Ethics Tutorial Assignment#2 Ins.Arwa Al-Issa Footer Text 11/16/2018
Question 1 What is spam? What does a spam filter do? Spam is unsolicited, bulk email. A spam filter attempts to keep spam from reaching someone’s mailbox by identifying and discarding (or routing to a special folder) emails that appear to be spam. Footer Text 11/16/2018
Question 2 What characteristics of the Internet make censorship difficult? Censorship is difficult on the Internet because: (a) The Internet supports many-to-many communication. The Internet has far more information outlets than television or radio. (b) The Internet is dynamic. Millions of computers are being added to the Internet every year. Footer Text 11/16/2018
Question 2 (c) The Web is huge, containing billions of pages. Nobody can keep track of everything published on the Web. (d) The Internet is global. Laws passed in one nation may have no effect outside that nation’s borders. (e) It is hard to distinguish between children and adults on the Internet. Footer Text 11/16/2018
Phishing Phishing is a type of online fraud that tries to trick you into revealing personal financial information, passwords, credit card numbers, etc. In most cases, phishing takes the form of an e-mail message claiming to come from a bank, credit card Company, online retailer or some other legitimate source. Footer Text 11/16/2018
Question 3 Phishing is kind of identity theft define it? Search the Internet to find an example; you may have a real example show it to us? Use of email to attempt to deceive people into revealing personal information. Footer Text 11/16/2018
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Phishing Phished email: Don’t specify your name Have a spelling or grammar mistake Usually contains a link that directs you to another website. 1- They do not say my name. It is addressed to Dear Commonwealth Bank client. If this was truly from the Commonwealth Bank it would say Dear Heather. 2- The grammar and typos. If you look closely there are a couple of errors that you would not expect to find in an email from such a respected organization. They rely on the fact that most of us don’t read these emails in depth but rather skim over and don’t notice these errors. 3- You should always check the link that the email is sending you to. You can do this by hovering your mouse over the link without clicking on it. The image below shows the link for the email that I received. Although it has www.commonwealth.com.au in the link it is the first part of the link that is important. So the website we are being directed to is www.fmslnj.com which is definitely not the Commonwealth Bank. Footer Text 11/16/2018
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Thanks Arwa Al-Issa 11/16/2018