Hacker Case Studies Samples For Students

Analysis of the negotiation

Following between the co – owners of the Hackerstar Company, I was appointed the chief attorney representing one of the owners by the name Alan Hacker. This negotiation is taking place so that the two can come to an agreement that will see Litigation ruled out, Hackerstar receive royalties that Star is claiming and Hacker gets to move on with his innovations with another group of investors.

The peripheral elements that may have an impact on the negotiation include sharing of HackerStar’s assets, possibility that Star may have a personal grudge with Hacker. Star may be out to sue Hacker ...

Objective

CardConnect Company faces challenges in international management. In the recent past, the company has failed to formulate an effective strategy, structuring an appropriate organizational design and managing people in an international surrounding. The CardConnect firm is forced to handle technical, economic and social differences in the business environment. Although CardConnect has reached the global market scene, it still faces international challenges while competing with other credit card companies. CardConnect firm should take precaution to protect the Clover (POS company) because it is depicted as one of the commonly applied computing systems around the world. The hackers have targeted the ...

Family structure affects the rate of poverty among societies. The number of parents in a family gets linked with the availability of quality economic and human resource available to a child. Families headed by single parents are likely to be economically vulnerable as compared to married couples. Single parent families have only one wage earner and this provides a reason for economic vulnerability (Alesina & Glaesar 42). Poverty caused by the family structure impacts on both the parent and children. The age of children also affects poverty rates. Families composed of young children who are unable to provide labor have higher poverty levels. ...

Abstract

Most organizations and businesses have reported a loss of billions of money while others have become bankrupt leading to closure. Security breaches have propagated most of these events due to the kind of technology implemented. Mobile devices and Internet connections have been on top of the list. As technology keeps on evolving, different convenient methods of communication and accessing information keeps on improving. This evolution leads to new cybercrime activities which have posed to be a significant threat to financial growth in different economic sectors. However, there have been the implementation of new methods to curb the security breaches ...

Introduction

Cyber Software, Inc. is a medium-size company that specializes in producing cyber protection software products. After a recent hacker attack the owner and CEO of the corporation Joseph Jackson felt a pressing need of changing the way the company is operating in order to help customers secure information with the help of innovative technological solutions.
The envisaged changes are going to be discussed in the following mini management plan. The plan starts with a brief analysis of the company’s management history followed by the development of new vision and mission statements, based on the new targets Cyber Software, ...

Introduction

Technology, though has made it convenient to run better businesses and commercial ventures, it has brought along numerous threats with it. These threats are dangerous and malicious – they could steal data or bring down a network, and mostly occur from external sources. Some notable and common ones of these are the two network probes called Ping Sweeps and Port Scans.

Network Probes – Ping Sweeps and Port Scans

Network probes by themselves cannot be called as intrusions, but they can be used in a malicious manner that could affect a business by stealing or even bring a whole network down thus incapacitating a business. The common probes used for such intentions are ...

Introduction:

According to a brief analysis, the rising issues of digital crime and digital terrorism requires training of law enforcement workers. In current situation, the law enforcement is not talented enough to handle the cases of digital crime and terrorism. There is no doubt in the fact that world is getting digitized every coming day so the knowledge of this world is mandatory in order to solve its issues. Following are eight forecasts which have been formulated after collecting data and analysis in many different situations.

Forecast 1:

Technology is changing rapidly and so are the ways to digital crime and terrorism. This ...

Introduction

Sony Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products with headquarters located in Konan Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company evolved as Sony in 1958, when its first product, the TR-55 radio transistor was launched under this brand name. Ever since its inception, the company has been a leading name in the electronics industry and caters for consumer as well as professional markets. According to the 2012 list of Fortune Global 500, the company ranked at the 87th position. The Sony Corporation has four major business units which are divided as follows; Sony Electronics, Sony Motion pictures, and Sony ...

1. At Hannaford, the credit card data theft was conducted through SQL injection attacks, or a series of steps, which used the vulnerability of databases in order to pass an untrusted SQL command (Peikari, and Chuvakin 377-378). The SQL injection attacks were well-known to the retailers, however Hannaford did not consider this threat and continued using their old SQL database management system. This fact eventually made the company an easy target for the data thieves. Moreover, weak security control of the company’s wireless network allowed the thieves to introduce sniffer programs, which could intercept card numbers with their PINs. ...

Ping Sweeps and Port Scans

Introduction

Every information infrastructure of any organization is target for hackers. Hackers will always come up with new ways of trying to gain access to the network whether internally or externally. Some of the techniques that have been employed by intruders include ping sweeps and port scans (Baskin, & Kanclirz, 2008). They use these means to access network information, which would be instrumental for them in the process of hacking.

Ping sweeps

Ping sweeps is a major way through which hackers will gain access to network resources. Every IT professional should be worried about the possibility of the same happening to his or ...

Introduction

Electronic commerce involves buying and selling of products over electronic systems. The electronic systems which offer the channel for trading electronically include the internet and other computer networks. Electronic trading has risen in the recent past greatly. Electronic commerce goes hand in hand with the following innovations; electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange, inventory management and the automated data collection systems. The process of trading is done electronically for virtual contents but physical transportation of the items is also involved at some point of trade. (Sandy, 1998)

Risks associated with implementing the electronic commerce

There are several types ...