Security and Privacy on the Internet

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This paper explains that, for some types of organizations, laws require that identification of individuals associated with data be maintained, which requires that these organizations make the required security arrangements for the storage and transmission of personal information. The author warns that if a person receives an e-mail from the internet service provider or some other contact asking for confirmation of his or her password, this should not be done till the matter is confirmed with the company. The paper identifies two types of privacy violations: Targeted attacks, which are called stalking an individual person or industrial espionage against the company and data harvesting, which takes vast amounts of data to prepare a list of people or organizations to match the requirements of those persons or organizations seeking this information.

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"Cookies are used in the computers to solve many interconnection difficulties, but their greatest use is for maintaining a Session ID and this keeps identifying the user of the site to be the same while the entire interaction goes on. This is useful for sites that must have authentication for interaction, this cookie is passed on to the user after the session is completed and thus maintains a permanent possible link to the site. Some attackers can use different methods like sniffing or cross site scripting for getting a SID, then they may use that identity to go on with their own session."

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