...DCIT 65 - Web Development Botnet Edrilyn R. Fortuno BS IT 3 - 1 February 7, 2013 Botnet A botnet is a collection of computers that connected to the internet that interact to accomplish some distributed task. A bot is a type of malware that enables a network attacker to gain control over a computer and utilize it to launch third party attacks on the Internet. Software agents, or robots, that run autonomously and automatically. A group of computers running a computer application controlled and manipulated only by the owner or the software source. In the past, the concept of bots did not include harmful behavior by default.Bots can be very bene cial programs when they are designed to assist a human user, either by automating a simple task, or by simplifying a user's control over various programs or systems. Botnets are used for malicious activity like distributed denial of service attacks, identity theft, sending spams and phishing attacks. Typically botnets used for illegal purposes. Botnets are seen to be one of the main sources of malicious activity. Rapidly growing botnets and new methods for spreading malicious codes and launching attacks. Bots sneak into a persons computer in many ways. Bots often spread themselves across the Internet by searching for vulnerable, unprotected computers to infect. When they nd an exposed computer, they quickly infect the machine and then report back to their master. Their goal is then to stay hidden until they are instructed to carry...
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...Cloud computing: benefits, risks and recommendations for information security Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing resources, not a new technology. Computing services ranging from data storage and processing to software, such as email handling, are now available instantly, commitment-free and on-demand. Since we are in a time of belt-tightening, this new economic model for computing has found fertile ground and is seeing massive global investment. According to IDC’s analysis, the worldwide forecast for cloud services in 2009 will be in the order of $17.4bn1. The estimation for 2013 amounts to $44.2bn, with the European market ranging from €971m in 2008 to €6,005m in 2013 2. The key conclusion of ENISA’s 2009 paper on Cloud Computing: benefits, risks and recommendations for information security3 is that the cloud’s economies of scale and flexibility are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and data present a more attractive target to attackers, but cloud-based defences can be more robust, scalable and cost-effective. ENISA’s paper allows an informed assessment of the security risks and benefits of using cloud computing - providing security guidance for potential and existing users of cloud computing. The new economic model has also driven technical change in terms of: Scale: commoditisation and the drive towards economic efficiency have led to massive concentrations of the hardware resources required to provide...
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...Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2012 ISSN: 2277 128X International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering Research Paper Available online at: www.ijarcsse.com E-learning based on Cloud Computing Deepanshu Madan Scholar’s; Computer science & Engg. Deptt. Dehradun institute of technology Dehradun, india Ashish Pant Assistant Professor; Computer Sc. & Engg dept. Dehradun Institute of Technology Dehradun, India. Suneet Kumar Assistant Professor; Computer Sc. & Engg dept. Dehradun Institute of technology Dehradun, India Arjun Arora Assistant Professor; Computer Sc. & Engg dept. Dehradun Institute of Technology Dehradun, India. Abstract : The popularity of learning on the internet, the construction of perfect web-based learning environment has become one of the hot points on researching remote education.It is envisioned that, in the near future, cloud computing will have a significant impact on the educational and learning environment,enabling their own users(i.e.,learners, instructors, and administrators) to perform their tasks effectively with less cost by utilizing the available cloud-based applications offered by the cloud service providers. This paper discusses the use of cloud computing in the educational and learning arena, to be called ‟Education and Learning as a Service” (ELaaS), emphasizing its possible benefits and offerings. It is essential for an educational and learning organization, with its budget restrictions...
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...DEDICATION “ To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn you must first fail.” The writer would like to dedicate this piece of work to those people who inspired and encouraged him in many ways…. To all his mentors and faculty members of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, To his beloved mother and father… To his friends, classmates and special friend.. Above all, to our Lord Jesus Christ who is the source of everything. John Mar ACKNOWLEDGMENT “ Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed.” ( Proverbs 16:3 ) After all the sacrifices, challenges and hardships encountered by the author of this narrative, at last fulfillment of this work came into reality through God’s help, guidance and blessings. To the unending help of many people concerned, who gave their time, continued support and guidance by contributing in the accomplishment of this narrative report, the author would like to extend his profound gratitude and sincere appreciation to the following: Instructor Joey C. Cereno, the subject teacher for helping and giving his precious time to give assistance and encouragement. For his untiring efforts in giving comments and suggestions, for his kindness, knowledge and understanding. To all his mentors and faculty members of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, for being an inspiration and a hand who is always willing...
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...• Cognizant 20-20 Insights How Cloud Computing Impacts Trade Finance Executive Summary As worldwide trade gradually recovers, the financial climate enablers remain challenging. Affordability, accessibility and adherence to newer, stricter Basel regulations stand as unabated hurdles in the path to rapid recovery of trade finance.1 According to a survey conducted by International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 2010, a total of about 42.9 million transactions were registered, representing a 5.81% increase over 2009 — a slight gain after the previous year’s fall. Technological innovations are bound to play a crucial role in accelerating the recovery process through the streamlining of front-end to back-end processes, enabling trade finance institutions to offer customized, low cost, value-added solutions that meet the requirements of geographically diverse customer segments. This paper discusses a key technological advancement, cloud computing, which is already making inroads at leading trade finance software players. This development enables a bank to build a strong trade finance architecture for maximizing profitability, a goal which starts with making such services more affordable and accessible to customers. Within trade finance and other corporate transaction banking services, financial institutions are moving ahead to reap the benefits from lower-cost private cloud services. These cloud services offer dedicated solutions with rigorous security controls, freeing both banks...
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...Global E-Commerce Advanced Multichannel Expectations in Highly Developed Markets Joanne Bethlahmy, Paul Schottmiller Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group December 2011 Cisco IBSG © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Internet Business Solutions Group 1 Executive Summary Many retailers are ―going global‖ to capture a larger share of the $1.4 trillion e-commerce market Leading-edge multichannel experiences are becoming the norm in highly developed markets around the globe To compete, retailers will need to understand customers’ needs and expectations in each market, and deliver highly advanced multichannel experiences Source: Cisco IBSG, 2011 Cisco IBSG © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Internet Business Solutions Group 2 1 Global E-Commerce Background and Challenges Cisco IBSG © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Internet Business Solutions Group 3 E-Commerce 2015: $1.4T, Still High Percentage in Developed, Non-U.S. Markets E-Commerce Spending (US$B) $1,600 Global e-commerce, including travel, will reach $1.36T by 2015—13.5% CAGR over six years This study focuses primarily on highly developed e-commerce and technology markets in Europe and Asia – Generally, high penetration of broadband and mobile, sophisticated delivery infrastructure – Example: U.K., Japan, France, and S. Korea will still represent almost...
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...4.1 ELECTRONİC PAYMENT SYSTEMS (EPS) Issues of trust and acceptance play a more significant role in the e-commerce world than in traditional businesses as far as payment systems are concerned. Traditionally, a customer sees a product, examines it, and then pays for it by cash, check, or credit card (Figure 4.1). In the e-commerce world, in most cases the customer does not actually see the concrete product at the time of transaction, and the method of payment is performed electronically. Figure 4.1 Traditional payment scheme EPSs enable a customer to pay for the goods and services online by using integrated hardware and software systems. The main objectives of EPS are to increase efficiency, improve security, and enhance customer convenience and ease of use. Although these systems are in their immaturity, some significant development has been made. There are several methods and tools that can be used to enable EPS implementation (Figure 4.2) Figure 4.2 Electronic payment scheme While customers pay for goods/services by cash, check, or credit cards in conventional businesses, online buyers may use one of the following EPSs to pay for products/services purchased online: • • • • • • • • • Electronic funds transfer (EFT): EFT involves electronic transfer of money by financial institutions. Payment cards : They contain stored financial value that can be transferred from the customer's computer to the businessman's computer. Credit cards : They are the most popular...
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...Paying Not to Go to the Gym By STEFANO DELLAVIGNA AND ULRIKE MALMENDIER* How do consumers choose from a menu of contracts? We analyze a novel dataset from three U.S. health clubs with information on both the contractual choice and the day-to-day attendance decisions of 7,752 members over three years. The observed consumer behavior is difficult to reconcile with standard preferences and beliefs. First, members who choose a contract with a flat monthly fee of over $70 attend on average 4.3 times per month. They pay a price per expected visit of more than $17, even though they could pay $10 per visit using a 10-visit pass. On average, these users forgo savings of $600 during their membership. Second, consumers who choose a monthly contract are 17 percent more likely to stay enrolled beyond one year than users committing for a year. This is surprising because monthly members pay higher fees for the option to cancel each month. We also document cancellation delays and attendance expectations, among other findings. Leading explanations for our findings are overconfidence about future self-control or about future efficiency. Overconfident agents overestimate attendance as well as the cancellation probability of automatically renewed contracts. Our results suggest that making inferences from observed contract choice under the rational expectation hypothesis can lead to biases in the estimation of consumer preferences. (JEL D00, D12, D91) “Saturday 31 December. New Year’s Resolutions. I WILL...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 1.1 Purpose 1.2 Method of investigation 1.3 Scope 5 8 2 Company Profile 2.1 MobileOne‟s operations 2.1.1 Mobile network 2.1.2 Broadband services 2.1.3 International services 2.2 History 2.3 Key Management of M1 2.4 MobileOne‟s Board of Directors 2.5 Ownership structure 2.6 Key Competition 2.6.1 SingTel Group 2.6.2 Starhub Ltd 2.7 Share Price Performance and Comparison 8 1|Page 3. Industry overview 3.1 Industry Market Share 3.2 Porter‟s Five Forces Analysis 3.2.1The threat of substitute products 3.2.2 The thread of new market entrants 3.2.3 The intensity of rival firms 3.2.4 Customers‟ bargaining power 3.2.5 Suppliers‟ bargaining power 3.3 SWOT analysis 3.3.1 Strengths 3.3.2 Weaknesses 3.3.3 Opportunities 3.3.4 Threats 3.4 Industry life cycle of M1 21 4. Current Issues 4.1 Global financial crisis 4.2 Government regulations 4.3 Government Initiatives – Lower corporate tax rates 4.4 Developments in Next Generation Broadband Network 4.5 Growth in mobile broadband market 4.6 Plans for overseas expansion 4.7 Cross content for Pay TV 2|Page 40 5. Financial Analysis 5.1 Internal liquidity rate 5.2 Turnover ratios 5.3 Operating profitability ratios 5.4 Debt ratios 5.5 Return on equity ratio 47 6. Company Valuation 6.1 Assumptions 6.1.1 Required rate of return (r) 6.1.2 Expected market return (Rm) 6.1.3 Risk free rate(RFR) 6.1.4 Beta (β) 6.1.5 Application of the CAPM 6.2 Estimated growth rate(g) 6.3 Dividend...
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...9-709-462 REV: JANUARY 15, 2010 JUAN ALCACER DAVID COLLIS MARY FUREY The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire? In November 2005, Robert Iger, the newly appointed CEO of the Walt Disney Company, eagerly awaited the box office results of Chicken Little, the company’s second computer-generated (CG) feature film. He knew that, for Disney as a whole to be successful, he had to get the animation business right, particularly the new CG technology that was rapidly supplanting hand-drawn animation.1 Yet the company had been reliant on a contract with animation studio Pixar, which had produced hits such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo, for most of its recent animated film revenue. And the co-production agreement, brokered during the tenure of his predecessor, Michael Eisner, was set to expire in 2006 after the release of Cars, the fifth movie in the five-picture deal. Unfortunately, contract renewal negotiations between Steve Jobs, CEO of Pixar, and Eisner had broken down in 2004 amid reports of personal conflict. When he assumed his new role, Iger reopened the lines of communication between the companies. In fact, he had just struck a deal with Jobs to sell Disneyowned, ABC-produced television shows—such as “Desperate Housewives”—through Apple’s iTunes Music Store.2 Iger knew that a deal with Pixar was possible; it was just a question of what that deal would look like. Did it make the most sense for Disney to simply buy Pixar? Walt Disney Feature Animation ...
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...3 CHAPTER CHAPTER OUTLINE ■ ■ ■ E-Business SE C T ION 3 .1 Bu si n e s s a n d th e I n t er net SECTI O N 3. 2 E- Busi ness D i s r u p t i v e Te c h n o l o g y Evolution of the Internet Accessing Internet Information Providing Internet Information ■ ■ ■ E-Business Basics E-Business Models Organizational Strategies for E-Business Measuring E-Business Success E-Business Benefits and Challenges N e w Tr e n d s i n E - B u s i n e s s : E-Government and M-Commerce ■ ■ ■ ■ opening case study Amazon.com—Not Your Average Bookstore Jeffrey Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, is running what some people refer to as the “world’s biggest bookstore.” The story of Bezos’s virtual bookstore teaches many lessons about online business. Out of nowhere, this digital bookstore turned an industry upside down. What happened here was more than just creating a Web site. Bezos conceived and implemented an intelligent, global digital business. Its business is its technology; its technology is its business. Shocking traditional value chains in the bookselling industry, Amazon opened thousands of virtual bookstores in its first few months of operation. Bezos graduated from Princeton and was the youngest vice president at Banker’s Trust in New York. He had to decide if he would stay and receive his 1994 Wall Street bonus or leave and start a business on the Internet. “I tried to imagine being 80 years old, looking back on my life. I knew that I would hardly regret...
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...3 CHAPTER CHAPTER OUTLINE ■ ■ ■ E-Business SE C T ION 3 .1 Bu si n e s s a n d th e I n t er net SECTI O N 3. 2 E- Busi ness D i s r u p t i v e Te c h n o l o g y Evolution of the Internet Accessing Internet Information Providing Internet Information ■ ■ ■ E-Business Basics E-Business Models Organizational Strategies for E-Business Measuring E-Business Success E-Business Benefits and Challenges N e w Tr e n d s i n E - B u s i n e s s : E-Government and M-Commerce ■ ■ ■ ■ opening case study Amazon.com—Not Your Average Bookstore Jeffrey Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, is running what some people refer to as the “world’s biggest bookstore.” The story of Bezos’s virtual bookstore teaches many lessons about online business. Out of nowhere, this digital bookstore turned an industry upside down. What happened here was more than just creating a Web site. Bezos conceived and implemented an intelligent, global digital business. Its business is its technology; its technology is its business. Shocking traditional value chains in the bookselling industry, Amazon opened thousands of virtual bookstores in its first few months of operation. Bezos graduated from Princeton and was the youngest vice president at Banker’s Trust in New York. He had to decide if he would stay and receive his 1994 Wall Street bonus or leave and start a business on the Internet. “I tried to imagine being 80 years old, looking back on my life. I knew that I would hardly regret...
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...Annual Report June 2012 June 2012 Annual Report SKY NETWORK TELEVISION LIMITED Contents 1 3 4 10 16 20 23 24 27 28 29 30 31 32 34 77 78 79 83 85 89 90 91 92 Highlights Chairman’s Letter Chief Executive’s Review Business Overview Financial Overview Board of Directors 2012 Financials Financial Trends Statement Directors’ Responsibility Statement Income Statement Statement of Comprehensive Income Balance Sheet Statement of Changes in Equity Statement of Cash Flows Notes to the Financial Statements Independent Auditors’ Report Other Information Corporate Governance Statements Interests Register Company and Bondholder Information Waivers and Information Share Market and Other Information Directory SKY Channels Highlights Total revenue $843m EBITDA Total subscribers 846,931 ARPU up 2.1% $336m Capital expenditure $71.93 MY SKY subscribers $137m NPAT 382,495 Churn $123m Employees FTEs 14.2% SoHo subscribers (since Nov 2011) 1,091 69,567 Highlights | 1 “More households “ than ever before now subscribe to SKY 2 | SKY Annual Report 2012 Chairman’s Letter The 2012 financial year will be remembered in SKY New Zealand’s history as the year we produced the Rugby World Cup and the All Blacks won. This event showcased our renowned sport production expertise and was one of SKY’s greatest achievements. Despite an economic climate that continues to challenge us, SKY’s performance has remained strong. We’ve seen...
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...Marketing DeMystified A Self-Teaching Guide Donna Anselmo New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-173718-0 MHID: 0-07-173718-9 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-171391-7, MHID: 0-07-171391-3. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative please e-mail us at bulksales@mcgraw-hill.com. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that neither the author nor the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal,...
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...The Wealth of Networks The Wealth of Networks How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom Yochai Benkler Yale University Press New Haven and London Copyright _ 2006 by Yochai Benkler. All rights reserved. Subject to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. The author has made an online version of the book available under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license; it can be accessed through the author’s website at http://www.benkler.org. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Benkler, Yochai. The wealth of networks : how social production transforms markets and freedom / Yochai Benkler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11056-2 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-300-11056-1 (alk. paper) 1. Information society. 2. Information networks. 3. Computer networks—Social aspects. 4. Computer networks—Economic aspects. I. Title. HM851.B457 2006 303.48'33—dc22 2005028316 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1...
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