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It looks like Lenovo has been installing adware onto new consumer computers from the company that activates when taken out of the box for the first time. The adware, named Superfish, is reportedly installed on a number of Lenovo’s consumer laptops out of the box. The software injects third-party ads on Google searches and websites without the user’s permission. 
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![ETHICS: Researcher uses botnet to map internet - vital public service, or cybercriminal dodginess? [POLL] | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/PDSd3aWn2kV9MwvoMl_hUjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
An anonymous researcher just published a paper that claims to have mapped out almost the entire internet for the first, and perhaps the last, time.
Gust MEES's insight:
When research uses practices who go against all Ethics by using a botnet, which means that computer are getting first infected and than later connected together to form a botnet to find out about the map of the internet, one should ask about where RESEARCH is going :((( That certainly isn't good for the reputation of RESEARCH!!!
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Ethics
Gust MEES's curator insight,
March 25, 2013 1:24 PM
When research uses practices who go against all Ethics by using a botnet, which means that computer are getting first infected and than later connected together to form a botnet to find out about the map of the internet, one should ask about where RESEARCH is going :((( That certainly isn't good for the reputation of RESEARCH!!!
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Ethics
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The 41-year-old was arrested at his home in Stoke-on-Trent, central England, on suspicion of encouraging a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, Scotland Yard said.
===> He is suspected of encouraging other web users to bombard the websites with requests, causing them to crash. <===
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Gust MEES
A bad example about what sharing means :( Sharing means to share ethic sharing, NOT sharing about what to do bad! There are rules and laws which everybody has to respect for the well-being of a society! This should get taught to the students and learners, includes the knowledge of being a good Cyber-Citizen. Hashtags for Twitter are #eCitizen, #digcit, #digitalcitizen
Check out also my Curation about people who got hard prison for such actions and talk with your students about that, please:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?q=prison
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?q=jail
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AVG security researchers have come across malicious code written by youngsters, some as young as 11 years old. The researchers believe kids are testing newfound computer skills in the wild, and that they need to know the dangers of such activity.
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It looks like Lenovo has been installing adware onto new consumer computers from the company that activates when taken out of the box for the first time.
The adware, named Superfish, is reportedly installed on a number of Lenovo’s consumer laptops out of the box. The software injects third-party ads on Google searches and websites without the user’s permission.