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. We analyse six months of ‘feeds’ of phishing website URLs from multiple sources, including two such companies. We demonstrate that in each case huge numbers of websites may be known to others, but the...

A group of individuals with access to transfers seeks to make a binary collective decision. All known mechanisms they might use are either are often inefficient (e.g. voting), subject to severe collusion problems (e.g. the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism) or require the planner being informed about the distribution of valuations (e.g. the Expected Externality mechanism). I propose a simple, bud...

Before You Purchase a Used Car It is advisable to hire a mechanic to inspect a car you are considering purchasing. Many local repair shops or service stations will inspect the vehicle for a fee. Check in the yellow pages under “Auto Repair” for a listing of shops. When calling, make sure that the shop will check all the vital systems (brakes, belts, steering, oil, cooling system, exhaust, shock...

Before You Purchase a Used Car It is advisable to hire a mechanic to inspect a car you are considering purchasing. Many local repair shops or service stations will inspect the vehicle for a fee. Check in the yellow pages under “Auto Repair” for a listing of shops. When calling, make sure that the shop will check all the vital systems (brakes, belts, steering, oil, cooling system, exhaust, shock...

This paper characterizes the complexity of a knowledge worker’s environment in today’s business enterprise. This environment, with its ever-changing landscape of tasks, processes, tools, and technologies are making prohibitive demands on the knowledge worker’s time and attention. To aid in the successful navigation of this complex environment, this paper examines usage of software agent for e-s...

OBJECTIVE Compulsive buying is controversial in clinical psychiatry. Although it is defined as an obsessive-compulsive disorder, other personality aspects besides compulsivity are related to compulsive buying. Recent studies suggest that compulsivity and impulsivity might represent a continuum, with several psychiatric disorders lying between these two extremes. In this sense, and following the...

A study is proposed to test the effects of temporal proximity between the encounter of a stimulus and the receipt of the product on impulsive online buying behavior. In traditional retail settings, temporal proximity between exposure to a stimulus and receipt of the product is an important factor influencing impulsive buying behavior. In most online shopping situations however, there is a time ...

Until recently, Baby Boomers, with over 76 million members strong, were the largest consumer market in the U.S. However, as members of this generation have gradually entered retirement age and their spending has shifted from trendy goods to more mature, need-driven products, Generation Y has emerged as an enormous force which will inevitably rival Baby Boomers’ market dominance (Cortes, 2004). ...

in recent years, many changes have been observed in buying culture of customers and developing chain stores in iran. moreover, need to be more competition in business environments made necessary the stablishment of chain stores, the creation of competitive advantage and long relations to the costumers. regular marketing is a response to stores requirement when establishing such a win-win long r...