Saturday, 13 May 2017

Thursday Questions

SECURITY THREATS TO OUR PRIVACY!

5 Security Concerns
1. Manipulating USB cords, the easiest way a hacker can get into your device is through your USB cords in a public charging station, they can go into the device and then steal your information very easily.

2.Fake Hotspots, sometimes a hacker can use a fake wi-fi hotspot to get into your device.

3.Websites taking private Info, some malicious websites ask for information about you, like your name, age, and other private info. What they sometimes do is take the private information and use it to their advantage

4.Doxing, the term "Doxing" refers to an act of a person sending out personal information about a victim and posting it in the internet for all to see. The information usually contains home location, age, name, security number, personal pictures, passwords and many more.

5.Ransomware, Ransomware is when a hacker puts malware into a computer and locking all features until a ransom is paid. This is done by a victim accidentaly clicking on a malicious link.

So, Why does Security matter?

Security matters, because we all need a time to our selves alone. Without security our society would not function, without security we'd all know everything about each other, things that we might not want other people to know.

Wednesday Questions

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rankin-school-students-security-video-camera-russian-website-1.2762291

Russian Website Broadcasts images of school students


How was it done?
Criminals used a panasonic iphone app to control and view images on the camera. The pictures are then broadcasted live to a website.

Why was it wrong?
This is an invasion of privacy for every student, and all the pictures of the students where broadcasted in a website for anyone to see. This is also illegal.

Friday, 12 May 2017

Phishing Questions (Wednesday)

Phishing
1. Things you need to watch out for in a phishing email are

  • giving out your personal info, like passwords, home location, and other info
  • malicious links
  • viruses
  • requests to meet at a location
  • false information
2. 5 ways you can determine if an email is a scam
  1. Check the Email, if the email says they are part of a company, check if the email has the company name.
  2. Grammatical Errors
  3. Unpersonalized, if the email does not say your name directly then it's deffinetly a scam
  4. Fake Details, if the information in the email is a very excessive (ie. WE ARE GIVING AWAY $100,000,000 FOR FREE!)
  5. Threats
     


Thursday, 11 May 2017

Monday Questions

What is Illegal About Free TV Android Box?
To my understanding, Android Box is not illegal because they are not downloading the movies, they are streaming them. Although this is not illegal, I think Android Boxes should be illegal because you buy the product once and you never have to pay any monthly bills ever again, you also don’t have to pay for any movies, this is considered piracy because they do not pay for the movies being shown.

How is Netflix trying to stop online piracy?
Currently, Netflix has a team of people that search the internet and take down sites that stream their exclusive content. They are doing this by making piracy a taboo or an uncool act.

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Robots! Will they take replace us?

Here is a presentation on the topic of Robots taking over jobs, and how the future will look like.


Thursday, 27 April 2017

2 Interesting Articles on "Nominet UK"


Here are two articles about Technological Advancements

Source: Nominet.uk
Autonomous Vehicle:
TVWhitespace in Africa:

Nominet's Autonomous Vehicle project.

Nominet is part of a project where they use cars that do not require the driven to steer the wheel or look at the road and where the car moves by itself. Six automated vehicles will be tested in urban streets in the UK. This project explores the trials of safe and secure use of automated vehicles.Image result for nominet automated vehiclest




Nominet and Microsoft team up to get Africa online with TV white space.

Image result for color staticTV White Space is the unused broadcasting frequencies in the Wireless spectrum. Television networks leaves buffers when switching channels, these are called the whitespace, this white spaces leave room for widespread broadband internet










Nominet and Microsoft have teamed up to deliver broadband internet in Africa. Nominet's geo location database allows wireless devices to recieve TV Whitespace, allowing devices in an area to recieve internet. Microsoft mission was to allow acess to people who did not have it, they want to empower people by giving them acess to technology.
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Wednesday, 29 March 2017

JavaScript Questions

JavaScript Questions

1.Brendan Erich invented  JavaScript in 1995, a company called Netscape hired him to create a programming language.

2. JavaScript has become one of the best programming languages in the world. JavaScript is very versatile and can do a lot for programmers such as getting rid of errors in the code, create scripts, and many other features.

3. It is used in HTML with the tag <script language=”javascript”>

4.Anyone can use JavaScript because it is easy to use, what could have taken a person hours to create an alert message in normal HTML can now create alert message in a few seconds with the JavaScript tag.

5. Here are some websites where you can learn JavaScript

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