The Top 10 Kinds of Cybercriminals

The digital era has its own cast of evil characters, and while they may not have a pirate's swagger or a train robber's dash, they certainly do pose a challenge to people who would like to keep the cyberworld a safe place for entertainment, information and business.

So who are this era's most notorious hombres? Here's our "wanted list":

1. Malware Authors: These are the guys who write and distribute viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other bits of digital nastiness. They force people and businesses to spend huge sums of money on anti-malware technologies that rob systems of their power and performance. Malware authors are the scum of the earth — but you already knew that.
2. Phishers: Your bank account is about to expire and you must immediately update your information. Not really: It's just another low-life phisher trying to steal your personal information and, most likely, your identity, by directing you to a bogus Web site. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, an association of retailers and financial institutions focused on eliminating Web-based fraud, says it finds about 20,000 to 30,000 unique phishing Web sites each month
3. Hoaxsters: Get any emails from Nigeria lately? How about an "urgent message" from a British lord? An overseas job offer, perhaps? In all of these cases, you were probably pitched some type of funds- transfer deal. But, as too many people have already learned, the only money that's ever transferred in these schemes is from the victim to the hoaxster.
4. Scammers: Your email inbox is probably full of scammers' handiwork, including offers for discount pharmaceuticals, time-shares, health foods, gadgets and the like. Send these guys your credit-card number — or, worse yet, cash — and all you'll receive in return is angst.
5. Online Loan Sharks: A six-figure loan with no collateral or income verification? Sure. And would you like some whipped cream and a cherry on top of that, too? Unlike scammers, online loan sharks promise to send you money. Unfortunately, the cyberbandit will ask for an up-front fee to "process the application," and that's the only money that will ever change hands.
6. Spammers: These guys are criminals in the sense that they steal your time. Unlike phishers, hoaxsters and other email abusers that intend to separate you from your personal information and/or money, spammers flood your email inbox with ads (for both legitimate and illegitimate products), political diatribes, jokes, dire warnings of supposedly pending laws and other gibberish. Spammers may not be the most dangerous cybercriminals, but they are certainly among the most annoying. Spammers also inflict a real financial cost by draining network bandwidth and forcing service providers, enterprises and many individual users to install expensive and often imperfect anti-spam technologies.
7. Auction Fraudsters: You were overjoyed when you won that Louis XVI gold clock on eBay. The euphoria subsided, however, when the clock arrived. The timepiece hardly resembled its online photo, looking more like an object that might grace the boardwalk at Coney Island than the Palace of Versailles. Oh well, at least you received something, which is more than many victims of auction fraudsters can claim.
8. Bogus Prize Promoters: "Congratulations, you've won the Fredonia National Lottery." All you've really won, of course, is a chance to be hung up and fleeced as the "lottery officials" engage you in a complex scheme involving up-front fees and bogus checks.
9. Media Pirates: Who needs iTunes when you can just swipe a song or video off of LimeWire or another P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing service? Nobody gets hurt, right? Well, nobody but the people who worked hard to create the media. Your conscience might take a beating, too.
10. Social Parasites: Social-networking sites, instant-messaging networks, online dating services and Web classifieds are full of them: people who pretend to be someone they're not. Some of these characters target naive and vulnerable people to swindle them out of their money. Other parasites impersonate people, such as celebrities, in a sad attempt to smear their reputation or grab a small piece of glory. In either case, social parasites are a scourge of Internet society

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How to Control Your Class

How to Control Your Class

Even the most skilled teachers will have days when they lose control of their classroom. All it takes is a single rowdy kid and before you know it, you're sitting at your desk unsure of how to regain the control you had ten minutes ago.How do you take control of your class back from this kid? Here are a few suggestions to help you out

1. Use your voice.

This doesn't mean that you have to yell. There are a great many teachers who think that the best way to control a class is to make sure that their voice is always the loudest. In many cases, however, it is the quietest voice that gets the most respect. This doesn't mean whispering, it means that you tell your class simply, in a calm voice or even a lowered pitch, that you will not tolerate the continued misbehavior. No matter what age your students might be, they still need to hear that what they are doing is unacceptable.

2. Take action

The idle threat is useless. It is the threat that they know you will carry out that carries the most weight. Younger kids react strongly to public discipline names being put on the board, having to sit outside of the class during story time. The punishment itself does not have to be harsh having them sit on a chair next to your desk at the front of the room for ten minutes is hardly corporal punishment but it is public. Older students, however, sometimes need the larger punishments detention, sent to the office, disciplinary meetings with parents. Asking a senior to sit outside of the classroom won't carry the same weight that it will with a child in the second grade.

3. Resist the urge to react.

Students, no matter how old they are, act out because they want to see your reaction. When you react to what they are doing, they feel rewarded. Instead, continue with your class's lesson as you planned. Eventually even the positive attention the student has been receiving from his/her peers will go away when they see that you aren't going to do anything about it and they will want to get back to work. If you allow yourself to show anger or frustration then the behavior could grow worse. Take deep breaths and keep your cool. These might seem like very basic ideas for class control, but many teachers forget about them when faced with a classroom full of unruly students who refuse to give the teacher the respect that she/he deserves. Sometimes all you need is to take a moment to let the class act out and they'll calm themselves down. Other times you'll have to put every student's name on the board. Every class is different! Take your time. You'll figure out which methods work best for you and your class.

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