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Technology Today

Technology Today. Monica stoica. Credit Cards the past 10 years. A hacker from Russia stole about 300,000 credit cards from CD Universe and published them on a website when the company refused to pay him

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Technology Today

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  1. Technology Today Monica stoica

  2. Credit Cards the past 10 years • A hacker from Russia stole about 300,000 credit cards from CD Universe and published them on a website when the company refused to pay him • In New York 3 men working for credit card companies stole 30,000 cards and caused damages of $2.7 millions • 8 million credit cards were stolen in february 2003 • Credit card fraud in US causes a loss of 7 cents for every $100 of sales • In France because credit cards have microchips (smart cards) the fraud is less

  3. Pop up, Pop under, Pop in adds • If you were to suppress all the adds your browser would be about 30-40% more efficient • The adds are not limited anymore to just pornographic sites as they once were: New York Times, AOL, CNN, Wall Street Journal will pop up adds if you visit their website • Question: If everybody starts blocking adds how are websites supposed to stay in business?

  4. Block them! • Ways to block them: • Buy software from companies like: Pop Up Stopper Companion, AdSubstract Pro, WebWasher, panicware.com • Abandon Internet Explorer and use Netscape, Opera, OmniWeb as browsers. They allow you to turn off options like “Open unrequested windows” • It would be nice to have options like “Answer unrequested phone calls” or “accept unsolicited mail” that we could turn off!

  5. Federal Trade Commission • Receives 40,000 spam complains per day at www.ftc.gov/spam • People can forward spam at ucs@ftc.gov • To date they have collected more than 12 million such spam emails • They can bring law suites agains some of them: fraud cases like selling .usa domains that do not exist, or companies that forced modems to dial international calls • On may 30, 2002 the European parliament passed a ban on unsolicited commercial messages

  6. Will spam ever become illegal? • There are Senate bills to make spam illegal but none has become law to date. • There are many lobbists including big companies like: Citicorp, Charles Schwab, Procter&Gamble, National Retail Federation, American Insurance Association, Securities Industry that oppose such bills

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