Today's Internet Research Articles

Role of Human Resources Information System (Hris) in Accelerating Organizational Effectiveness – It Companies Perspective

In the contemporary situation of modernization and globalization, organizations intensely depend upon mechanical headway and advancement in the field of Information Technology. Progressions in its field have opened up more up-todate roads for associations and gave an upper hand by utilizing creative and modified arrangements. It has become a fundamental piece of the authoritative working and all the offices rely upon coordinated frameworks for getting sorted out, putting away, recovering, and looking into information. Today Internet and mechanization have encouraged openness, dependability, and exactness of data; improved authoritative viability, and gave an initiative edge by applying innovation in different tasks. HRIS or Human Resource Information System is an altered programming arrangement intended for assisting associations with robotizing and deal with their HR, finance, the executives, and bookkeeping exercises. HRIS influences the presentation of individuals, cycles, and key hierarchical methodologies via mechanizing key HR measures like enrolment, preparing, labour arranging, execution evaluation, and occupation examination and plan. The examination on HRIS should be done to show how the precise course of action of HR rehearses causes associations to accomplish their objectives and adjusts itself to the business procedure that it seeks after. HRIS – its information, selection, helpfulness, and interaction should be passed on to individuals so they use the advantages of HRIS to the ideal level. The point of this investigation is the act of documenting and its refreshing in chosen programming organizations in India. Additionally, it will likewise recommend sorting out its acts of HR into sound and adjusted HRIS rehearses that will profit the association to lessen its desk work and the touchy issue - protection can be kept up to the office. Its openness can likewise be guaranteed with the assistance of the reception of such kind of framework. So essentially, such investigations are should have been done to advise the value regarding receiving innovation in the working environment and recommends how rapidly it very well may be embraced and changed to a standard method of practices.

ВЛИЯНИЕ ИНФОРМАЦИОННОГО ФАКТОРА НА СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ

This study aims to highlight the growing strategic importance that cyberspace is gaining in the dynamics of international politics. After land, sea, air, and outer space, cyberspace is the fifth dimension of conflict. The type of non-military weapons used to fight, as well as the subjects targeted, make civilian systems new centers of gravity to defend against an enemy that most often "operates in the shadows." The international scenario rmation revolution (which contributed to the "democratization of information"), is radically evolving from a unipolar (American-led) to an almost multipolar architecture. The Internet today is an indispensable communication and information network for various legal and illegal subjects of international relations. Social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Telegram) play a very important role in this process. The Internet can also allow manipulation or even destabilization of the international community with the spread of false information (fake news). It is also a field for intelligence activities. Finally, the Internet is becoming the field of a new form of confrontation. Thus, both states and private actors protect themselves from possible cyber attacks by developing cybersecurity. In anticipation of this, states are developing cyberspace strategies and military-digital capabilities. Key words: international relations, information, cyberspace, cybersecurity, territorial integrity, state, subjects of international relations, information warfare

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF IOT SWITCH WITH MANUAL OVERRIDE

Today internet is the widest platform used by humans which connects people to people, but various researches have been carried out to connect machines to internet on a cloud platform. These are collectively called as Internet of Things (IoT). IoT helps to control and monitor the machines in factory, but later it is also used in home automation to connect household electrical devices like fans and lights. Each device will have their own control medium to access them and monitor them which makes the user, a tedious process to track them. There arises a need of, connecting all the devices and operating them in a common platform. Accessing the main supply of the appliances and turning ON/OFF that supply will be a suitable solution to control any range of applications. Hence, smart switch is becoming more popular now- a-days. But, most of the smart switches replace manual switching and goes for complete software-based switching. This makes the user to rely on the software/application all the time to control the device, even though the user is near the device. In order to solve these problems, in the proposed method a smart switch which follows the manual toggling action of conventional rocking switches to turn them ON/OFF manually and also provide access through remote applications to turn ON/OFF them through a mobile application.

CP-CDN: Content Delivery Powered By Context and User Intelligence

In order to improve end users' Web access experiences, today's Internet content providers generally employ Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to provide material to end users. To comprehend reasons, methods, and amounts of CP-level intelligences may aid content distribution, we employ a measurement-based approach. The largest content provider in China, Tencent, constructed a CDN, which we first offer as a measurement study. Contrarily, CPCDN may leverage context intelligence—which captures how contents are constantly manipulated then synthesized in various circumstances —in order to optimise the user experience and service quality throughout content delivery since it is aware of the precise environment in which material is consumed. In this study, we use a measurement-based approach to reasons, methods, and amounts of CP-level information may aid content delivery in order to support the quick transition to CPCDN. We proactively replicate content based on interest groups based on crowd patterns so that users can access their desired content from nearby CPCDN servers. CPCDN is able to raise the level of both content delivery efficiency and user experience by using the potent user intelligence that captures how contents are constantly exchanged and disseminated across social networked users.

SEMI-FRAGILE WATERMARKING SCHEME FOR RELATIONAL DATABASE TAMPER DETECTION

Most of data over the Internet today is hosted on outsourced third-party servers which are not trusted. Sometimes data is to be distributed to other organizations or individuals for pre-agreed use. In both of these scenarios data is susceptible to malicious tampering so there is a need for some mechanism to verify database integrity. Moreover, the authentication process should be able to differentiate between valid updates and malicious modifications. In this paper, we present a novel semi-fragile watermarking scheme for relational database integrity verification. Besides detection and localization of database tampering, the proposed scheme allows modifications to the data that need periodic updates, without requiring re-watermarking. Watermark embedding is distortion free, as it is done by adjusting the text case of selected data values resulting in retention of semantic meaning of data. Additionally, group-based embedding ensures the localization of tampering up to group level. We implemented a proof of concept application of our watermarking technique. Theoretical analysis and experiments show that even a single value modification can be detected with very high probability besides detection of attacks like tuple insertion and tuple deletion.

Cyber-Pornography Addiction among Medical Students of Telangana

Introduction:- It is understood as an act of using cyber space to create, display, distribute, impart or publishpornography or obscene materials, especially materials depicting children engaged in sexual acts with adults.There are tons of materials which are available now at our fingertips with the advent of 4G network andsmart phones. Almost 50% of the websites exhibit pornographic material on the internet today. Pornographyis accessible to anyone and everyone. 9 out of 10 boys are exposed to some form of pornography before theage of 18 years whereas the average ratio is 6 out of 10 for girls. Objectives:-1. To identify the prevalenceof risk of cyber-pornography addiction amongst medical students. 2.To identify the type of risk presentamong the students. Methodology:-This study was conducted with the help of a pre-designed, pre-testedweb-based questionnaire based on Internet Sex Screening Test amongst the medical college students ofTelangana.Duration of the study: 1st January 2019 to29th February 2019 (2 months). Results: - In the presentstudy most of the study population (59.02%) was 3rd MBBS students, less study population from internees(4.39%). Males were 58.35% and females were 41.46%. Among Males 75 (36.58%) are under low risk,45 (21.95%) are at risk, Among Females 82 (40%)are under low risk, 3 (1.46%)are at risk which wasstatistically significant. Conclusion:- It is concluded that majority of the males and females came under lowrisk category but males were more under vulnerable category. So males showed higher risk of addiction topornography. Pornography is affecting the lives of the students. Recommendations:- Educating the massesabout the detrimental effects of cyber pornography at the levels of individual, family, society and the nation.Compulsory sex education during high school i.e. during the formative years of an adolescent.

Web 2.0 Technological Tools in Teaching and Learning

Fast emerging new technologies is taking everyone in its stride and no one is untouched with its influence. Access to technology and ability to use technology easily has become one of the important factors to outperform competitors. The biggest advantage that has been appreciated by each and every one is digitization. Digitization has made one’s life easy by providing services at one click of mouse. A digital wave is sweeping across India as well. Digitization has brought tremendous opportunities for education sector. It has increase connectivity of tutor and learner as they are connected virtually anytime and everywhere through technologies. Internet today has become the backbone of technology as various applications and technological benefits have been possible only with the help of internet and World Wide Web. Web 2.0 is a technology which has revolutionized and changed the whole education system. The paper gives an overview of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 as well as the technological tools of Web 2.0 which can be helpful in the process of teaching and learning.

Protecting the Internet of Vehicles Against Advanced Persistent Threats: A Bayesian Stackelberg Game

Connected vehicles are essential for the deployment of intelligent transportation services. However, the high level of connectivity in today's Internet of vehicles (IoV) and the extreme reliance on the data collected from the smart transportation infrastructure widen the space of security vulnerabilities, making the IoV a potential target for cyberattacks. This article investigates novel sophisticated ways to exploit the IoV and launch intelligent attacks on road traffic services by creating persistent impact and reducing detection chances. This article models the processes of attack and defense as a cybersecurity Stackelberg game leading to optimal mixed strategies for both the attackers and the IoV defense system, where the latter optimally deploys the available security resources within the transportation infrastructure to minimize the impact of attacks and improve their detection. The game is of Bayesian type and considers several types of data corruption attacks that occur according to a probability distribution that we determine based on a rigorous risk assessment approach. The results show that our game model and solution allow us to reduce the impact of advanced persistent threats compared to a uniform defense design that is indifferent to attackers' strategies and types. The solution could be integrated into the design of IoV intrusion detection systems to increase their robustness.

THE EFFECT OF PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING ON THE BRAND SWITCHING OF FAST MOVING CONSUMERS GOODS PRODUCTS DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC

This research aims to determine the effect of product knowledge and social media marketing on the brand switching of fast moving consumers goods (FMCG) products during the COVID-19 pandemic. The type of research is quantitative with the use of regression analysis techniques and SPSS analysis tools version 23. The number of respondents in this research are 100 FMCG users spread across five villages in Central Maluku Regency.
 Based on the research results, social media marketing has a negative effect on brand shifting, this is due to the more information received, the more selective consumers tend to be. The era of the internet today makes consumers more critical and think about the validity of information, especially related to health. Meanwhile, product knowledge is just the opposite. Product knowledge has a positive effect on brand switching. This is simply because product knowledge is more relevant and becomes a reference for shifting health product brands. People are increasingly educated and trusting brands that have a good reputation. A well-known brand is easy to gain the trust of the public or respondents.

Ultralow-Power Receivers: Overcoming Battery Limitations to Facilitate Self-Powered Operation

Fast forward to a world with 1 trillion wirelessly connected devices in which pervasive computing impacts every aspect of our lives. Now imagine that each of those devices operates on a battery that lasts an average of three years, which is very generous considering that most of today's Internet of Things (IoT) devices have batteries with much shorter lives. In that world, we would be changing 1 billion batteries per day just to maintain the network of devices. Setting aside for the moment the environmental impact of battery disposal at that scale, nobody wants to take on the battery maintenance problem. Today, this is what limits the mass adoption of IoT solutions. It is why factories have not installed monitors on their 10,000 assets and why shipping companies do not embed real-time tracking in every package label. When you examine the power consumption of IoT devices over their lifetime, most of the energy is used for wireless communication; of that electricity, a large amount is spent on network synchronization rather than transmitting data. This calls for better networking solutions to enable massive scales of devices and ultralow-power (ULP) radios to enable self-powered operation, eliminating the battery and, therefore, the maintenance problem.

Recognizing phishing websites based on a bayesian combiner

Phishing is a social engineering technique used to deceive users, which means trying to obtain confidential information such as username, password or bank account information. One of the most important challenges on the Internet today is the risk of phishing attack and Internet scams. These attacks cost the United States billions of dollars a year. Therefore, researchers have made great efforts to identify and combat such attacks. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the methods of identifying phishing websites. This research is applied in terms of its objectives and descriptive-analytical in nature. In this article, the classification approach is used to identify phishing websites. From a machine learning point of view, if a suitable strategy is used, the ensemble of votes of different classifiers can be used to increase the accuracy of classification. In the method proposed in this paper, three inherently different ensemble classifiers, called bagging, AdaBoost, and rotation forest are employed. In this method, the stacked generalization strategy is used as an ensemble strategy. A relatively new dataset is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The database was added to the UCI Database in 2015 and uses 30 features that appear to be appropriate for distinguishing phishing and non-phishing websites. The present study uses 10-fold-cross-validation method as an evaluation strategy. The numerical results indicate that the proposed method can be used as a promising method for detecting phishing websites. It is worth mentioning that in this method, an F-score of 96.3 is resulted, which is a good result in detecting phishing.

A Novel Pornographic Visual Content Classifier based on Sensitive Object Detection

With the increasing amount of pornography being uploaded on the Internet today, arises the need to detect and block such pornographic websites, especially in Eastern cultural countries. Studying pornographic images and videos, show that explicit sensitive objects are typically one of the main charac-teristics portraying the unique aspect of pornography content. This paper proposed a classification method on pornographic visual content, which involved detecting sensitive objects using object detection algorithms. Initially, an object detection model is used to identify sensitive objects on visual content. The detection results are then used as high-level features combined with two other high-level features including skin body and human presence information. These high-level features finally are fed into a fusion Support Vector Machine (SVM) model, thus draw the eventual decision. Based on 800 videos from the NDPI-800 dataset and the 50.000 manually collected images, the evaluation results show that our proposed approach achieved 94.06% and 94.88% in Accuracy respectively, which can be compared with the cutting-edge pornographic classification methods. In addition, a pornographic alerting and blocking extension is developed for Google Chrome to prove the proposed architecture’s effectiveness and capability. Working with 200 websites, the extension achieved an outstanding result, which is 99.50% Accuracy in classification.

Forensic Analysis of Tor Browser on Windows 10 and Android 10 Operating Systems

Smartphones and Internet have become prevalent in our society with various applications in businesses, education, healthcare, gaming, and research. One of the major issues with the Internet today is its lack of security since an eavesdropper can potentially intercept the communication. This has contributed towards an increased number of cyber-crime incidents, resulting in an increase in users’ consciousness about the security and privacy of their communication . One example is the shift towards using private browsers such as Tor. Tor is a well-recognized and widely used privacy browser based on The Onion Router network that provisions anonymity over the insecure Internet. This functionality of Tor has been a major hurdle in cybercrime investigations due to the complex nature of its anonymity. This paper investigates artifacts from the Tor privacy browser on the latest Windows 10 and Android 10 devices to determine potential areas where evidence can be found. We examine the registry, storage, and memory of Windows 10 devices and the memory, storage, logs, and Zram of Android 10 devices for three possible scenarios i.e. before, during, and after use of the Tor browser. Our results do not support the claims made by the Tor Project regarding user privacy and anonymity. We find that it is possible to retrieve significant details about a user’s browsing activities while the Tor browser is in use as well as after it is closed (on both operating systems). This paper also provides an investigative methodology for the acquisition and analysis of Tor browser artifacts from different areas of the targeted operating systems. Therefore, it can serve as a base to expand research in the forensic analysis of other privacy browsers and improve the efficiency of cybercrime investigations efficiency.

The Influence of Internet – Communication on Everyday Speech

The article deals with the problem of the reverse influence of the Internet and chat communication on the spoken language based on the "Language of scum" in the Russian-speaking Internet. Today, this problem is relevant, since the development of the Internet has contributed to the widespread use of slang among the younger generation. The Internet today is a source of information. But the speed and availability of communication between users made it possible to use the Internet not only as a cognitive tool, but also as a means of communication and entertainment. And virtual communication, which arose due to the rapid development of the network, gave rise to a special language - the language of virtual communication. The numerous chats, open forums and personal pages created on the network are the main ways of communication among young people. Over the years, a special language has developed in the programs - slang, the so-called language of Internet communication, in which users communicate with each other. And every day he actively penetrates into our daily life. This study is a kind of appeal not only for adolescents, but also for the adult population. I would like people to think about the fact that we need to protect our language and not succumb to the influence of slang when communicating on social networks. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the results of this study will be useful to students in order to preserve their native language.

A Novel Efficient Certificateless Signature Scheme for the Prevention of Content Poisoning Attack in Named Data Networking-Based Internet of Things

Recently, Named Data Networking (NDN) has emerged as a popular and active Internet architecture that addresses the issues of current host-centric communication. NDN is well suited for Internet of Things (IoT) which possesses massive applications that dominate the Internet today. It intends to provide named-based routing, in-networking caching, built-in mobility and multicast support as part of its design which leads to a substantial improvement in content delivery/retrieval. Though, this new architecture aches from some new challenges in terms of security. In this article, we seek our attention towards Content Poisoning Attack (CPA). The purpose of CPA is to inject poisoned content with an invalid signature into the NDN-based IoT networks. Unfortunately, none of the existing proposals work effectively when malicious attackers compromise the caches of NDN routers. To prevent this, we proposed a certificateless signature scheme for the preservation of CPA in NDN-based IoT networks. The proposed scheme is formally secure under the security hardness of Hyperelliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (HCDLP) with a security simulation/validation in “Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA).” Besides, the formal proof we also compared the designed scheme with some existing solutions to show the cost-efficiency in terms of communication overhead and computation cost. To conclude, a robust deployment on NDN-based IoT networks is shown.

ІНТЕРНЕТ-БАНКІНГ У СУЧАСНОМУ СВІТІ

The article considers the trends of banks' transition to online customer service systems and statistics of Internet banking users.The introduction of Internet technologies in the banking sector since the mid-90's has transformed the traditional banking system, changed the structure of banking markets and even the very essence of the bank.During the COVID-19 pandemic, the bank's resources were limited. Employees are overwhelmed with requests from customers, which increases waiting times. To optimize the work, banks can resort to intelligent automation of some processes and use the Internet banking service. After the coronavirus pandemic, which helped change the behavior of banking users, most of them understood the benefits of the Internet and mobile banking. 57% of customers prefer Internet banking after lockdown, because it saves them time, but the digital banking system is also profitable for banks, because when serving customers through Internet banking, the bank has lower costs: no need to pay rent for the premises, there is no need to maintain a large number of employees through the automation of services provided ...Internet banking systems are indispensable for tracking transactions with plastic cards – any withdrawal of funds from a card account is promptly reflected in account statements prepared by the systems, which also contributes to increased control by the client over their operations. In general, the world tends to increase the number of banks with Internet banking, most customers in European countries use this system due to its benefits. The introduction of digital banking is a necessity in modern the world because today Internet banking is one of the most progressive services.Neobanks benefit from traditional banks not only in terms of service quality, but also in other parameters. For example, the average cost of attracting one client for them is $ 1 – $ 38, and for traditional banks – is about $ 200. The cost-effectiveness ratio of traditional banks is 50–60%, but the new generation of banks is catching up with them with a rate of 46%. In digital banking is important to reduce the likelihood of errors in the processing of banking information and increasing the level of secrecy. The quality of this work often creates a position for the bank in the market. A virtual bank can serve a client located anywhere in the world. In the virtual space, the specific features that distinguish banking services from physical goods practically disappear. The nature of the banking services themselves and the factors that ensure their competitiveness in the market are changing.

Auditing static machine learning anti-Malware tools against metamorphic attacks

Malicious software is one of the most serious cyber threats on the Internet today. Traditional malware detection has proven unable to keep pace with the sheer number of malware because of their growing complexity, new attacks and variants. Most malware implement various metamorphic techniques in order to disguise themselves, therefore preventing successful analysis and thwarting the detection by signature-based anti-malware engines. During the past decade, there has been an increase in the research and deployment of anti-malware engines powered by machine learning, and in particular deep learning, due to their ability to handle huge volumes of malware and generalize to never-before-seen samples. However, there is little research about the vulnerability of these models to adversarial examples. To fill this gap, this paper presents an exhaustive evaluation of the state-of-the-art approaches for malware classification against common metamorphic attacks. Given the limitations found in deep learning approaches, we present a simple architecture that increases 14.95% the classification performance with respect to MalConv’s architecture. Furthermore, the use of the metamorphic techniques to augment the training set is investigated and results show that it significantly improves the classification of malware belonging to families with few samples.

Supporting Multimedia Services over A Token-Passing Bus Local Area Network.(Dept.E)

Besides data transactions such as web surfing and e-commerce, the Internet today has been experiencing growth in audio and video streaming with the emergence of multimedia tools. However, the existing network infrastructure (e.g., Ethernet) only offers a single best effort class of service without any guarantees on delay variation, packet losses or available bandwidth. This can adversely impact the end-to-end performance of multimedia applications. Accordingly, a different class of Media Access Control (MAC) protocols must be used to support multimedia services over the existing Local Area Networks (LANs) without seeking to ehange it [3]. The token-passing bus was introduced to avoid the non-determinism of Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) bus protocol as well as the complexities of active repeaters in the token ring [8]. This makes, token-passing bus MAC protocol is the best candidate to support multimedia traffic over Ethernet LANs [8]. In this paper, the capability of the token-passing bus LANs to provide multimedia services is explored and its performance under different multimedia traffic loads is evaluated using a simulation program.

Live Captioning for Live Lectures – An Initiative to Enhance Language Acquisition in Second Language Learners, through Mobile Learning

World is networked through internet today. There are various mobile Applications, which help people in many different ways, based on the purpose of the application. Due to the pandemic lockdown, now-a-days, the classes are conducted online, through modes like, video lectures and video conferencing. Apart from the forced school environment, one can create their own environment to study through online classes. Apart from the established online courses that already have study material and subtitles, the live classes for under graduate students, who begin to explore online education, get the first blow in understanding and educating themselves. Many students find it difficult to listen to lectures through video conferencing because of a cluster of students with different proficiency levels. In a classroom scenario, with the use of blackboard method or power-point presentation, the students somehow get the idea of the subject. That way, if not by listening to the teacher, visual aids help the students to grasp in a better fashion. The purpose of this study is to propose the development of a mobile application, to reduce the difficulties in listening lectures online. The application might act as a caption provider in the video lecture that helps the students to comprehend the subject better. This study is based on a survey taken among 100 undergraduate students from a particular institution in India, to enquire the hardships and hurdles of learning through online lectures. The result of the analysis provided the preference of captioned videos in video lectures for enhancing the purpose of online lectures. This study tries to prove the hardships of non-native speakers of English, while attending video lectures and providing a solution to the aforementioned, based on the survey, by implementing the idea of a mobile application to provide captions, during the live lecture.

Preventing time synchronization in NTP broadcast mode

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used by millions of hosts on the Internet today to synchronize their clocks. The clock synchronization is necessary for many network applications to function correctly. An unsynchronized clock may lead to the failure of various core Internet services including DNS and RPKI based interdomain routing and opens the path for more sophisticated attacks. In this paper, we describe a new attack that can prevent a client configured in NTP broadcast mode from synchronizing its clock with the server. We test the attack in real networks and show that it is effective in both authenticated and unauthenticated broadcast/multicast modes of NTP. We also perform experiments to measure the overall attack surface by scanning the entire IPv4 address space and show that the NTP broadcast mode is being used in the wild by several low stratum (highly accurate) hosts. We also suggest a few countermeasures to mitigate the proposed attack.