A KIND OF SPOOFING PROBLEM

Spoofing is a engage in a profession whereby the user on the internet attempts to hide its IP address to conceal its true identity. Many crackers steal databases of credit cards or other sensitive information.

The concept of IP spoofing, was initially discussed in academic circles in the 1980’s.While the popularity of such cracks has decreased due to the coming to the end of the services they exploited, spoofing can still be used and needs to be addressed by all security administrators.

For example Buffalo Spammer is an infamous spammer who was accused of sending more than 800 million unrequested emails from illegal earth link accounts.

He also stole credit cards and identities to fraudulently by 343 earth link accounts to send shady and unsolicited mails to different people. On long investigation the identity of this spammer was found to be that of Mr. Howard Carmack who sent out millions of emails that included advertisements for computer virus scripts, software for bulk mailing and list of addresses to be used by other spammers. He was arrested in New York.

COMPUTER VIRUS

Dr Gasson, A computer specialist at University of Reading tested a new threat for human beings recently. As using the micro-chips in different parts of human bodies to improve their health is becoming worldwide this researcher tried to implant one of these chips to his body to see how much vulnerable could it be in case of malfunction of the chip by a computer virus.

Nowadays using these micro computers in medical science makes the scientist to be worry about the threats that these electronic devices might have for human beings. Dr Gasson attached one of these micro-chips to his hand to make a secure connection with his university building and his mobile phone. As he mentioned when this device implanted in his body it became a part of his body and whatever happened to the function of this device will affect him. The results of his experience as the first human being who has infected by a computer virus were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society in Australia in June 2010.
This scientist threatens us about the dangers we might encounter in the near future because of using such the technologies to enhance ourselves.

BLOGGER WAS BLOCKED IN IRAN

By:Abbas Saghali

Blogger as one of the most popular web sivices in the world was blocked in Iran.Government of Iran  from yesterday morning blocked this web service and iranian bloggers cannot use it to poblish their blogs legally.It should be suggested that Iran has most number of bloggers in the globe of cyber space..Some of internet services such as you tube and face book has had undeniable role to develop Iranian green movement after recent presidential election.Blogfa is another web service that is used by Iranian bloggers.Some internet users believe security of blogfa is not sufficient to keep bloggers profile information secured.

PREVENT OF BANK ACCOUNT HACKINGS

These days the hackers are looking for the ways to earn some money as well as destroying and making problem for the websites. One of these way is to penetrate the users bank account and transfer and steal money from their accounts. As we see nowadays most of us are doing our banking activities via internet so in case we won’t be precautious we may lose all our assets. There are some hints which might help us to prevent our bank accounts and credit card from being hacked. Some of them are as follows:

· Try to use OS like Linux instead of windows as this OS is the most vulnerable one.

· Try to use the most secure web browsers and email services.

· It would be necessary to install a firewall and antivirus program on your system.

· Using Wi-Fi connections just in the secure place like your office and your home.

· Encrypting all your valuable information on your hard drives including your bank account passwords.

· Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook can be another source of being hacked, so try to be very cautious while surfing these websites.

· Last but not least, try to use strong password by combining alphabets and numeric in your password.

As a conclusion the bank all over the world are trying to make their websites as much secure as they can, but still the carefulness of the costumers is required to decrease such the events.

CENSORSHIP IN IRAN

By:Abbas Saghali

There is no doubt that Iran has one of the most extensive technical filtering and internet censorship system in the globe.In this country with a civilized history and more than 70 million population which has a great deal of high graduated individuals in its recent generations,a committee of government officials and a few members of intelligent services and judiciary make decision on blocking and filtering of websites.Telecommunications ministry is operator of filtering in Iran.After recent presidential election,Internet censorship were intensified in Iran.Most of writers,journalists,intellects, university students and lecturers,internet users and opposite politicians have increasingly protested to these kind of "technology-blocking" in Iran,although government tries to ignore these protests.Iranian internet users often get around the filtering by anti-filter software,but it is not always very easy to get access to blocked websites by this means.

DEFAMATION,LIBEL,SLANDER

By:Abbas Saghali

Relatively we can say defamation is the communication of statement that by making a claim gives a negative image about an individual,business,product,group,government or nation.In fact it is a false statement which makes a lot of troubles for others.Defamation sometimes is called slander or libel.

IRAN AND E-COMMERCE SOLUTION

By:Abbas Saghali

Iran can improve in different aspects of e-commerce according

political-legal,economical,social,and         technological(PEST)       solutions.

 Firstly,by regarding political-legal solution,improvement in international policy of Iran is quite considerable to attract international customers and facilitate exchange transactions with individuals,firms and organizations in different countries specially USA and most of other developed countries.Secondly,government of Iran should support industries which are interested in doing their business by e-commerce.Increasing budget for R&D in this regard can be effective.Thirdly,advertising for facilitation of business transactions by e-commerce is too important.Most of people in Iran deosn't have enough information about advantages of e-commerce.Bazar in Iran which is the heart of economy doesn't use multi-dimensional capacity of e-commerce in whole of its facets.Increasing social awareness can be effective in this way.Finally, we should mention to technological facilities for e-commerce in Iran.BY increasing technological devices of e-banking and improvement of IT people of Iran can use mostly from e-commerce advantages.Technological facilities can also cause people trust more to implement their business by e-commerce.