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Maliha Rahman

Sexting Growing Trend Among Teens (Get Legal public) Portfolio 1 - 0 views

  • ''Sexting'' has lawyers grappling for a new definition of what constitutes a predatory sex offender. In general, the law says any nude or semi-nude photo of someone under the age of 18 constitutes child pornography.
  • A 2008 survey by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy found that 39 percent of teens have sent or posted sexually suggestive messages and 48 percent say they have received such messages. Many parents worry the images could find their way onto the Internet, or even worse, into the possession of actual sexual predators.
  • Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus also experienced the pitfalls of ''sexting'' when someone hacked into her phone and leaked racy images of her—meant only for her boyfriend—online.
Chalana Perera

Experts work to untangle cyber attacks (MSNBC) - 0 views

  • zombie’ computers
  • hackers may have simply used zombie computers
  • digital battlefield
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  • 100,000 zombie computers linked together in a network known as a "botnet."
  • basic hack job
  • blizzard of digital requests
  • federal government is still very vulnerable in terms of its cyber security and that agencies have miles to go to plug the holes.
  • intrusion problem."
  • fast-spreading e-mail worm from 2004 called "MyDoom
  • malware also appears to contain a destructive Trojan designed
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    This article discusses the US ad South Korean research into suspected cyber attacks from North Korea on private and govt websites in the two countries. It discusses the programs used, the impacts and effects and how the attack takes place from one computer, creates a network through botnets and installs malware into thousands of computers which then send repeated requests, simultaneously to the same website, attacking it.
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