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This article presents the study of technology used to commit account hijacking and the methods available to prevent it. It gives a clean example of a phishing as a fraud email from Citibank. "The fifth method of acquiring the information necessary to hijack accounts is by inserting malicious software (such as a keystroke logger26), often referred to as "spyware," on a consumer's personal computer at home or on a computer used by many consumers in a public facility like an Internet café"

Description of Identity theft, and that it is indeed a crime. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. In the US and Canada many poeple have reported that unauthorized persons have taken frauds out of their bank or finacial accounts, or the worst care, taken over their identity all together (another person who is using someone else's name/credit card).

This article refers to the "creepiness" of Street View and its impact in different countries.

SCORM is a collection of specifications and standards used as a "reference model" of interrelated technical specifications for Web-based learning content and systems.

Web Sickness November 13, 2009 Cyberchondria refers to the practice of using Internet search engines to wrongly diagnose oneself with serious illnesses. Carolyn Butler, columnist for The Washington Post, talks about how cyberchondria came to be and she discusses her own bout with the dread disease.