Monday:
Homework - readings for today:
- How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
- How to see everything Google knows about you
Review: HTTP and
HTML
Begin discussion of Google,
cloud computing, dynamic web pages
Videos:
- Being a Google Autocompleter (2:37)
- How Google Search works (3:15)
- How Search Ads Work (2:38)
- How Google Apps Work (1:51)
- Google Data Center (4:52)
Tuesday:
Homework - reading for today:
Homework - reading for today:
Complete discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.
Video (in class):
Wednesday:
Homework:
group 2 current events:
p1: Christina, Shai, Arsala, Kurt
p2: Willow, Jessica, Curran,
Eshaan, Danish
readings for today:
- New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)
- Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes(2003)
- The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
- What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
- Think You're Safe at Starbucks? Think Again. (2013)
- Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2015)
Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.
Thursday:
Homework - reading for today:
- Email Phishing and Scams (2011) -or- How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks) or both if you're so inclined. . .
- Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
- Cyberthieves Silently Copy Your Passwords As You Type (2006)
- Growing Target for Identity Thieves: Kids(2006)
- Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
- Another Lawsuit Filed Over School Webcam Spying (2010)
- Privacy advocates try to keep 'creepy' 'evesdropping" Hello Barbie from hitting shelves
- I’m terrified of my new TV: Why I’m scared to turn this thing on — and you’d be, too
Video (in class):
Friday:
Homework - reading for today:
- How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
- Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia (2007)
- The Enemy Within (2010) - a long but worthwhile article with one really bad word, please ignore it. There's also a worksheet that goes along with it.
- If North Korea Did Hack Sony, It's a Whole New Kind of Cyberterrorism (2014)
- Cyberspace Becomes Second Front in Russia’s Clash With NATO (2015)
- Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016)
- How Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million a Day from U.S. Advertisers (2016)
- What We Know About Friday's Massive East Coast Internet Outage (2016)
Video (in class):
- Cyberwar Threat from NOVA (2015)
- Ukraine blames cyberattack for Christmas power outage (2016)
