Crossover: online pests plaguing the off line world

摘要: During the past 10 years, several technological trends have emerged that significantly and positively affected today's world. Two in particular are noteworthy: apparently unbounded desire to network any all devices deployment of Microsoft's operating systems everything from consumer PCs business servers embedded devices. We could well see telecommunications boom; rise Internet, rush connect it as one humanity's milestones, not far removed from, invention telephone or telegraph. Computer networking, over particularly, has democratized publishing information, made massive amounts information services accessible general public, enabled new models. But a dark side. Along with its benefits, Internet brought about such things cybercrime, computer worms, online fraud, spam, denial-of-service attacks, among other unpleasantness. This down side is considered article.