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(J) What Is a Cyberattack? (WiseGeek) - 1 views
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main goal is usually to gather information that ranges from tracking the general movements and searches conducted by authorized users to copying and forwarding key documents or information that is saved on the hard drive or serve
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This article goes in depth about the technology, hardware and software of cyber-attacks and discusses what is technically qualified as a cyber-attack and what isn't. It also discusses the different impacts that different attacks have and the different methods of attacking.
Use your old phone with new applications - 1 views
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Pirates look forward to business - 0 views
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UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact).
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"They have advertising on their sites and, as those sites attract more eyeballs, they are getting more advertising income.
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Isohunt, Mininova and The Pirate Bay.
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For the Issue analysis
Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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social& ethical issue -people and machines ITsystems in a social context -Applications -Integrated Systems Areas of impact -Business & employment -Scoence & the enviornment
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US Gov. 2.3 gegapixel camera - 0 views
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it also means that people can be illuminated without being aware of it.
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What about privacy, of people who are not criminals?
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The ability to provide real-time surveillance of large areas may be getting closer, as the Army launches a quest for a 2.3 gigapixel camera that could be packaged aboard a drone or a manned aircraft.
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Social > Privacy
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In terms of specifics, the Army is looking for 2.3 gigapixels running at two frames per second. By my reckoning, this suggests continuous coverage of area of around sixty-two square miles at 0.3m resolution with a single sensor
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It systesms > harware & software
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Web run out of Numbers - 0 views
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broadband
Hidden Pay Pal Charges - 1 views
Spacecraft Plan to Tackle Asteroids - 0 views
Designing First Robot Using Slime Mould - 0 views
Gangs are stealing taxpayers' passwords and submitting claims for false tax returns them. - 0 views
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Gangs are stealing taxpayers' passwords and submitting claims for tax refunds to be paid to them, HM Revenue and Customs has warned.
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Impact: Politics- Stealing against the law
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details via the internet.
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Comm Sys: Via Internet
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They then used these details to make fraudulent repayment claims, requesting funds be sent to other bank accounts.
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Security. Authenticity.
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Spider-Man, X-Men comics coming to PSP - Games - msnbc.com - 0 views
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NEW YORK - Sony is adding a digital reader service that will allow owners of its handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Portable, to download comics.
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social & ethical issues---intellectual property
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IT systems in a social context----software & application
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Users will be able to read classic and new comics page by page or frame by frame. Sony says PSP owners will be able to access a range of media through the digital reader service, but it gave no further details.
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areas of impact---art entertainment & leisure
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New Nanolaser Key To Future Optical Computers And Technologies - 0 views
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tiniest laser
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Areas of Impact Art
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Nanophotonics may usher in a host of radical advances, including powerful "hyperlenses" resulting in sensors and microscopes 10 times more powerful than today's and able to see objects as small as DNA; computers and consumer electronics that use light instead of electronic signals to process information; and more efficient solar collectors.
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Social Globalization
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new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry,
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IT systems Integrated systems
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South Korea halts rocket launch - 0 views
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Officials said an automatic abort system was triggered during the countdown when weak pressure was detected in a fuel tank.
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Social > Relaiability
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"The automatic launch sequence automatically turned off due to a problem that was detected in the countdown," said Lee Sang-mok, the deputy minister of science and technology policy.
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IT systems > Hardware
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The rocket, intended to place a satellite into orbit, has been developed with the help of Russia
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Impact > Bussiness, Science.
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Music Copyrighting - 0 views
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the Business Software Alliance is a "far less unpopular organization" than the RIAA. I think the answers are quite illuminating. First, BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public, through any channel that wants to sell them. Second, BSA's members are consumer-oriented; they try to develop products that respond to consumers' needs, and not, the reverse: focusing on what they want to sell to consumers.
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It is true that there have in the past been complaints about the music industry from the public and retailers -- retailers, almost all of whom have been driven out of business. These complaints are though about poor business practices, not business practices. The complaints aren't that the record industry is a business, but that it has been poorly run as a business.
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The CD is not a fair fight with the download.
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Castle 'rebuilt' in virtual world-TOURS OFFERED! - 0 views
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The 1740 virtual castle was cloned and then torn down to leave it looking like today's ruin.
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Second Life is the best-known virtual world on the internet.
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People are shown as digital versions of themselves, known as avatars, who can build homes and businesses, buy and sell land and have relationships.
Israeli website was hacked and pictures of wounded Palestinians - 0 views
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Attackers on the official Kadima website posted images of wounded Palestinians and the aftermath of suicide bombings in Israel.
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Internet system because it involves hacking into a website
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According to AP news agency, the hacked web page was signed Gaza Hacker Team.
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Secutiry and privacy, this shows that those things were violated.
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Kadima, a centrist political party that favours a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, is the largest party in the Israeli parliament. It was unable to form a government, and is currently in opposition.
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Shows policital issues between the two states and how they have technology helps create more effects.
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tough cure for China web addicts - 0 views
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The mostly male youngsters at this centre all have the same problem - they are addicted to the internet.
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elling, this is where they hope to be cured.
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And through a tough programme of physical exercise, medication and couns elling, this is where they hope to be cured. There has been a lot of interest in these boot camps over recent weeks after two teenagers were beaten up at two separate camps in China. One died, the other was seriously injured.
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YouTube Shares Video Profits with Individual Users - 0 views
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The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals
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Such videos are typically by individual users; the more entertaining among them get posted in many other places and as a result get a rapidly growing number of views.
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For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income.
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