discovered by Rapture’s many cameras unfollowing citizens could be executed, beaten, or jailed. Even though “Big Brother is watching you” seems like a far fetched plot, its theme and representation strongly persists in our country today. “Information privacy, defined as the ability of the individual to control when, how, and to what extent his or her personal information is communicated to others, is one of the most important and ethical, legal, social, and political issue of the information age” (Hong). Surprisingly, the

Cyber threats to the energy infrastructure are pervasive. Reports have indicated numerous attempts to enter the nation’s information technology architectures are credible. Is has become common today that threats come from many origins. Some threats are traced from intentional or accidental incidents. Likewise, some threats toward the energy infrastructures come from a disgruntled employee or points of origin traced from foreign nations, seeking opportunities to exploit or cripple the nation’s infrastructures. Additionally, there are threats that attempt to manipulate the power grid profit margins, particularity the electricity sector through deceitful practices by employees. “By changing the reading during this period, they were able

It is 2012, and Information Technology (IT) is revolutionising society, culture, communication and general Multimedia (MM) in a new fashion. This new fashion is no longer constricted to one continent; it is global. Nor is it constricted to one construct; technology converges ever more rapidly. According to Moore’s law; the doubling of transistors on integrated circuits (ISSCC, 2003) it expects more powerful information technology, and also expect technologies to continue their concrescence to new more powerful appliances with new features. Since the new technologies/features are on the increase via “accelerating returns” (Kurzweil, 2001), there is a concern within this essay and an ever increasing global population in the context of privacy, laws and ethical considerations.

Security threats have not only grown and matured quickly, but the people behind these threats have become more creative in disguising and hiding their work. These criminals have become more adept at eluding their identification and are now relying on cryptography. Some of the more frequent used threats were listed in the Security Threat Report 2014 such as botnets, android malware, attacks on Linux platforms and Mac OS X, web-based malware, targeted threats to your financial accounts, unpatched windows systems and re-invented spam (Sophos, 2014). These items are dangerous and can destroy companies and their employees. The more complex these threats get, the harder it is to protect or prepare to defend against them. A botnet is a network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owner’s knowledge. Criminals distribute malicious software that can turn your computer into a “bot”. When this occurs, your computer can perform automated tasked over the Internet without your knowledge. This type of malware is typically used to infect large numbers of computers.

A botnet, otherwise known as “zombie army,” is a group of computers that are compromised or controlled often from a single source a human operator known as a “Botmaster,” and run related software programs or scripts [1]. In contrast with the previous malware, botnets have the characteristic of a command and control (C & C) channel, and use existing common protocols, such as IRC and HTTP [1]. Botnets provide a distributed platform for many cyber-crimes such as Distributed Denial of Service attacks against critical targets, malware dissemination, phishing, and click fraud. All these together make botnet detection and mitigation an important and challenging problem in cyber-security.