Digital Negative

Teslacrypt (a.k.a. EccKrypt ) is a malicious program that encrypts users ' files without the knowledge or consent of the user. It falls into the sub-category of ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts the user 's files using AES encryption and forces them to pay a certain amount of money to decrypt the user 's information, essentially holding a person 's data as hostage. It first emerged around February 2015 along with its counterpart, Alphacrypt, which was released in April 2015, and it has proven capable of infecting most versions of Windows including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. It can infect multiple types of files, but among the most infected are video game files, including, but not limited to: saved games, user profiles and recorded replays. However, non-gamers are also at risk, Teslacrypt can infect other file types as well, including Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader and Java. Most infections happen in the larger, more developed countries. The most numerous infected users are in the USA, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. A user is typically infected by this ransomware when they visit a hacked website infected with an Angler exploit kit. Usually the developers of the malicious program will install this exploit kit on the infected site, and once an unprotected user visits it, the exploit kit will begin scanning their system searching for outdated and unprotected programs. Once successfully exploited, the kit will download…

Spondylosis is a form of spinal degeneration. An individual’s hearing can be affected as well. Headphones, when turned up loud can damage the eardrum which can cause slight deafness. Technology can be a beautiful thing, but too much of a good thing can end up being bad. Digital dementia or scatter brain, is a term made by top German neuroscientist, Manfred Spitzer. In Spitzer’s book, he defines digital dementia as, “overuse of digital technology is resulting in the breakdown of…

Digital media, or any kind of content that can be communicated electronically through a computer, has gained increasing popularity over the last decade. With technology being at its height, digital media and the use of smart phones, computers, and games have become an essential part to everyone’s daily life. It is something that many people cannot live without and that they rely on for not only entertainment, but also work and school. With the influence of digital media getting stronger every…

Do you use social media? Well, You are not alone, it is one of the best communication multimedia where you will connect to the people, who are distant from your place. There are many advantages of having a digital communication than not having a communication. People who are against the digital communication believe that; it is not an effective way to communicate via electronic communication. The way we shop, business, and make plans for the future have completely altered and revolutionized the…

Guffey and Loewy (2012) covers the movement into technological data movement and explains that organizations are connected seven days a week. Linking the change from the historical letter and memorandums into the digital data, electronic messages are taking over the majority of informational exchanges. While keeping the letter and memorandum, but attaching it to an electronic data stream, keeps the past connected to the future. Moreover, they connect the digital data as a cover letter to the…

INTRODUCTION Interactive learning is a learning system that combines together the effect of social networking and urban computing within the same curriculum. Interactive learning has become dominant from a round 2000 and this is due to the increase in the number of people involved in the digital technology and virtual communication. It is a system where the boundary between the educator and the learner means completely nothing and the educators can no longer be regarded as the keeper of…

Since videogames have the capacity to engage children in learning experience this could be the best sources to attract the attention of a child. According to Alshaiji, Ohoud state that“The use of digital media has shaped our lives and the way we live and interact with others. Children are no exclusion to his rule. Today’s children of all ages are living in a high media influenced environment with access to a variety of digital electronic devices which are accessible both at home and elsewhere…

My Response to Ritchin and Balsamo. From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture. “Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a…

OVERVIEW: I AM DIGITAL™ 101 The time to bring “I Am Digital™” literacy in the mainstream of American communities is now. Digital literacy can be defined as the ability to access, analyze and engage in critical thinking about the array of messages they receive and send in order to make informed decisions about the everyday issues they face regarding health, work, politics and leisure. Most American families live in “constantly connected” homes with 500+ TV channels, broadband Internet access, and…

Digital Supply Chain https://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.itbusinessedge.com/imagesvr_ce/2707/AribaDigitalSupplyChain01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/how-to-build-business-value-with-a-digital-supply-chain.html&h=353&w=520&tbnid=yf44XYnA5Lmd2M:&docid=7Fkm-D6ZnbNoiM&ei=slZqVq2xOYute7OSsKgD&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwit0q_LgdPJAhWL1h4KHTMJDDUQMwhZKDMwMw “Supply chain digitization means moving all aspects of a supply chain online, including procurement, invoicing,…