Private Email Research Articles

Analysis and Comparison of Social Media Applications Using Forensic Software on Mobile Devices

With the integration of mobile systems into daily life, social media applications used especially on Android and iOS platforms contain a significant amount of sensitive information. Social media applications on mobile systems have huge personal and sensitive content. Therefore, it is important to design effective techniques for forensic analysis of social media applications and to detect personal data. In this research, three different paid mobile forensic software and 4 different brands and models of smartphones with different operating systems were used and analyzed. The study shows that private messages, e-mails, time information, shared data, location and time information, and other personal data can be obtained by a forensic expert who performs an examination, and it is seen that one software can access the deleted data, but another software cannot access it. In proportion to the technology used in today’s world, mobile forensics incidents are increasing day by day, and a competitive environment is created among the software used to illuminate these incidents. With this competition, software companies dealing with forensic informatics are trying to obtain different data to illuminate forensic events that may occur due to the active use of social media accounts with the developing technology, and software that does not meet the needs in the face of this situation remains in the background. The criminal elements in the investigation areas of mobile forensics differ daily, and the scope of crimes in the virtual environment is expanding with the developing technology. Therefore, mobile forensic analysis applications should be successful in social media applications other than standard data.

Students' impression management and self-presentation behaviours via online educational platforms: An archival review

Across global higher education contexts, students and staff are communicating online. Online communication is facilitated by the online disinhibition effect (reduction of nonverbal cues eases communication) and in turn this may make online self-presentation (behaviours used to present a desired version of the self) easier. Students may be utilising online self-presentation techniques to facilitate online communication with staff. We know that online self-presentation techniques can be advantageous, but where inappropriate they may be detrimental to the student-staff relationship. This study explores whether students are using self-presentation techniques when they communicate online with staff via an archival review of both private (e-mail messages) and public (Moodle forum posts) online educational environments. Through a deductive thematic analysis we identify that students are indeed using online self-presentation techniques but that these vary depending on whether the online educational environment is private or public. This is the first study to explore this topic via an archival review and we encourage future research to consider the role of online self-presentation techniques within student-staff communication.

Perceptions and concerns of emergency medicine practitioners about artificial intelligence in emergency triage management during the pandemic: a national survey-based study.

There have been continuous discussions over the ethics of using AI in healthcare. We sought to identify the ethical issues and viewpoints of Turkish emergency care doctors about the use of AI during epidemic triage. Ten emergency specialists were initially enlisted for this project, and their responses to open-ended questions about the ethical issues surrounding AI in the emergency room provided valuable information. A 15-question survey was created based on their input and was refined through a pilot test with 15 emergency specialty doctors. Following that, the updated survey was sent to emergency specialists via email, social media, and private email distribution. 167 emergency medicine specialists participated in the study, with an average age of 38.22 years and 6.79 years of professional experience. The majority agreed that AI could benefit patients (54.50%) and healthcare professionals (70.06%) in emergency department triage during pandemics. Regarding responsibility, 63.47% believed in shared responsibility between emergency medicine specialists and AI manufacturers/programmers for complications. Additionally, 79.04% of participants agreed that the responsibility for complications in AI applications varies depending on the nature of the complication. Concerns about privacy were expressed by 20.36% regarding deep learning-based applications, while 61.68% believed that anonymity protected privacy. Additionally, 70.66% of participants believed that AI systems would be as sensitive as humans in terms of non-discrimination. The potential advantages of deploying AI programs in emergency department triage during pandemics for patients and healthcare providers were acknowledged by emergency medicine doctors in Turkey. Nevertheless, they expressed notable ethical concerns related to the responsibility and accountability aspects of utilizing AI systems in this context.

Spam Spoiler for Public and Private E-Mail Services

Abstract: In recent years, cyber security incidents have occurred frequently. In most of these incidents, attackers have used different types of spam email as a knock-on to successfully invade government systems, well-known companies, and websites of politicians and social organizations in many countries. The detection of spam mail from big email data has been paid public attention. However, the camouflage technology of spam mail is becoming more and more complex, and the existing detection methods are unable to confront the increasingly complex deception methods and the growing number of emails. In this project, we proposed to design a novel efficient approach named Spam Spoiler for big email data classification into four different classes: Normal, Fraudulent, Harassment, and Suspicious E-mails by using LSTM-based GRU. The new method includes two important stages, the sample expansion stage and the testing stage under sufficient samples. This project the LSTM-based GRU efficiently captures meaningful information from E-mails that can be used for forensic analysis as evidence. Experimental results revealed that Spam Spoiler performed better than existing ML algorithms and achieved a classification accuracy of 98% using the novel technique of LSTM with recurrent gradient units. As different types of topics are discussed in E-mail content analysis. Spam Spoiler effectively outperforms existing methods while keeping the classification process robust and reliable.

Management of e-mails by the Health Executive: The Case of the Executive Trainer at the Avicenne-Jean Verdier Nursing Training Institute

The Covid-19 health crisis, with containment measures that led to telecommuting, highlighted an activity that is not often considered in the workplace: email management. It has become an inescapable activity, which can be characterized as reviewing unprocessed e-mail and deciding what to do with it. E-mail management is an activity in its own right and is part of the activities of the health executive training health professionals in his missions. In carrying out their tasks, health professionals’ trainers have various correspondents with whom they have a hierarchical and/or functional relationship. In fact, he exchanges electronic messages with the hierarchy, his colleagues and with students. With the increase in telecommuting, it is difficult for the health professional trainer to differentiate between private and professional emails.

Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel

Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel

The Developments of the Digital Technologies in the Accounting Scientific Research in the Light of the Corona Pandemic - An Exploratory Study in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

This study aims at identifying the uses of the digital technologies in the field of scientific research in general and the accounting scientific research; the study also has illustrated the importance of these technologies in developing the accounting scientific research and enhancing its efficiency; in addition, it has identified a set of the obstacles which the researchers may face while using the digital technologies. Inductive and descriptive analytical analyses have been used; previous studies touching upon the digital technologies in the field of scientific research have been examined in order to develop the theoretical framework and design the questionnaire; the researcher has used one of technical means; the questionnaire has been prepared by Google Drive Program and distributed through private or university e-mail technologies and WhatsApp groups in academic context placed in educational forums. The study has concluded that there are justifications and reasons such as closures during the Corona pandemic which encourage the use of the digital technologies in the accounting scientific research. Furthermore, there are various aspects of the use of the digital technologies in the field of accounting scientific research in obtaining and exchanging the data; in addition, the study has found that the digital technologies play an important role in developing the accounting scientific research and achieve various advantages while using these technologies in the accounting scientific research. However, the researcher in the accounting scientific field faces various obstacles which limit the use of the digital technologies in the accounting scientific research such as a lack of knowledge of the uses of the digital technologies, as well as a lack of trust in information exchanged by these technologies and a high cost of subscription of some scientific websites (i.e research and dissertation repositories). Finally, the study has concluded that scientific research curriculum shall be developed in order to include the digital technologies used in the scientific research and the mechanism of their use.

User-centred multimodal authentication: securing handheld mobile devices using gaze and touch input

ABSTRACT Handheld mobile devices store a plethora of sensitive data, such as private emails, personal messages, photos, and location data. Authentication is essential to protect access to sensitive data. However, the majority of mobile devices are currently secured by singlemodal authentication schemes which are vulnerable to shoulder surfing, smudge attacks, and thermal attacks. While some authentication schemes protect against one of these attacks, only few schemes address all three of them. We propose multimodal authentication where touch and gaze input are combined to resist shoulder surfing, as well as smudge and thermal attacks. Based on a series of previously published works where we studied the usability of several user-centred multimodal authentication designs and their security against multiple threat models, we provide a comprehensive overview of multimodal authentication on handheld mobile devices. We further present guidelines on how to leverage multiple input modalities for enhancing the usability and security of user authentication on mobile devices.

Memoriam

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Perancangan Aplikasi Sistem Informasi Geotrack Administrasi Surat Berbasis Website

This research was conducted to find out how the management process that covers sending sample letters and follow-up letter dispositions at PT Aneka Tambang Tbk's work unit, Geomin Unit to improve the effectiveness of inter-work unit coordination. This research is also motivated by the problem of an ineffective system that monitors the progress of sample analysis. Because in its development, coordination between the laboratory and the team is carried out not computerized. Coordination is not computerized by contacting the relevant parties via private chat, telephone or email. In designing this application using the Waterfall method. The programming languages are HTML and PHP. For Framework using Bootstrap, and for the database using MySQL. Supporting applications used are XAMPP, Sublime Text, and PhpMyAdmin. The final result of this research is a website-based monitoring and tracking application for mail management. It can be concluded that the design of this application provides many benefits in the process of managing letter data, especially in PT Aneka Tambang Tbk, Geomin Unit.

Why Do Students Become Cyberbullies? Elucidating the Contributions of Specific Developmental Risks to Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is currently considered as a widespread problem among children and adolescents; in particular, the risks of cyberbullying have recently been examined. The empirical analyses of the present work are based on data from a German longitudinal study. The self-reports of adolescents from Dortmund and Nuremberg on both cyberbullying and individual and contextual characteristics were taken into account. The two-wave panel encompasses N = 871 adolescents (44.5% male); the average age was M = 15.1 years (SD = 0.83) at t1. Data on cyberbullying refer to sending insults or threats to others via the Internet, spreading rumours or talking badly about others via the Internet, and sending private e-mails, photos or similar from others in order to embarrass or ridicule the persons concerned. Other characteristics relate to single aspects of psychopathy (egocentric egotism, low self-control, empathy deficits), acceptance of violence, and delinquent peers. The path analytical findings illustrate the predictive relationships between both individual and contextual risks and cyberbullying in adolescence. The empirical results are discussed, among others, from the perspective of developmental and life-course criminology.

Editorial advisory board virtual meetings

Editorial advisory board virtual meetings

Why New Realities Demand New Rights: The Coming Good Society by William F. Schulz & Sushma Raman

Reviewed by: Why New Realities Demand New Rights: The Coming Good Society by William F. Schulz & Sushma Raman Howard Tolley Jr. (bio) William F. Schulz & Sushma Raman, Why New Realities Demand New Rights: The Coming Good Society ( Harvard University Press, 2020), ISBN 978067424577, 314 pages. The Coming Good Society's co-authors address new realities and prospective rights involving animal species, robots with artificial intelligence, and Nature as well as twenty-first century threats necessitating enhanced human rights protection concerning gender equality, privacy, genetic manipulation, and political corruption. William Schulz, the [End Page 214] former Director of Amnesty International, and Sushma Raman, Executive Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy fully appreciate the dangers posed by recent attacks on previously recognized, increasingly precarious human rights. They nevertheless insist that without ongoing consideration of prospective new rights for non-humans, then established rights may wither and a truly good society cannot be realized. "[T]his book is designed less to predict than to provoke."1 In explaining why rights change, the authors provide a basic theoretical framework that grounds universal rights in international standard setting rather than religion or natural law. Since UN adoption of the Universal Declaration of human Rights, essential norms have steadily expanded, making clear that rights are fluid, social constructs that can also be eroded. "Rights are 'transactional' … not static; … '[they] contain the seeds for their own expansion.'"2 As the less powerful become informed and make fresh demands against those with power to affect their lives, new rights emerge. Adults advanced new rights for children, "moral patients" who could not make claims on their own. Similarly animals, robots and trees need human representatives to claim legal standing for the assertion of new rights. A revolutionary cultural change in attitudes toward gays and lesbians resulted in extraordinarily swift legal recognition in the West for same sex marriage and protection from discrimination in the workplace. The authors note the need for enhanced rights for transgender or intersex individuals including teens' access to puberty suppressing drugs while deferring surgery until competent.3 Commodified tracking devices have stripped consumers of privacy in their purchase preferences, but the consequences go far beyond irritating pop up ads. Culturally biased algorithms perpetuate racial inequities in lending, a credit score, and more importantly dubious criminal profiles, a threat score, applied by law enforcement agencies. India has pioneered in developing a national digital identity program "Aadhaar." China developed a biometric identity base equally valuable to identify individual needs for food, education, and housing as well as to control free thinkers and their ability to organize collective action. Medusa "helps governments … gather information at rapid speed on private emails, chats, social media, and browsing histories."4 The authors recognized the need for government use of private medical records to contain the Ebola epidemic; the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated that contact tracing trumps privacy rights. The growing abuse of technological surveillance nevertheless threatens personal dignity that must be defended with vigilant efforts to maintain the optimum balance between security and privacy. Biomedical advances similarly provide valuable tools with the potential for egregious misuse. DNA databanks successfully used to confirm guilt or innocence of accused felons also threaten to "magnify societal disparities" between citizens providing government agencies with a genetic map "which includes [End Page 215] … their ancestry, their immediate and extended relatives, their current medical condition and propensity for future diseases, and even 'behavioral tendencies and sexual orientation.'"5 CRISPR, DNA gene editing of an egg or sperm that can prevent disease, also enables the wealthy to make irrevocable decisions about their newborn. Bioscientists have also experimented with synthetic embryos (SHEEF) that develop human organs. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World vision of an artificially created super caste appears increasingly within reach. When advocating for an expanded vision of rights to include animals, robots, and trees Schulz and Raman succeeded in provoking this reviewer to reconsider long held views, to reflect on how man made machines could possibly be entitled to rights, and to appreciate more fully the need to protect plant and animal life demonstrating extraordinary super human capabilities. The authors provide a three part framework clarifying how...

Predictors of psychological distress among the public in Oman amid coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a cross-sectional analytical study

ABSTRACT Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global, virulent pandemic disease that emerged in December 2019, with both short- and long-term psychological repercussions being inevitable. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and predictors of psychological distress, defined by the presence of either depression or anxiety, among the public in Oman during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a web-based, cross-sectional study conducted using governmental and private institutional e-mail systems and social media platforms. Anxiety and depression were assessed using both the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the independent predictors. There were a total of 1538 participants in this study (75% female). The prevalence of psychological distress was 30%. Being female, having financial instability, being treated for mental illness and self-medication for coping with stress were independent predictors of psychological distress among the study sample (Odds ratio [OR] = 1.69, confidence interval [CI] = 1.24–2.29; OR = 2.05, CI = 1.54–2.74; OR = 5.35, CI = 3.50–8.18; OR = 7.23, CI = 3.06–17.09, respectively). The results from this study will help public health officials in Oman to plan for and mitigate psychological repercussions of the current and future pandemics.

Providing Email Privacy by Preventing Webmail from Loading Malicious XSS Payloads

With the development of internet technology, email has become the formal communication method in modern society. Email often contains a large amount of personal privacy information, possible business agreements, and sensitive attachments, which make emails a good target for hackers. One of the most common attack method used by hackers is email XSS (Cross-site scripting). Through exploiting XSS vulnerabilities, hackers can steal identities, logging into the victim’s mailbox and stealing content directly. Therefore, this paper proposes an email XSS detection model based on deep learning technology, which can identify whether the XSS payload is carried in the email or not. Firstly, the model could extract the Sender, Receiver, Subject, Content, Attachment field information from the original email. Secondly, the email XSS corpus is formed after data processing. The Word2Vec algorithm is introduced to train the corpus and extract features for each email sample. Finally, the model uses the Bidirectional-RNN algorithm and Attention mechanism to train the email XSS detection model. In the experiment, the AUC (area under curve) value of the Bidirectional-RNN model reached 0.9979. When the Attention mechanism was added, the accuracy upper limit of the Bidirectional-RNN model was raised to 0.9936, and the loss value was reduced to 0.03.

The Use of Collaborative Assignment in Online Learning Environments: The Case of Higher Education

Many studies investigated the use of collaboration at conventional teaching environment in different educational levels. The present study examines students’ behavior during a collaborative assignment in an online learning environment in higher education. Data were collected by graduate students who were attending a course at a distance learning master degree program in Special Education. The developed group dynamics and students’ beliefs about their role during the activity were “revealed” by their reactions to the discussion forum, their private e-mails to the instructor, their activity at the platform and their contribution on the assignment, for which the wiki tool was used. Results indicated that although students were at the same time in-service or pre-service teachers at primary and secondary education and they were expected to implement group work at their teaching, they had low self-efficacy beliefs in using it as students in online learning environment. Their major difficulties were related with their fear about possible negative consequences concerning their marks due to other members’ behavior and the lack of experiences. Suggestions on how the group work and the collaborative assignment can be integrated more effectively in an online learning environment in higher education courses are discussed

Sender-controlled private email Electronic privacy with EPRIVO

Sender-controlled private email Electronic privacy with EPRIVO

Discursive framing in private and public communication by pro-nuclear corporate, political and regulatory actors following the Fukushima disaster

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine a case of companies cooperating with the State to prevent a public controversy over nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster and achieve mutually beneficial policy outcomes. It analyses the private and public communication of pro-nuclear corporate, political and regulatory actors.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the political economy theory, the study examines how actors mobilised power by accessing an existing social network to agree a joint public communication strategy in order to ensure public support for the continuation of nuclear power generation in the UK. It traces discursive frames from their inception in private communication to their reproduction in public communication and their dissemination via the media.FindingsThe study provides evidence of pro-nuclear actors cooperating behind the scenes to achieve consistent public pro-nuclear messaging. It finds evidence of four discursive frames: avoiding knee-jerk reactions, lessons learned, safety and nuclear renaissance. In combination, they guide audiences’ evaluation of the consequences of the Fukushima disaster for the UK in favour of continuing the commercial use of nuclear energy.Originality/valueThe private e-mail exchange between pro-nuclear actors presents a unique opportunity to examine the mobilisation of less visible forms of power in the form of agenda setting (manipulation) and discursive framing (domination) in order to influence policy outcomes and shape public opinion on nuclear energy. This is problematic because it constitutes a lack of transparency and accountability on part of the State with respect to policy outcomes and restricts the civic space by curtailing the articulation of alternative interests and voices.

Privacy in Social Media Friendships With Direct Supervisors: A Psychological Contract Perspective

Social media in modern companies can connect workers with their supervisors in myriad ways via multiple platforms. This study analyzes the perceived relationships between workers and their supervisors using the theoretical framework of psychological contract violation (PCV). The role of social media in the workplace in terms of privacy and trust between workers and their supervisors and workers’ organizational commitment was analyzed. Demographic information, communication channels (platforms), and the source of the social media relationship request were also considered. An online survey of full- and part-time employees yielded a diverse sample of 327 participants. This social media privacy research is consistent with previous literature on e-mail privacy. Both social media privacy and PCV influenced perceptions of (supervisor) trust. Additionally, PCV and trust influenced perceptions of affective organizational commitment. Implications of the results are discussed.

Health problems among IT professionals in Chennai city, Tamil Nadu

Background: Increasing technological advantage lead to the higher health disadvantages to IT professionals who spent most of the time working in front of the computer. They are experiencing many neural, visual and musculoskeletal ailments. The present study was done with the aim to limelight the health issues among IT employees in IT Park, Chennai.Methods: This cross-sectional quantitative survey related to health issues among IT professionals was done on 417 employees of Chennai IT Park during the period from January 2018 to May 2018. The predesigned questionnaire included socio-demographic and health related issues. It was sent to the employees through various media including Facebook messenger, LinkedIn private messaging and email. The data was analyzed and presented in number and percentages and the related associations were analysed by Chi square test.Results: The prevalence of pain in eye was the major visual problem noticed in 157 (38%) patients and the rate of incidence was similar in both males and females. About 50% of the participants had pain/stiffness in lower back. Feeling nervous ness is the related stress condition experienced by the respondents (49%). Other health correlated issues noticed among the participants was headache (40%). The prevalence rate of these factors was higher in males compared to females.Conclusions: The study concluded that IT professionals face several health issues in terms of visual, musculoskeletal and stress problems in Chennai IT Park.