Personal Blog & Electronic Commerce

wah time goes by very fast…. time is ticking… finals on the way….why no one is updating their blog le? Busy with your revision or still playing games/sleeping? hehe

So, this is the week where we are going to have our finals. I believe that some of my classmate still takes it lightly and still playing games or sleep the whole day at home. For me, I am starting my revision for both of the subjects. For those who still didn’t start their revision please start your revision now! Wake up, boys and girls. By the way, I am lack of ideas on what to post on the blog?!

So, today is the due date for the investment group assignment. Now is 1.38 am and going to bed soon after completing my part for the assignment and also for the tutorial 6 part B but unfortunately is have to keep track of my member progess and complete the question for the Bursa Malaysia (still along way to go sienz…when will this gonna over?! It is like endless …..). Today I could have not go to college but I have to accompany my group members  since I am worried that they did’t know how to do so I have no choice but to go. After 7 pm, I will have to only concentrate for my finals only since the due date was today at 7pm. OK! Got to sleep! Oyasuminasai (Good night in Japanese).

The corporate portal that I am going to describe is Boeing Company.

The reason I chose the Boeing Company is that Boeing is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William E. Boeing. Its international headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Boeing is the largest global aircraft manufacturer by revenue, the largest by orders and deliveries, and the second-largest aerospace and defense contractor in the world.

Boeing has long been one of the world’s largest civil aircraft companies. In 2006, it took 55% of global commercial aircraft orders for the first time since 2000. It is the largest exporter in the United States. Boeing’s stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

There are many companies that are collaborate with Boeing and one of them are Exostar which was created to leverage the power of the internet technologies and network-centric models to enable secure, efficient collaboration across enterprise domains.

Boeing collaborate with Exostar to provide software to supportits supply chain coordination challenges. The Exostar supply chain management solution enables all suppliers access to real-time demand, supply, and logistics information so that crucial components and systems arrive at Boeing’s production facilities just in time for assembly over a 3- day period. The Exostar solution includes the following functionalities: planning and scheduling; order placement and tracking purchase order changes; exchanging shipping information; managing inventory consumption across suppliers; managing returns; and providing a consolidated view of all activities in the manufacturing process. Business process exceptions can also be monitored across partners, allowing for informed evaluationof the impacts of these exceptions to take place across affected parties.

Besides that, Boeing also collaborate with Dreamliner and IBM. For more information on these, you may refer to the text book (pg 305,306) or wikipedia.com

In a blink of an eye, semester 3 is going to an end although it lasted for 7 weeks. Next week we will have our finals. Wednesday is Electronic Commerce and Thursday is Introduction to Investment. I have to start preparing for my finals now asap since I didn’t do well in my mid-term for both subjects. About investment paper I didn’t really need to worry but for e-commerce, i feel kind a little worry since this is going to be my first time taking an open book exam. There will be lots of revision and 1 more assignment of investment to be done.It going to be a rough and tiring week ……

Gonna become this for these 2 weeks…haha

As usual for most of the subjects that we are taking, we have to do a group assignment. Basically, overall I kinda dislike doing assignment in a group because I have to keep track of the work done by the group members and sometimes the group does their work in a fast pace and some even does their work last minute. Some members sometimes become a free loader when doing the group assignment which happens to me before (name not mentioned…) 

I like to do individual assignment mainly because of these 2 reasons that is I can do my work at my own pace and there are no slacker or you might say free loader that take credits of your own work. But the only weakness is that there are limited resources and ideas to use when you do individual assignment.

For this group assignment for investment my group members are basically okay for now. Hope it will be done asap and have a good quality.

Cybercrime is a criminal activity in which the computer or network is an essential part of the crime.

Why can’t cybercrimes or cybercriminals be stopped?

There are many reason why cybercrimes or cybercriminals can’t be stopped and I will only focus on the most important reason is that online shoppers did not take necessary precautions to avoid themselves from being a victim. Fraud protection that is provided by credit card issuers is heavily relied by some shoppers who ignore the risk of indentity theft. Some people respond to phishing, making it profitable that makes phishing rampant. Users exposed too much of themselves online by using debit card on online gambling sites or even revealing themselves in online communities ( Friendster, My Space, Facebook and etc.) while phising gets most of the media attention. Identity theft or user’s PCs are infected with malware converting them into zombies computers (zombies) which are used for launching attacks or sending e-mail spam happens when the spammers,hackers or other criminals use the personal information that are posted in these sites. Majority of the spam is relayed by zombies because by using the PCs of others, it helps the spammers to avoid detection and save bandwidth cost.

Discuss the possible threats to identity theft.

(a) Financial identity theft

Identity theft is a catch-all term for crimes involving illegal usage of another individual’s identity. The consequence of having one’s identity stolen is that the victim whose identity was stolen will have a higher chance of being burdened with heavy debts. For instance, someone whose indentity was stolen might received a letter from bank or even worst warning from loan sharks stating that they have borrow a large amount of loan from them and wants him/her to repay the loan.

(b) Identity cloning and concealment

In this situation, a criminal acquires personal identifiers, and then impersonates someone for concealment from authorities. This may be done by a person who wants to avoid arrest for crimes, by a person who is working illegally in a foreign country, or by a person who is hiding from creditors or other individuals. Unlike credit-dependent financial crimes, these crimes can be non self-revealing, continuing for an indeterminate amount of time without being detected.

(c) Criminal identity theft

A criminal identifies himself to police as another individual when they are caught commiting an offence or illegal activities. In some cases, the criminal will obtain a state issued ID using stolen documents or personal information belonging to another person, or they might simply use a fake ID and when the criminal is arrested for a crime, they present the ID to authorities, who place charges under the identity theft victim’s name and release the criminal. When the criminal fails to appear for his court hearing, a warrant would be issued under the assumed name. The victim might learn of the incident if the state suspends their own drivers license, or through a background check performed for employment or other purposes, or in rare cases could be arrested when stopped for a minor traffic violation. It can be difficult for a criminal identity theft victim to clear their record.

How do we prevent such attack?

To prevent such attack is that one must not reveal too much of their personal details online. They must learn to know how to remain anonymous when they are online. They should not input their personal details including credit card and IC number in any web sites that seems untrustworthy. It is to do so is when there are https in the web sites address, a lock appears either above or below the window and also a trustworthy sites with a tick inside a green circle.

Besides that, they may make use of the firewalls which avoid something like viruses and spam from entering your computer. Firewalls is a single point between two or more networks where all traffic must pass (choke point) and a device that authenticats, contols and logs all traffic. Try not to download anything from a suspicious web sites since it may contain spyware or viruses because no matter how good your firewall is, if you still allows the web site to enter your computer although the firewall stated that it may be dangerous to download the file, you will still infected with spyware and etc which will lead to indentity theft since the hackers will be able to connect to your PC and gains control of it and able to view or access your files, running programs on your PC.

Today I just got back my mid-term investment results and it didn’t come out what I expected and the worst it is below what I expected the results would be. In order to prevent further losses, I had to score well for my blog (e-commerce) , individual and group assignment (investment) and finally finals for both papers. Today, when I was in the college, the college employees called us to evacuate the buliding. That the 3rd time since I entered the college. The first time was last year where I really can feel the building was shaking and the 2nd time was last week. I cant feel the building shaking during the 2nd time and also today, but I don’t no why they insist to evacuate the building and that make me unhappy because I was in the middle doing my work and have to stop half way. zzzz…

Yesterday about the case study based quiz, I have scored 17/20 this time but that fine since my first time result was 19/20. I not sure why though since I done well in this quiz but my mid-term … zzz…

Today during class, Ms Saleena says that there will be a replacement class at the noon and the announcement are posted in BB6 already. I didnt know since this few days I rarely login to BB6. So, I have to stay back for the replacement class.

Tomorrow, it gonna be a busy day since I have to spend some time doing the common blog about the RFID, cybertheif and the Zara case study.

I will be answering this tutorial question on the zara’s case study as soon as possible since I am quite busy these days due to the investment group assignment. Sorry for any delays.