Poll 9 Result

The title of Week 9 poll is "What is your reaction when you received irretated hyperlinked which contains virus for the first time?", the result of the poll shows that the majority respondent which is 2 respondents (66.6%) choose "you open it because you think something is related to you." Only 1 respondent (33.3%) just ignored it without any reason. Whereby none of the respondent (0%) don't know what it is so they open it and none of the respondent choose they know that might be a virus they ignored to open it.
From the result we can know most of us are the victims always get this kind of irretated hyperlinked that contains virus when they first time click on it they didn't alert of the virus inside and harm their pc because they think something is important and didn't ignored it. The awareness of people of beware this kind of hyperlinked was low but as this kind of situation happen and happen around us, some of the respondent choose to ignored it without any reason because they know it's a virus after the experiences. I hope there will be a solution to solve this problem and I really hope some organization should take action of this kind of behaviour that harm people's computer software or maybe some people just trying to do some hacking. It's so irritating as people need to reinstall their software once they get viruses and sometimes the important documents will lost caused by the virus. It's a issue that getting serious, people remember try to avoid to click on it to protect your pc.

The Ethnical issue of Online Dating is cheating

While the online dating websites do allow us to find a relationship very efficiently, like anywhere else, there are people who will try to misuse the system. Men can go pretty wild when they know that they are anonymous. I had seen my cousin brother he was just in age of 11 years old he often play online games where create a female account to get people get in trap. What he did was people thought he was a young lady then my cousin brother keep asking for advantage where asking them give "her" a good weapon and give "her" some points so "she" able to upgrade her level faster. He use this way to cheating people stuff which is related to ethical issue merely because they even knew they had not meet each other they might know is a risk to a trap but they are willing to give. However when he getting too over of it, once a guy want to date "her" for movie, ofcourse my cousin avoid to go. Even smarter he asked his sister to act as "her" so those guy would easily to believes the present of "her" is real.

It is an ethical issue to get advantage of people it is really immorality do cheat people in this way. In the reality of social networking such as FaceBook and Friendster, MSN Messenger and so on when come to a lonely person you might tend to act like a silly person just simply find a partner chit chat and this is how you "fall in love" with the person while you never get to see each other before. In a reality word to describe you are "falling in love" with the chatting process while get you out of loneliness. A relationship that never meet each other but maybe in the webcam but this are not a real relationship should be. Indeed, none of the people would want to marry a person that just through internet tool chatting. This is a fake relationship just to satisfy each of party's needs in a temporary period. However some of the innocent victims never realize they get in the trap when they are "fall in love deeply" because love is blind! Not only men will cheat but girls will cheat as well. How do men cheat? Some of the wild men they ask for sexual show in front of the webcam. They persuade the girls to take off shirt or perform sexy posting just to satisfy their needs. How about the girls cheat the guys? In my opinion I think most of the girls expert in cheating money. Maybe the scenario will be this way, for example the guy persuade the girl to take off the shirt the girl will request for take off one piece of clothes pay $XXX as a money transaction banking into her account. How can you imagine you just sex in front of the webcam doing alone? This is a serious issue thats often happened in our society for this recent years. Its is so disgusting but it is so hard to avoid or stop this unhealthy activities to happen continously.

Internet crimes in Los Angeles and punishments

The term "internet crime" is a sort of catchall phrase that can represent so many crimes. In its most basic meaning, a Los Angeles internet crimes are any crime committed while using the Internet. Some of the most frequently seen internet crimes in Los Angeles include phishing, credit card fraud, illegal downloading, child pornography, illegal pornography, and illegal distribution of viruses or spam. Phishing, for those who may not know, is a type of fraud where an individual or group poses as an otherwise trustworthy entity such as a bank and asks for personal information such as bank account numbers, credit card numbers, social security information or account passwords.
With such information, they can then access a person’s bank accounts or credit cards, or proceed to commit identity theft. Phishing scams are so common that I myself was approached twice in the last month with e-mails claiming to be from banks that Credit card fraud is nearly interchangeable with online auction fraud. In these cases, the victim tries to purchase something online with their credit or debit card that is never delivered to them. Bank and credit card account numbers are often the information that is being sought after.

Punishment for Internet crimes varies widely depending on the facts of each case. Depending on the scale of the damage done, imprisonment, large monetary fines & restitution, community service, probation or parole may be handed down by a judge as punishment. As in most cases, a first-time offender will likely be given a less severe punishment while the opposite is true for repeat offenders. One important note here is that if the defendant committed a sex crime while using the Internet that involved a minor, he or she may be subjected to greater charges with correspondingly greater punishments.

Los Angeles criminal law blog
http://keglawyers.com/blog/?cat=18

The punishment of internet crimes in Los Angeles is really good and give alert to the people who wants to commit a crimes through internet. For my opinion, I wish the Malaysia could practise like what Los Angeles government do to protect the users of the internet. At the mean time, the users of the internet must also have self-knowledge to overcome and smart while online to avoid to fall into the trap of the profiteers and the bad people in the internet world.

Poll 8 Result

The title of Week 8 poll is "Have you ever receive the porn testimonial in your Friendster?", the result of the poll shows that the majority respondent which is 4 respondents (80%) did received the porn testimonial and they just ignore it. Only 1 respondent (20%) had never noticed any porn testimony in the Friendster. Whereby none of the respondent (0%) accept the testimony.

From the result we can know most of us are the victims always get this kind of testimony but is so hard to ignore it because the same thing will continous happened. Not sure what is the purpose they people send to us maybe it contain virus thats why people are afraid accept any kind of application or files. People are more security now thats is why whatever any strange information they will just ignore it. Some of the picture are so scandalous and you will get tired to delete as well because even after you will delete you will get the same thing very soon. Is there any solution to ignore this to happen? Is this one of the reason people change their mindset to use Facebook instead of Friendster?

Man-In-The-Middle-Attack

The topic that Im going to discuss is Man in the middle attack. The man-in-the middle attack intercepts a communication between two systems. For example, in an http transaction the target is the TCP connection between client and server. Using different techniques, the attacker splits the original TCP connection into 2 new connections, one between the client and the attacker and the other between the attacker and the server, as shown in figure 1. Once the TCP connection is intercepted, the attacker acts as a proxy, being able to read, insert and modify the data in the intercepted communication.

In a simple explanation, man in the middle is one kind of the computer crime that duplicate the information that the user sent over. It's basically means the private and confidential info are passing around through the net. Let's have a simple example, Alice and Jason is using webcam through MSN, the attacker would intercept the video call and get to see what the user are seeing. It might be use for illegal purposes.

So far me and the friends around me are never involved in this kind of computer crimes therefore I have no experience to share with you guys. Anyway, I knew some solution to avoid this man in the middle attack crimes. By using Encryption, which is you type the "unknown words" then your friend would read it through some softwares while the attackers can't get your information so that they couldn't attack your pc and your confidential information as well.

Let's show you guy a picture to understand better.

Hope it works and makes you understands more about Man in the middle attack computer crimes. =)

Man-in-the-middle attack
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Man-in-the-middle_attack

Irritated Hyperlinked in MSN Messenger

Has been so annoyed by the hyperlinked that sent by many friends in MSN Messenger for the past few months but recently this cases happened getting more serious. Last few days I just on my MSN chatroom suddenly many windows pop up, I thought was my friend nudge me so fast because I just online. But realized those are not message by friend but the hyperlinked which contain your email address and your name. Is a virus to attacked your MSN get lagging to run your program and keep sending the same message to all your friend who in your friend list. Actually those messaged we received, the sender are not sending in purpose but they are also one of the victims because the virus will auto spread. I was experienced once and it goes like this "I find interested picture of Yvonnegirl063@hotmail.com click on http://party-Yvonnegirl063.com" I was get shocked and curious what it is about then I go to click the hyperlinked after that my MSN get lagging and then keep sending the same content to my friends. Eventhough I try to logout from MSN and then login again but the incident was remaining to spread the virus to others users. I had no choice and uninstall MSN Messenger, after that I restore MSN Messenger again then everything was fine already.
After this incident I will totally ignore all this kind of hyperlinked and will give advice to my friends do not click on the hyperlink.

I was really piss off after the get those message from anyone. I just quite pity some of my friends get this virus. Hope they know the solution to solve this problem and I really hope MSN Authorizer should take action of this kind of behaviour that harm people's computer software or maybe some people just trying to do some hacking. I think most of the time people get this same experienced in MSN as well, If you have this experienced please share some here and give some opinion to let us prevent this.

Poll 7 results

The week 7th poll topic is "Have you noticed the spam mail or junk mail in your mailbox?" the results of the respondents has shows that most of them have ever received the junk mail in their mailbox. There are 10 of the respondents which is 90% of the result they had received it and they ignored it. whereas others answer, "No, didn't notice" of the poll was 10% which is only one respondent select this answer.From the chart result is obviously most of our respondents are receiving the junk mails and they normally ignored to open it. This is not a good sign because the Spam systems which is sending those commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services is getting serious as spreading around the mail system. I advised the respondents be careful when selecting the email and if possible try to avoid to open up the junk mail and delete it. This is because some of the junk mails may be chargeable. I hope the mail system could stricten and filter the mails to ensure the peoples doesn't receive the unwanted mails.