Criteria E

Geer, David. Security Technologies: Go Phishing. Technologuy News. June 2005. 20th Nov. 2008 .

Herley, Cormac, and Dinei Flor ˆencio. A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the. Research.microsoft.com. Oct. 2006. Microsoft. 25 Oct. 2008 .

Ramzan, Zulfikar, and Candid W¨uest. Phishing Attacks: Analyzing Trends in 2006. Ceas. Summer 2006. 13 Oct. 2008 .

Tsow, Alex, and Markus Jakobsson. Deceit and Deception: A Large User Study of Phishing. Deceit and Deception: A Large User Study of Phishing. 25 Jan. 2005. 6th Nov. 2008 .

Criteria D

Criterion D- A solution to the problem

There are many feasible solutions for the case of fraudulent attacks or phishing. The easiest way to reduce the number of phishing attacks on people and companies would be to have a Program like Norton Anti-virus or kapersky to check websites and their reliability before going into any of them.

Anti virus programs like kapersky which are also excellent at detecting dangerous sites and possible phishing attacks work by scanning a website, like a document and using other templates of fake websites, know which website is fraudulent and which is not. They can also scan document and emails by the same way. This way before anyone downloads a document, they could have it scanned to know if it contains a virus that could extract their personal information from the computer and send it to a scammer.

The advantages of this solution over others are that, the cost of acquiring it isn’t much. They can also detect and eliminate over 95% of all virus and phishing threats. They have one inconvenient disadvantage though and this is the tendency for them to update every month or even less and this tends to take hours to complete. The computer may sometimes be useless while the files are being updated.

Criteria C

I apoligize for posting this section late, but i had a problem with the internet therefore was not able to do it at home.



Phishing is an e-mail fraud scam conducted for the purposes of information or identity theft. Credit card companies like Visa and also banks like the Bank of America would be interested in phishing and how it could be stopped or minimized because phishing could ruin their company. Phishing could have a lot of impacts on people’s life. It could leave them broke, with no money. Some people might even fall sick as a result of being scammed because their only savings might have being scammed from them. Phishing could also have a reasonable impact on people’s ethics like their responsibility, accountability for instance. Phishing victims might not be trusted by their employer or even their friends. Their respectability and dignity might also be affected. People won’t trust them because they would think that they are thieves. According to a research by David Geer called “security Technologies, Go phishing, “For the 12 months ending April 2004, said analyst Avivah Litan with Gartner Inc., a market research firm, “there were 1.8 million phishing attack victims, and the fraud incurred by phishing victims totaled $1.2 billion.”. We can see that there are a lot of phishing scams per year and the cost incurred are a lot. Geer explains the steps being taken to reduce phishing and also the impact of phishing on individuals as I’ve stated. Phishing scammers are now moving from people to companies. Although phishers have only hit a small percentage of financial institutions (150 of 9,000 in the US in 2004) but the number keeps rising every year. Phishers are attacking industries like such as e-commerce,

Link to article:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1439447&isnumber=31000

Criteria B

The IT system of my article is basically the creation of web pages. Web Pages are made through HTML coding. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. A web page is made up of many HTML coding. The HTML file is a text file that has small Markup tags that tell the web browser how to display the page (w3schools, 2008). My IT system works by first of all a person making a web page, then he puts it up on the server, therefore whenever anyone gets on to the internet, goes to a browser and finds the fake website he/she might think it is real. The components are webpage program, uploaded server, interconnected server, and browser software. The instructions and rules of how the information travels into the internet is HTTP. This is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol .

Criteria A

My article is called Bank turmoil fuels phishing boom. My article is about phishing. Phishing is a form of fraud, it is when someone steals the financial and health identities of a certain person to gain the same advantages and privileges. My article is linked with business because it talks about how banks are at risk and it links with the web because phishing usually happens on the internet. The issue in my article is phishing which at the moment does not have a solution. My IT system is the internet.

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