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An Evidence-Based Investigation On The Offending Behaviors Of Website Defacers, Cameron J. Hoffman Apr 2024

An Evidence-Based Investigation On The Offending Behaviors Of Website Defacers, Cameron J. Hoffman

AYSPS Dissertations

The rapid development of the internet has far outpaced our ability to protect the internet. As new technologies have developed, so have new ways to exploit these technologies to use them for criminal purposes. This is extremely true of the core of the internet, websites. While the number of websites both personal and business focused have skyrocketed, so too have the number of cyber-attacks against these sites. These cyber-attacks are known as website defacements and can cause costly losses and damage the reputation of their internet victims. In such an attack the website defacer gains unauthorized access to the website …


“A Kiss For Mother, A Hug For Dad”: The Early 20th Century Parents’ Day Campaign, Ralph Larossa, Jaimie Ann Carboy Jan 2008

“A Kiss For Mother, A Hug For Dad”: The Early 20th Century Parents’ Day Campaign, Ralph Larossa, Jaimie Ann Carboy

Sociology Faculty Publications

Father’s Day and Mother’s Day occupy sacred positions in American society—at least today. Unbeknownst to many, however, there was a campaign in the 1920s and 1930s to change Father’s Day and Mother’s Day to Parents’ Day, so that fathers and mothers would be honored on the same day. The campaign, based in New York City, was essentially a debate about the cultural position of parents in American society. How the campaign came to be—and why, in the end, it failed—illustrate the political maneuvering that characterizes people’s efforts to draw symbolic boundaries around fatherhood and motherhood.