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Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing

Criminals use web servers to host phishing websites that impersonate financial institutions, to send out email spam, to distribute malware, and for many other illegal activities. To reduce costs, and to avoid being traced, the criminals often compromise legitimate systems to host their sites. Extra files - web pages or...

Tags: Harvard University, Shopping Cart, Web Site, Phishing, Web Site Development, Cyberthreats, Web Technology, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications

White papers 2009-02-25

IBM and Harvard applying tech grid ideas to solar grid research project

The grid computing team at IBM is teaming up with researchers at Harvard University to create a solar development project on the World Community Grid. The grid project spans more than 200 countries and currently links to the processing resources of more than 1 million computers. The...

Tags: Solar Cell, Harvard University, Grid, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Tips for Identity Theft Protection

An identity thief takes personal information and uses it without knowledge. The thief may run up debts or even commit crimes in name. The following tips can help lower risk of becoming a victim like protecting social Security number, fighting phishing, keeping identity from getting trashed, click with caution, asking...

Tags: Harvard University, Social Security, Identity Theft, Phishing, Operational Accounting, Cyberthreats, Government, Security, Spam And Phishing, Finance

White papers 2008-11-15

The Consequence of Non-Cooperation in the Fight Against Phishing

A key way in which banks mitigate the effects of phishing is to have fraudulent websites removed or abusive domain names suspended. This 'Take-Down' is often subcontracted to specialist companies. It analyses six months of 'Feeds of phishing website URLs from multiple sources, including two such companies. It demonstrated that...

Tags: Harvard University, Web Site, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Web Site Development, Spam, Web Technology, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet

White papers 2008-10-16

An Architecture for Extensible Wireless LANs

Off late wireless LANs are a mess. The current 802.11 family of WLANs involves a jumble of competing standards, and a slew of implementations with varying degrees of interoperability and conformance to those standards. This situation has arisen in part from the need to innovate and evolve these networks over...

Tags: Harvard University, WLAN, Wireless, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

White papers 2008-09-15

Explaining science with drawings

A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation NSF mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to explain scientific concepts to high school students. As says Felice Frankel, a Harvard University researcher who is leading...

Tags: National Science Foundation, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, Web Site Development, Productivity, Investment, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-12

ACO Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

The recent popularity of applications based on wireless sensor networks provides a strong motivation for pushing its technological limits. The authors feel that sensor networks can benefit from some of nature's robust solutions. In this work the authors evaluate the applicability of pheromone based foraging techniques, found in many ants,...

Tags: Network, Harvard University, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Productivity, Networking

White papers 2008-01-15

Diamond-based quantum computing

Quantum computing is usually associated with extremely low temperatures. Now, physicists at Harvard University have shown that diamonds can be used to create stable quantum computing building blocks at room temperature. A nitrogen vacancy in diamond could lead to quantum registers able to store or retrieve data. One of the...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Performance Measurement of 802.11a Wireless Links From UAV to Ground Nodes With Various Antenna Orientations

This paper reports measured performance of 802.11a wireless links from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV to ground stations. In a set of field experiments, it records the Received Signal Strength Indicator RSSI and measure the raw link-layer throughput for various antenna orientations, communication distances and ground-station elevations. By comparing the...

Tags: IEEE 802.11, Performance, Harvard University, Wireless Link, Wireless LANs, Performance Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-10-10

Led by Harvard, Boston consortium launches job search site

In collegiately dense Boston, colleges and universities are teaming up to fill open positions through a consortium website, the Boston Globe reports. The New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium is free to job seekers and includes opening for everyone from faculty to doctors, lab techs, administrators...

Tags: Harvard University, consortium

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Life inside a cell

Harvard University has decided to use animations as a tool to enhance the performance of its students in biology. And it selected XVIVO's animation studio to take Harvard University students on a 3D journey. Among other realizations, the company delivered an eight minute animation titled "The Inner Life of the...

Tags: animation, XVIVO

Blog posts 2006-09-01

Non-spherical 'armored' gas bubbles

Gas bubbles are perfectly spherical because this shape offers a minimal surface for any given volume. Even when two bubbles are merging, the results is a larger sphere. But now, researchers from Harvard University have found a way to build stable 'armored' bubbles with non-spherical shapes. They can obtain peapod-,...

Tags: bubble, particle

Blog posts 2005-12-15

Holograms to help nanotechnology

In a very short but intriguing article, Technology Research News TRN writes that researchers from Harvard University and New York University have found a way to use holographic optical traps HOTs to manipulate semiconductor nanowires. As this holographic approach to nano-assembly can allow for simultaneous independent manipulation of multiple nanowires,...

Tags: nanowire, semiconductor, holographic optical trap

Blog posts 2005-11-10

Getting the Message Out in an Emergency: The Harvard University Emergency Notification System

On 9/11, cell phones and other communication systems were greatly impaired in New York City. Telephones systems were overloaded and it was virtually impossible to effectively exchange information with or among employees and emergency responders. At Harvard University, senior management recognized the need for stronger emergency communications systems at the...

Tags: Phone, Harvard University, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Telecom & Utilities

Case studies

The Political Economy of Growth Without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan

Pakistan has had respectable per capita growth over 1950-99, intensive involvement by donors and international agencies ($58 billion in foreign aid), and has a well-educated and high-achieving elite and Diaspora. Yet Pakistan systematically underperforms on most social and political indicators - education, health, sanitation, fertility, gender equality, corruption, political instability...

Tags: Harvard University, Pakistan

Case studies

Additional Resources

Sente 6.0.17 (Mac)

Sente 5 is the premier academic reference manager for Mac OS X. Sente's iTunes-like interface makes finding, reviewing, organizing and using the academic literature in your field easier than ever. Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world,...

Tags: Data Source, Result, Apple Macintosh, Third Street Software, Sente 5

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Navicat for MySQL 8.1.5 (Mac)

Navicat is an ideal solution for MySQL administration and development. This is an all-inclusive mysql front end provides a powerful graphical interface for databases management, development and maintenance. Easy installation and intuitive interface make it an irreplaceable tool for mysql on the web or your local desktop. Navicat supports all...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Navicat, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Will online education kill the university?

More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...

Tags: Harvard, education

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Will online education kill the university?

If you go to Harvard, how much more are you learning in a second-year calculus class than you might at the University of Massachusetts? Or Podunk State College? It's still second-year calculus. Is there any reason that anyone with the motivation shouldn't take a second-year calculus course at Chris...

Tags: Education, Calculus, Internet, Leadership, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-16