The iPremier Compant (A): Denial of Service Attack Summary of the case: iPremier‚ a Seattle based company‚ was founded in 1996 by two students from Swathmore College. iPremier had become one of a few success web-based commerce‚ selling luxury‚ rare‚ and vintage goods over the Internet. Most of iPremier’s goods sell between fifty and a few hundred dollars‚ and the customer buys the products online with his or her credit card. iPremier’s competitive advantage is their flexible return policies
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In a recent Information Management lecture we went through the case of iPremier (read the full case) which is a popular case study from Harvard Business School. It was a made up case but the recent high profile hacking stories (such as Gawker) show that companies are not taking security seriously. The background is that iPremier suffered a DOS attack in the middle of the night which caused chaos in the company. After an hour the attack stopped and the company went back to business as normal. Two
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Denial of Gay Marriage: Macro Theories and Effects on the Population Introduction and Effects For thousands of years heterosexual couples have been wed into the institution of marriage. Until recently‚ the population of same sex partners who are denied equal familial rights was primarily only an issue within the gay‚ lesbian‚ bisexual and transgendered (GBLT) community. Same sex relationships parallel those of traditional marriage such as commitment‚ sacrifice‚ and sharing of responsibilities
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International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA)‚ Vol.3‚ No.2‚ March 2011 A ROBUST MECHANISM FOR DEFENDING DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS ON WEB SERVERS Jaydip Sen Innovation Labs‚ Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.‚ Bengal Intelligent Park‚ Salt Lake Electronic Complex‚ Kolkata‚ INDIA Jaydip.Sen@tcs.com ABSTRACT Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as a popular means of causing mass targeted service disruptions‚ often for extended periods of time
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Academic Deference and Discrimination Involving Tenure Denial in Kunda versus Muhlenberg College School of Health Management A. T. Still University Academic Deference and Discrimination Involving Tenure Denial in Kunda versus Muhlenberg College Connie Rae Kunda‚ an untenured faculty member at Muhlenberg College brought suit against Muhlenberg College for sexual discrimination in her bid for tenure at the college (Sloviter‚ 2007). The district court awarded reinstatement along with back
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Essay on ”Race‚ Class‚ Violence and Denial: Mass Murder and the Pathologies of Privilege” by Tim Wise Often when racial inequality and discrimination is being discussed‚ we get to think of terms such as “white privilege” and American history with the Civil Rights Act in 1964. But we think of it‚ mainly as history. And that‚ according to Tim Wise‚ an anti-racism activist and American writer‚ is the biggest self-deception of the modern American world. Throughout an article posted on his own webpage
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AN ANALYSIS OF SECTION 195 OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE (Providing appeal to the court as remedy for denial of protest by local government treasurer) By Judge Teodoro C. Fernandez I. INTRODUCTION Autonomy of local government units is one of the fundamental state policies enshrined in the Constitution (1987 Constitution‚ Art. II‚ Sec. 25). Thus‚ the Constitution directed Congress to "to enact a local government code which shall (a) provide for a more responsive and accountable
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Taylor Waldrip 9/30/13 Analysis of The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter Theme: The Jiliting of Granny Weatherall is a story of a woman who has truly weathered all. It is a journey‚ based on denial and confusion‚ of a once bride-to-be‚ abandoned at the altar and forced into a life she forced herself to believe was happy. She refuses to accept the truth about her life and its hardships‚ always counting on tomorrow to give her the time she needs to handle such affairs. Devices:
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impression of a Wagner matinee is and Georgina’s sacrifice through her Exile from art and beauty 3. The dominant impression of the jilting of granny Weatherall is denial. Granny is in denial that she is dying‚ she is I denial that her illness is causing her confusion. She is in denial that George jilting her still plays a huge role in her attitude and demeanor and she is in denial to the fact that she treats Cornilia with such
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beyond their literal importance‚ and writers often use them to compact large ideas into simple words or phrases.” (SPC Blackboard) Authors Shirley Jackson (The Lottery)‚ Susan Glaspell (A Jury of Her Peers)‚ and Katherine Ann Porte (The Jilting of Granny Weatherall) all effectively use symbolism is their stories to convey a deeper meaning‚ the symbolism in their stories help connect you on a different level. In Jackson’s The Lottery‚ there are many instances where symbolism is used to represent
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