1. Barnes & Noble
a. You can create a password-protected Barnes & Noble.com account to complete an order or to save items in your Wish List. To create an account, we require that you provide us with the following Personal Customer Information: your email address (which may not be associated with another active Barnes & Noble.com account), and your first and last names. You will also have to create a password, select a security question and input a security answer.
b. They collect this information because it helps them set up your account so you can buy things online.
c. Yes, they send it to their subcontractors, service providers, membership programs, credit card companies, law enforcement agencies and other trustworthy third parties.
d. It will always be in their system
e. no
f. no
g. yes, to enhance the browsing and shopping experience.
2. Wal-Mart
a. You have to set up an account and they need your first and last name, e-mail address, and password.
b. To buy items online
c. No
d. until you cancel your membership
e. no
f.no
g. yes, used to identify you when you visit the site and to enhance and customize your online shopping experience.
3. Dell, Inc.
a&b. They collect the information you give us in order to provide you products and services, inform you about our products and fulfill your orders and service requests.
c. yes, with other corporate affiliates.
d. it will always be in the system
e. no
f. yes, Global Privacy Policy
g. yes, to let the company know when you visit their site.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Ebay and Paypal
Ebay
1. Highest priced car: $119,000, 5,517 miles, BMW:Z8 2003
2. Lowest priced car: $5,500, 134,000 miles, BMW: 3-series 1987
3. How can I register to buy items on eBay?
You find an item, learn about the item, review the sellers feedback, bid or buy the item now, and then pay for it,
4. How can I register to sell items on eBay?
You must be a registered member and then you add your item through the selling link.
5. How can I trade safely at the eBay site?
Sign a contract with the seller or buyer and pay with a credit card not with a money order.
Paypal
There are 3 types of Paypal accounts: personal, premier, and business. Each account contains a unique e-mail address and financial information. Personal is the below average account,premier is the most common offering the basics, and business is the delux package.
1. Highest priced car: $119,000, 5,517 miles, BMW:Z8 2003
2. Lowest priced car: $5,500, 134,000 miles, BMW: 3-series 1987
3. How can I register to buy items on eBay?
You find an item, learn about the item, review the sellers feedback, bid or buy the item now, and then pay for it,
4. How can I register to sell items on eBay?
You must be a registered member and then you add your item through the selling link.
5. How can I trade safely at the eBay site?
Sign a contract with the seller or buyer and pay with a credit card not with a money order.
Paypal
There are 3 types of Paypal accounts: personal, premier, and business. Each account contains a unique e-mail address and financial information. Personal is the below average account,premier is the most common offering the basics, and business is the delux package.
Better Business Bureau and Amazon
1. How can I tell if a transaction is secure?
Your browser displays the icon of a locked padlocked on the bottom of the screen and if you have Secure Sockets Layer it protects your credit card information that you send over the internet.
2. What is the safest way to pay for an online purchase?
Using a credit card because if you have an unauthorized charge, your only reliable paying up to $50.
3.To whom can I complain if I am not satisfied with an online purchase?
Either Better Business Bureau, The Federal Trade Commissions Consumer Complaint Form, or the National Association of Attorneys General
4. What is the BBBOnline Privacy Seal Program?
It incorporates privacy notice requirements with other general good business practices to show site visitors that you have met BBB standards for the web.
5. What requirements must companies meet to earn the BBBOnline privacy seal?
6. What is the BBBOnline Reliability Seal Program?
It gives confidence in the Better Business Bureau name, inclusion in the BBBOnline safe shopping site, and it gives protection to your company and customers.
7. What requirements must companies meet to earn the BBBOnline reliability seal?
Become a member of the Better Business Bureau where company is headquartered;
Provide the BBB with information regarding company ownership and management and the street address and telephone number at which they do business, which may be verified by the BBB in a visit to the company's physical premises; Be in business a minimum of one year (an exception can be made if a new business is a spinoff or a division of an existing business, which is known to and has a positive track record with the BBB); Have a satisfactory complaint handling record with the BBB; and Respond promptly to all consumer complaints.
8. How soon should you return an item for the price to be fully refundable?
Within 30 days
9. Who pays the shipping costs if an item was shipped in error?
The company that sent the item.
10. Can you return a CD, DVD, or VHS tape that has been open?
Yes, but you only get a partial refund (if returned within 30 days)
Your browser displays the icon of a locked padlocked on the bottom of the screen and if you have Secure Sockets Layer it protects your credit card information that you send over the internet.
2. What is the safest way to pay for an online purchase?
Using a credit card because if you have an unauthorized charge, your only reliable paying up to $50.
3.To whom can I complain if I am not satisfied with an online purchase?
Either Better Business Bureau, The Federal Trade Commissions Consumer Complaint Form, or the National Association of Attorneys General
4. What is the BBBOnline Privacy Seal Program?
It incorporates privacy notice requirements with other general good business practices to show site visitors that you have met BBB standards for the web.
5. What requirements must companies meet to earn the BBBOnline privacy seal?
6. What is the BBBOnline Reliability Seal Program?
It gives confidence in the Better Business Bureau name, inclusion in the BBBOnline safe shopping site, and it gives protection to your company and customers.
7. What requirements must companies meet to earn the BBBOnline reliability seal?
Become a member of the Better Business Bureau where company is headquartered;
Provide the BBB with information regarding company ownership and management and the street address and telephone number at which they do business, which may be verified by the BBB in a visit to the company's physical premises; Be in business a minimum of one year (an exception can be made if a new business is a spinoff or a division of an existing business, which is known to and has a positive track record with the BBB); Have a satisfactory complaint handling record with the BBB; and Respond promptly to all consumer complaints.
8. How soon should you return an item for the price to be fully refundable?
Within 30 days
9. Who pays the shipping costs if an item was shipped in error?
The company that sent the item.
10. Can you return a CD, DVD, or VHS tape that has been open?
Yes, but you only get a partial refund (if returned within 30 days)
10 Tips to Protect Personal Information
1. Use anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall software—and make sure it’s up-to-date.
2. Read privacy policies.
3. Configure your browser or operating system to manage pop-ups, cookies or block specific Web sites
4. Use more than one email address so that one is reserved solely for your personal communication.
5. Look for third-party seals or certification—and make sure the seals are valid.
6. Back up important files
7. Provide email addresses and information that do not identify you personally.
8. Change passwords on a regular basis
9. Use email encryption
10. Log-in anonymously or use anonymizing or free ID Web sites to generate your ID.
1. Basically everytime your computer tells you that you need updates dont postpone them and do them. It will keep your computer updated and help protect it against hackers. If your computer is not up to date then it will be easier for hackers to get your information.
2. ALWAYS read the privacy policy to see how your personal information will be protected and if others will be able to access it. If the site doesn't protect your information well then you should think twice about putting your information on that site.
3. To protect yourself from pop-ups you can use anti-spyware software. To protect you from cookies you need to check the private policies and download advance cookie management tools. To block specific websites you can add the anti-phishing tool.
4. Keep the inbox you use to talk to your friends and family make sure it is free of spam by using seperate e-mails.
5. Investigate 3rd parties and make sure the seal is valid. Don't just give information to any site.
6. Copy important files to a floppy disk or something you can remove from the computer.
7. If you are asked personal information make sure you know why you are giving that information and where it will go.
8. Change your passwords at least every 90 days
9. This will prevent your information that you send across the internet from being intercepted or tampered with.
10. This allows you to reduce the amount of personal information accessible to others online.
2. Read privacy policies.
3. Configure your browser or operating system to manage pop-ups, cookies or block specific Web sites
4. Use more than one email address so that one is reserved solely for your personal communication.
5. Look for third-party seals or certification—and make sure the seals are valid.
6. Back up important files
7. Provide email addresses and information that do not identify you personally.
8. Change passwords on a regular basis
9. Use email encryption
10. Log-in anonymously or use anonymizing or free ID Web sites to generate your ID.
1. Basically everytime your computer tells you that you need updates dont postpone them and do them. It will keep your computer updated and help protect it against hackers. If your computer is not up to date then it will be easier for hackers to get your information.
2. ALWAYS read the privacy policy to see how your personal information will be protected and if others will be able to access it. If the site doesn't protect your information well then you should think twice about putting your information on that site.
3. To protect yourself from pop-ups you can use anti-spyware software. To protect you from cookies you need to check the private policies and download advance cookie management tools. To block specific websites you can add the anti-phishing tool.
4. Keep the inbox you use to talk to your friends and family make sure it is free of spam by using seperate e-mails.
5. Investigate 3rd parties and make sure the seal is valid. Don't just give information to any site.
6. Copy important files to a floppy disk or something you can remove from the computer.
7. If you are asked personal information make sure you know why you are giving that information and where it will go.
8. Change your passwords at least every 90 days
9. This will prevent your information that you send across the internet from being intercepted or tampered with.
10. This allows you to reduce the amount of personal information accessible to others online.
Monday, September 24, 2007
HACKERS- Who and Why?
Hackers are people who can get into anyones computer and look at anything they want to. They invade peoples privacy and can steal anything they feel like from your computer.
The hackers from the video said they hacked because they could. They would do it when they were bored. Also, because they feel like they're helping peope realize that people are able to hack and to keep updating their computer with the best security devices.
I feel that hackers in a way are helping and hurting the community depending on who and why they hack. If they hack into the government to steal information or to steal an identity then they are hurting the community but if they are just warning people to download more security and not stealing any information and looking at their private files than in a way they are helping.
If you have been hacked then you would report the crime to either: FBI Local Office, U.S. Secret Service, or Internet Crime Complaint Center. The FBI Local Office number is (217) 522-9675.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center.
Hacked by a Corporation?
A "cookie" allows websites and ad agencies to be able see your online activity. Your profile information can be sold or bought by corporations to get details about your personal life.
A web bug is invisible and its a hidden tracking device. Web bugs are not only used in web pages, but in email and other documents. Trackers embed web bugs in email in order to know exactly when you have read your mail.
A script such as JavaScript and Microsoft's JScript and VBScript make it very easy to steal even more information about you.These simple scripts can steal your address book, your business and financial documents and other sensitive and private information--virtually any file on your system. Further, the scripts can write files to your hard drive including viruses.
To help protect you from these devices can be difficult. For "cookies" you can set to your computer "Ask for each cookie" and you can be aware of them. Web bugs are nearly impossible to manage. But you can add image filtering tools to help keep your browser from receiving them. To protect from scripts turn OFF your scripting in your web and e-mail browsers.
The hackers from the video said they hacked because they could. They would do it when they were bored. Also, because they feel like they're helping peope realize that people are able to hack and to keep updating their computer with the best security devices.
I feel that hackers in a way are helping and hurting the community depending on who and why they hack. If they hack into the government to steal information or to steal an identity then they are hurting the community but if they are just warning people to download more security and not stealing any information and looking at their private files than in a way they are helping.
If you have been hacked then you would report the crime to either: FBI Local Office, U.S. Secret Service, or Internet Crime Complaint Center. The FBI Local Office number is (217) 522-9675.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center.
Hacked by a Corporation?
A "cookie" allows websites and ad agencies to be able see your online activity. Your profile information can be sold or bought by corporations to get details about your personal life.
A web bug is invisible and its a hidden tracking device. Web bugs are not only used in web pages, but in email and other documents. Trackers embed web bugs in email in order to know exactly when you have read your mail.
A script such as JavaScript and Microsoft's JScript and VBScript make it very easy to steal even more information about you.These simple scripts can steal your address book, your business and financial documents and other sensitive and private information--virtually any file on your system. Further, the scripts can write files to your hard drive including viruses.
To help protect you from these devices can be difficult. For "cookies" you can set to your computer "Ask for each cookie" and you can be aware of them. Web bugs are nearly impossible to manage. But you can add image filtering tools to help keep your browser from receiving them. To protect from scripts turn OFF your scripting in your web and e-mail browsers.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
ICANN
What is ICANN?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. They are a public partnership that is helping stabilize the internet.
What is the Domain Name System?
The Domain Name System (DNS) helps users find their way around the Internet. Every computer on the internet has their own IP address.
What is ICANN's Role?
ICANN is responsible for coordinating the management of the technical elements of the DNS to ensure resolvability so that all users of the Internet can find all valid addresses.It does this by overseeing the distribution of unique technology throughout the internet.
IP Addresses
IP Addresses for my Favorite Domain Names:
Domain Name IP
1. myspace.com 216.178.38.219
2. Facebook.com 69.63.176.10
3. Yahoo.com 66.94.234.13
4. Hotmail.com 72.51.27.57
5. Macys.com 63.73.131.68
Domain Name IP
1. myspace.com 216.178.38.219
2. Facebook.com 69.63.176.10
3. Yahoo.com 66.94.234.13
4. Hotmail.com 72.51.27.57
5. Macys.com 63.73.131.68
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Exam Questions
- Dial-Up: When using this method of internet you will need a modem, telephone line and a computer. This method is the cheapest form of internet but it's also the slowest. Another disadvantage is you can't use the telephone while you are on the internet. Dial-up is probably best for older people who don't download and are on it mainly for leisure.
- Cable: When using this method of internet you will need a cable modem, a line splitter, computer and cable. This method is a dedicated connection (which means it's always connected to the internet) and it's high-speed. Some disadvantages are it will slow down if too many neighbors are on the internet and it's only offered where cable is offered. Cable is best for teeneagers or early 20's because this form of internet would be good for downloading music, movies, and etc.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
"Free" Internet Service Offers- are they really free?
The Federal Trade Commission (TFC) wants everyone to know that some "free" offers for the internet may really costs you a lot of money in the long run because of the restrictions and conditions on those offers may not be written clearly. Also, most of the "free" offers only last a month then after that you automatically get signed up and charged for the months after the "free" one.
The FTC wants the people to know what questions to ask before you sign up for these "free" offers that way you don't lose money in the long run.
1. How do you cancel the service? Can you cancel online or by calling the service provider's phone number?
2. If you sign up for service, when are you billed each month?
3. If you sign up for service, are you committing to paying for the service for a year?
If you want to know more information on this topic go to: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/freeispalrt.shtm
The FTC wants the people to know what questions to ask before you sign up for these "free" offers that way you don't lose money in the long run.
1. How do you cancel the service? Can you cancel online or by calling the service provider's phone number?
2. If you sign up for service, when are you billed each month?
3. If you sign up for service, are you committing to paying for the service for a year?
If you want to know more information on this topic go to: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/freeispalrt.shtm
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