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Bozena Tkaczyk's blogs
BT Week 9 - IT in workplace
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort December 4, 2015 - 3:20pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortMany exployers feel that they have the right to monitor their worker’s activity. Workplace monitoring occurs either to safeguard employees, protect the interests of the employer and/or to secure the interests of their clients. Afterall,...BT Week 11 - Social Media Technologies
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort December 3, 2015 - 12:43pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortSocial Media has become a large and important part of daily life in contemporary society. It has been commonly defined to refer to “the many relatively inexpensive and widely accessible electronic tools that enable anyone to publish and access...BT Week 10 - Globalization
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort December 1, 2015 - 8:44pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortInformation Technologies and globalization are tightly linked; it is this connnection that is propelling globalization at ever increasing speed. Information Technologies have created a “border-less” flow of information and...BT Week 8 - Canada Completes Ratification of Convention on Cybercrime
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 25, 2015 - 4:20pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort"Canada Completes Ratification of Convention on CybercrimeJuly 8, 2015 - Ottawa, Ontario - Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development CanadaThe Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the...BT Week 7 - Cyber extortion
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 24, 2015 - 11:03amPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort“A cyberextortionist is an individual or group who uses email as an offensive force. ….. The message sent through the email usually demands money in exchange for the prevention of the attack” Cyber extortion can be...BT Week 7 - CoinVault and Bitcryptor
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 24, 2015 - 10:17amPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortCoinVault and Bitcryptor variants of ransomware have been declared dead after the authors were arrested and decryption keys were recovered by police.The alleged authors of the ransomware were arrested on September 14th, 2015, in Amersfoort,...BT Week 4 - Encryption - Why should the public be concerned with encryption?
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 24, 2015 - 10:14amPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortMythili Sampathkumar, reporter: "Encryption helps validate the veracity of information. In the age of Twitter and citizen journalism, the spread of false information is rapid and widespread. In the wake of the Paris attacks, that false...BT Week 5 - Pair 1 - Intellectual Property
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 5, 2015 - 3:38pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortPair 1 Manuel/BozenaYou have two computers, one at work and one at home. You have only one license for a word processor, but you have installed it on both machines. It is physically impossible for you to ever use both machines at once.Some...BT Week 6 - Apple vs. Samsung
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 5, 2015 - 12:24pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortApple vs. SamsungApple and Samsung announced an agreement to participate in court-supervised mediation of their years-long patent dispute. Apple and Samsung attorneys agreed to enter mediation covering settlement terms relating to the...
BT Week 4 - Strong Encryption should be restricted to licensed users only
By Bozena Tkaczyk in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort October 22, 2015 - 1:23amPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortBuilding trust is important for ensuring people everywhere can use technology with confidence. In a society where more and more personal and sensitive data is stored and share across digital networks, security and privacy are of utmost importance....
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