Sunday, July 4, 2010
PRIVACY POLICY IN FACEBOOK
By:Abbas Saghali
Facebook updated its privacy policy in April 22,2010.Last revision has eight sections including introduction, information facebook receives,information members share with third parties,sharing information on facebook,how members use their information,how facebook share information,how members can view,change or remove information,and how this popular social network protect information.
Facebook has announced if anybody has question about their privacy policy can contact with their team through their help page .This page also has been provided for somebody who has complaints about their privacy issues.They have provide the other page by the name of TRUSTe for those members which are not satisfied with their team's responses.
There are some links such as :
statement of rights and responsibilities
facebook site Govenance
privacy settings
requesting deletion for non-user
reporting and blocking third party applications
which are completely helpful in this regard.
Friday, July 2, 2010
WORLDWIDE COMPUTER CRIME
By:Abbas Saghali
According one official report in USA which was published in 2008,among 300 million internet users in all of the globe more than one million were involved with computer crime.These crimes included fraud,vandalism,disposal of stolen goods,and embezzlement.It should be interesting to know that distributed denial of service is the most reported computer crime in the world.As well as digital world has a great deal of global advantages,crimes by internet also cannot be limited geographically.Financial networks are mostly target by internet criminals and control of online fraud sometimes is extremely difficult.Online child pornography is another e-crime that FBI launched its "innocent images" prob to track it down in 1995.This effort by more than 200 convictions resulted in 1999.
According one official report in USA which was published in 2008,among 300 million internet users in all of the globe more than one million were involved with computer crime.These crimes included fraud,vandalism,disposal of stolen goods,and embezzlement.It should be interesting to know that distributed denial of service is the most reported computer crime in the world.As well as digital world has a great deal of global advantages,crimes by internet also cannot be limited geographically.Financial networks are mostly target by internet criminals and control of online fraud sometimes is extremely difficult.Online child pornography is another e-crime that FBI launched its "innocent images" prob to track it down in 1995.This effort by more than 200 convictions resulted in 1999.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
TRADEMARK CONFLICT WITH DOMAIN NAME
BY:Abbas Saghali
We can define a trademark as a name,symbol,motto and design which legally introduces a company and is representative for its products and services.But from the first days that domain name was improved in cyber space,stakeholders of companies had a conflict with it.The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that a firm in business must use its domain name to sell products and its services.this is accomplished in order to have a protection on the name.In other words ,just reserving a domain name cannot be sufficient for a company and they should use their trademark in terms of domain name.
Fortunately, it's easy to register your domain name as a trademark:
Conduct a trademark search helps to find any trademarks that conflict with those type of names that you want to use as domain name.At this point,the notorious conflict between trademark and domain name users can be decreased.Although regarding of using famouse trademarks for some individuals and groups, Conduct a trademark search is not full stop for the conflict. ALL BUSINESS
Friday, June 25, 2010
A KINDE OF SPOOFING PROBLEM

A new attack is threatening to increase the potential for attackers to compromise enterprise servers and the critical data on them. Solutions are available, and they will require action by company officers .
“SSLStrip” and related attacks1 were among the highlights of the July 2009 Black Hat show in Las Vegas. Researcher Moxie Marlinspike3 combined a number of separate problems, not all related to SSL, to create a convincing scenario in which users attempting to work with secure web sites were instead sent to malicious fake sites. One of the core problems described by Marlinspike is the ability to embed null characters in the common name field of a certificate, designating a domain name. This can be used to trick software, web browsers.SSLStrip attack could be used against server-server communications with the potential for mass-compromise of confidential data.
This spoofing problem is solved by correct use of Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates for authentication. Moving certificate-based enterprise authentication to EV SSL would therefore protect an organization against this form of attack.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
KNOWLEDGE OF TRADEMARK
If you are a writer, publisher, web site designer, site owner and if you own, claim to own, use or want to use intellectual property on the Internet, then you must have at least a short but functional knowledge of how the United States trademark, copyright and other laws, as well as various state laws, may apply to you. There is an intimate relationship among your rights and the rights of others. At any moment, you may be both a user of other’s protected materials and a creator of your own. Both they and you deserve to have your intellectual property rights protected.
In addition to the more traditional logos and designs that are the subject of trademark law, domain names are now also subject to being trademarked if they otherwise qualify as marks. Indeed, the rules for what may and may not qualify for trademark status are not all that different except that the Internet presents additional issues.
In addition to the more traditional logos and designs that are the subject of trademark law, domain names are now also subject to being trademarked if they otherwise qualify as marks. Indeed, the rules for what may and may not qualify for trademark status are not all that different except that the Internet presents additional issues.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
SPOOFING DIMENSIONS
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.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
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