Executive Summary Daisytek International, Inc., is the largest wholesale distributor of non-paper consumable computer supplies and accessories in North America. This article focuses on the evolution of Daisytek’s distribution operations from a decentralized, ground-based system to a centralized, air-based system that features a strategic alliance with FedEx. Daisytek’s distribution strategy has...

We describe a new type of threat to the Internet infrastructure, in the shape of a highly efficient but very well camouflaged click-fraud attack on the advertising infrastructure. The attack, which we refer to as a “badvertisement”, is described and experimentally verified on several prominent advertisement schemes. This stealthy attack can be thought of as a threatening mutation of spam and ph...