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History. The term "Cyber Monday" was coined by Ellen Davis, and was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on 2004 research showing "one of the biggest online shopping days of the year" was the Monday after Thanksgiving (12th-biggest day historically).
In 2019, 93.2 million buyers made purchases online during Black Friday, amassing 7.4 billion dollars in revenue and surpassing Cyber Monday (83.3 million) in total online buyers There was a 19 percent increase compared to the year before. Also, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there was a 50% reduction in people that went in-store shopping ...
A 16-year-old Croatian youth penetrates computers at a U.S. Air Force base in Guam. June: Eligible Receiver 97 tests the American government's readiness against cyberattacks. December: Information Security publishes first issue. [clarification needed] First high-profile attacks on Microsoft's Windows NT operating system; 1998
In August 2010, the U.S. for the first time publicly warned about the Chinese military's use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks aimed at American companies and government agencies. The Pentagon also pointed to an alleged China-based computer spying network dubbed GhostNet that was revealed in a research report last year.
The 2015 United States-China Cybersecurity agreement is an Executive agreement between the United States and the People's Republic of China. The agreement covers several areas of Cybersecurity policy, including on information sharing mechanisms and establishing that neither country will support cyber-enabled Intellectual property theft.
Cyberwarfare is the use of cyber attacks against an enemy state, causing comparable harm to actual warfare and/or disrupting vital computer systems. [1] Some intended outcomes could be espionage, sabotage, propaganda, manipulation or economic warfare . There is significant debate among experts regarding the definition of cyberwarfare, and even ...
Canada's peacekeeping role during the 20th century has played a major role in its positive global image. [3] [4] Canada has served in over 50 peacekeeping missions . [5] Canada has long been reluctant to participate in military operations that are not sanctioned by the United Nations (UN), [6] [7] such as the Vietnam War or the 2003 invasion of ...
Withdrawal of allied forces, including Canada in 2014. Canadian soldiers withdrew while the war was still raging on. By leaving the battlefield in 2014 while an ongoing war was taking place, it was much easier for the Taliban to succeed in Afghanistan in 2021; Taliban victory in Afghanistan in the year 2021 after an effective resurgence