Jennifer Silvius - Academic Blog

  Biometrics: Subject to Privacy Violations and Database Breaches When signing on to one's computer, mobile phone, and other devices, it is inconvenient to remember a pesky password; Especially nowadays, with it being essential that every item and every website must have a different password. It is no wonder that biometrics is becoming popular amongst mobile and computer devices. Nevertheless, how safe is biometrics? What happens to one's biometric data once it has been entered into the device? The even more critical question is, can one's biometric data be hacked? Biometrics, though convenient, has several faults that people should exercise caution with, it is not as safe as it may seem. Biometrics has become part of the American culture and will most likely continue to flourish and become more robust. However, those who work with biometrics such as businesses, governments, and IT professionals must understand the risk associated with biometrics and take proper precautions...

  Hacking Virtual Classrooms      Cybercrimes are becoming more common and more sophisticated as time goes on. Within the recent year, alone times have changed. Due to the COVID-19, Pandemic schools have had to adjust their curriculum to online. Not only are colleges adapting to online schools but so are grade schools, leaving schools vulnerable to more cyberattacks. On August 24, 2020, a fifth-grade class at McKinley elementary school, located in San Leandro, California (San Francisco Bay Area), held a physical education class through zoom. A hacker was able "Zoom-bomb" the class (hacked into zoom). When he/she first joined the class, he/she opened by using offensive language followed by showing pornography images to the children. However, there was no child pornography involved. It was images of adults. The school district reported this offense to the San Leandro police department. The school is unsure if the hackers are from inside or outside the school (Hegarty, ...

        (Photo from GDJ, 2017).                                                                                                      It is Time to End Human Trafficking   In the year 2020, one would think that modern slavery is dead. However, did you know that slavery exists today? Did you that there are currently 21 million people worldwide who are victims of human trafficking? To put that in perspective, according to worldschildren.org, “There are more slaves in the world than the population of London, New York, and Los Angeles combined” (Goodrum, M. 2019).                            ...

                                                                       I Was a Child Soldier Jennifer Barnard    Wilmington University                                         Abstract   This is a fictional story about a kidnapped child that was forced to be a child soldier for ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). The information is based on real events that happened during the ruling of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and timelines and curriculum were taken by actual accounts from the Islamic state survivors. This article is meant to bring awareness regarding modern-day slavery and its devastation among the victims involved...