Phishing

What I know
- I don't know anything about the topic itself

Questions
- What is fishing?
- How does fishing work?

Useful Websites
- http://cybercellmumbai.gov.in/html/cyber-crimes/phishing.html
- http://www.csoonline.com/article/221737/phishing-the-basics
- http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/cybercrime/phishing/
What I Learned
- Phishing: the act or attempt to take or steal information from users such as usernames, passwords and credit card details; by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
- What they do to get your info is send mails saying to update info in a website but the link on the mail is false so you put your info in these special websites.
- They can take your info of any type such as credit cards, bank account passwords and others then they will or can sell it to other people or to the black market. 
- Phishing is based on real fishing because they put out bait and some will ignore others will be tempted.
- There is a technology known as sender authentication which will go into the mail sent and see if it's really sent from the website "the original" so let's say you get an e-mail from bancolombia saying you need to change your password; it will trace were the mail is sent from. this is called pharming a type of phishing.

How this topic related to my life
- This is related to my life because know a days there are alot of things that I may be using the internet for. So I could acidentaly give my information to a false site that will use this against me. 
This can turn in very serious consequences for both parties. 

Questions I still have
.- Is the illegal act rear or very frequent? Why?

white hat hackers

I really know a little about white hat hackers:
- It's a term used for a computer hacker or a computer security system.

Questions:
- What do they do?
- Is there other types of hat hackers and what do they have in common or different form white hackers?
- Whats the definition of white hat hackers?

Good links I used:
- http://www.secpoint.com/What-is-a-White-Hat.html

- http://wordspy.com/words/whitehathacker.asp

Things I learned: 

- White hat hackers definition: A hacker which try security systems to see if there any vulnerability of the system and will tell the page or place this is used (vendor). 

- Theres not only white hat hackers but theres also black hat hackers and grey hat hackers. The black hat hackers are hackers which hack intending a crime. The grey hat hackers are much alike as the white hat hackers but they don't only tell the vendor they also tell crackers.  

- The white hat hackers are said to be ethical hackers which only hack to see if the security system is good enough so that other hackers which are trying to do bad won't be able to hack it.

- These people are employed by the organizations to be the network security professionals. Most come from the CNS 4011 which are teams of hackers there red which act in aggression and the blue team which act in a defensive mode.

- White hat hacking started as a "security evaluating" by the U.S Air Force, they found out it had some vulnerability's. They also found out that the U.S had being doing this.

- The tactic of ethical hacking was made by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema.

Summary: So what I learned was that there hackers that are used for good. This connects to my life because theres many people which maybe want to make other miserable by hacking there private things and the white hackers would already tell the security system of the vendors; like if I have my bank account and the hack the system to see whats wrong and need to be strengthened.

Questions I still have: How do you ask a white hat hacker to help you see if you security system is good?

Digital Nation

1. I Agree that kids get distracted easily because we are thinking about everything else not school or homework.
2. I don't agree that this is a psychiatric disorder because we use it for other things in life not only gaming and social things.
3. I agree that it's bad to be always using electronic devices because you will never do anything else but also I disagree because we use this a communication device.
4. I agree this can become a deadly addiction it can hurt you, your, family, and friends.
5. I agree that it's great that they learn the internet rules because they will make them more careful in these things.
6. I disagree that technology is oxygen because you can live with out it as well as with it.
7. I agree that google makes you smarter because theres everything to learn from.
8. That I disagree that they shouldn't spy on the kids because it's there privacy they should have trust in them because if there not trusted they will start doing worse things.
9. I think that their not the dumbest but not the greatest because maybe they don't do well in school, but they can do better in other things
10. I agree that it's a problem that theres no privacy because they can hack and see all your things and also most of your information is in the internet.
11. I agree that most people in age should learn how to use the internet because it's becoming everything.
12. I agree that gaming was giving them another world not isolating them because they are creating relationships and other things.
13. I agree that the internet connects people in different ways because they like the same things, they want to meet new people and other things.
14. If we keep on fighting our wars with droids we will become more computerized but at the same time they don't kill the men thats why I really don't agree or disagree.
15. I agree that technology has separated us from our families and friends because at first we saw all the movies together but know we start to separate to se them alone on our iPads and iPods.

Game Design

Game Design

What I know about my topic?

- Game designers are writers they create the story the back round stories and the other things.
- To make one game you need many game designers because they all help with the story or back story  of the characters or places and it helps by giving more ideas.


Questions about my topic that I have?
- What are the parts needed for creating a game?
- Why is there normally only one story in the game designing industry?
- Is there one or many designers in this thing?

Useful Links I used in class
- http://famousaspect.com/?p=105


What I learned about the topic
- The game designers have to make a story that goes on and on that has a sense to it. It has to have a point an idea it follows.
- In the creation of a game there's the principle game designer which takes care of art work of box, who's going to buy it, what is about, why is it like that. All the general things.
-Then theres the ones which do the system and content.
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Short summary of how topic connects to my life
- This impacts my life because I'm an average gamer and I really wanted to know how this was done and who helped in it. Know I now somethings such as who work in it how many people are helping to create this story and back stories locations and other things.