Attack Research Papers Samples For Students

Embedded Expertise and the New Terrorism is a journal for crime, conflict and the media written by Jonny Burnett from University of Leeds and Dave Whyte from University of Stirling. The article was written in December the year 2003. The article surveys the field of terrorism since the attack of September 11th. The article does try to assess some of the main successes, future challenges and perennial issues. The authors of the article claim that terrorism studies has matured and grown since the attack took place. Some of the successes of the attack include new dedicated researchers and scholars and ...

The Battle of the wilderness was fought from May 5-7 in 1864 and it took almost two days. This battle was between two Generals of the Civil war namely Ulysses S. Grant and Robert Lee. The battle was the beginning of U. S. Grant’s overland operation in opposition to Richmond. Actually it was his first war in the Virginia region as well as his first war in opposition to Robert Lee. The war was fought near the town of Richmond town which was being protected by General Robert Lee. The major objective of Grant was to capture this ...

War in Iraq, is one of the controversial events in history of American wars. It takes two to tango, and this is the case of the war in Iraq. For a war to start there should be some driving forces or effects. The justification for the Iraq invasion remains quite unclear despite the prior consequences that came with the war. The invasion was suggested to have begun following the 9/11 attack of World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001. Americans attacked Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam’s dictatorship, and seven years later the war came to end (Mahnken and ...

Abstract

One of the issues that have garnered massive media attention is terrorism. Terrorists have attacked various places causing massive loss of human life and property. The September 11 attack on America signalled to its administration that it had to re-examine its security policies. It believed that the attack was instigated by its ignominy to control the security situation in within its jurisdiction and undoubtedly the citizens’ overprotection by the constitution. The government made a decision to severely scrutinize the citizens. The previous privacy that the 4th constitutional amendment granted the Americans was later disregarded and president bush took it to ...

The stand your ground law is a type of jurisdiction in which, individuals are given the right to use force in the event they are in danger or approached by such circumstances. The law does not provide any statute for the evasion of such circumstances but allows for the individual to counteract the force with an equal measure of force. When this law is reviewed with respect to the humanitarian perspective of human rights, it is considered as a wrong undertaking. As a matter of fact, I consider this law as a discriminative law and violate the natural course of life forms. There ...

Introduction to Security: Defending Against Attacks

Introduction to Security: Defending Against Attacks

Introduction:

Information security refers to all tasks that deal with guarding digital information with the aim of ensuring proper implementation of security measures. However, even when all security measures have been taken, it is hard to completely guarantee immunity from attacks or consider a system to be completely secure (Ciampa, 2010).
Information security can be considered as protection since its main goal is to create defenses that ward off security attacks and prevent collapse of the system in case an attack is successful. These defenses are intended to protect information that is of value ...

Introduction

The Iraq war is one of most significant events of recent times. War on Iraq was imposed on Iraq by United States of America and its allies. The war was started on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein’s involvement in terrorist activities against America. America and allied forces alleged that Iraq is a treat to America and world because of its involvement in making weapons of mass destruction. This paper aims to propose a discussion on war on Iraq and presents a firsthand account of the war on Iraq.

Background

The attack of 9/11 raised serious concerns over ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti and Gianlorenzo Bernini are among the best known artist who curved the statue of David. Michelangelo’s Statue of David is thought to come its completion at around 1504 (Lieberman, Ralph, 11). This is the most acknowledge works of the high Renaissance Period. On the other hand Benini’s David is thought to come to its completion at around 1623-1624. This is one of the sculpture that was fourth to be commissioned as life sized statue by Cardinal Borghese. It is therefore worth examining the two statues of David brought by the two artists to find out ...

Abstract

(SNSs) Social Networking Sites or online social networks are the most outstanding technological phenomena in the twenty first century. These are the most visited sites globally with an informal but comprehensive management tools. SRNs are also used for commercial purposes for instance, MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. In this study, various aspects of network, social and physical security associated with online social networks sites have been discussed beginning with the introduction of the mechanisms related to each threat and the summaries of relevant solutions that can be adopted to solve these issues amicably (Wang et al., 2009). Each mode ...

Asthma is a complex multifactorial disease that affects millions of people worldwide and can occur across any age or ethnicity. In children, boys are slightly more affected than girls, but in adults, women are more affected than men (Fanta 1002). Asthma affects about 300 million people and accounts for around 250,000 deaths each year worldwide (Lv et al. 105; Ober and Yao 11). Asthma can be atopic or non-atopic. Atopic asthma usually starts in childhood or adolescence and is hypothesized to be influenced by genetic predisposition. Non-atopic asthma usually occurs in adults and can result from bacterial or viral ...

- Introduction to the Issue
The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) was established for the primary purpose of ensuring “the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism” . The Act was originally passed on January 23, 2002 after the destructive effects of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. The gigantic losses sustained by the US economy necessitated urgent measures to mitigate terrorism risks and to spread the potential losses in future events of similar nature. The TRIA, which had stipulated initial termination date of December 31, 2005 was extended initially ...

VACCINES, VACCINATION AND IMMUNIZATION, AND DISEASES CONTROL

Introduction to Biology, SCI 120

Vaccines, Vaccination and immunization, and disease control
Vaccines are defined as chemicals prepared from antigens (disease causing agents) that are injected into the human body, in order to activate the body’s defense mechanism against harmful diseases. Vaccines are made mostly for diseases that are fatal or incurable. Vaccination is defined as the process of injecting vaccines into the body in order to initiate disease protection. Immunization is the process of developing resistance against harmful diseases, most commonly through the use of vaccines. Vaccination is carried out to prevent from numerous diseases including ...

The United States and Cuba continue to share a strained and fragile relationship based on the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion over fifty years ago. This strained relationship had a long term effect on the Kennedy government. The attack at the Bay of Pigs started with a group of Cuban refugees who were trained and financed by the American group the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 1960. They arrived in Cuba and attempted to overthrow the government headed by Fidel Castro. This socialist government, led by Fidel Castro fought back and the attack on the government failed.
The ...

- References
- Y. C. Hu, A. Perrig and D.B. Johnson,
«Packet Leashes: A Defense against Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Networks," 22nd Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies
- M. Taheri, M. Naderi and M. Barekatain , "New Approach for Detection and defending the Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Proc.of IEEE International Conference on Communications, Vol. 10, pp. 3201–3205, June 2001.
- P.V. Tran ,L. X. Hung ,Y.K. Lee, S. Y. Lee and H. Lee, "TTM: An Efficient Mechanism to Detect Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks ," 4th IEEE ...

Introduction

The 9/11 Attack has been regarded as one of the major events in the history of America. This attack killed and maimed more people inside United States boundaries in a day than any other event since the historic Pearl Harbor attack. Notably, those who died in the horrific carnage in Pennsylvania, Washington and Manhattan on 11th Sept were the most direct victims of the terror attack. Many more people were killed in the subsequent “war on terror”. Arguably, several essential facts regarding 9/11 attacks were obvious; i.e. the attack was an act of mass murder where more than three thousand ...

Introduction

The acts of terrorism have for a long time been imminent in various parts of the world and especially the US affiliated regions. In the US Joint Task Force on Terrorism, we have received many cases involving various kinds of terrorism actions. The most recent case involves a suicide bomber at Floola. The bombing was carried out by a terrorist driving the vehicle, full of explosives, into a community building in a residential neighborhood housing service members on a U.S military base in the country. This act of terrorism was observed motivated by retaliatory actions because of frequents activities of U.S against terrorism especially in ...

The Attack in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 can be considered one of the major turning points of the Second World War of 1939-1945 as the Japanese Navy sent out a surprise attack against the United States by attacking its base in Pearl Harbor. The events following the attack pulled the US into the foray of the war against the Axis Powers, making the war deadlier as it expanded to various parts of the globe. However, it is often unnoticed or undiscussed as to what led the Japanese, who were in the Eastern Continent, to attack America without fearing ...

The Battle of Shiloh (known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing), took place from April 6th to April 7, 1862. It was one of the biggest early activities of the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865. It was majorly an engagement between National and Confederate groups. The Union forces were led by Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General Don Carlos Buell while the Confederations forces were led by General Albert Sidney Johnston and General P. G. T. Beauregard. The first activities that sparked the war happened early Sunday morning of April 6, when a Yankee patrol spotted ...

The United States has experienced the wrath of terrorism in several instances. Some of the attacks appear in the American lands or soils while others target barracks or embassies containing soldiers from US (McCann, 2006). When the systematic studies behind terrorism started in 1970’s, some researchers believed that terrorism, in the US, was more or less a cartel of left-wing groups, such as, German Red Army Italian Red Brigade, and Latin American groups. What remained clear to most philosophers and theologians, however, was that terrorism was an act of violation against human justice and the law of God (Combs ...

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Should the attacks on 9/11 have been prevented?

The attack on 9/11 came as a shock but was not a surprise (National Commission, 2004). Based on this fact, we can conclude that with proper preparation, the attack would have been prevented. Before the attack on the world trade center on September 11th, there has been multiple attacks targeting the center. There were also increased attacks throughout America by Islamist extremists. Following the increased threat and multiple efforts to kill Americans in mass killings, the nation should have been prepared for a large scale attack. This is following a direct threat by Bin Laden himself to bring havoc on ...

In the case of the TJX.com, the portion of the company that was compromised was the credit card numbers and information for all of the customers that hold a credit card for any of the stores under the TJX umbrella (eSecurity Planet Staff, 2010). The sad truth of the matter is that nearly any company has the potential to be victim to a cyber attack, and nearly all company’s systems have the potential to be vulnerable to this attack, given the level of skill and ingenuity that many hackers have. However, the TJX corporation failed to disclose some pertinent information ...

Abstract

The enhancement of cyber-attacks that is being experienced at enterprise, national and international level is worrying. This trend has resulted in the increase of funding for the research and study of cybersecurity technologies. Threats occurring on the organization’s assets are experienced daily due to change and improvement of technologies that are developed frequently. Computer security is an important aspect of any organization and government agency. With the advancement in computer technologies, there are advanced attacks that are targeted at computer systems which are thought to contain vital information. Computer hackers are doing all they can to break into ...

Introduction

Zero day or zero hour threats, are threats that exploit new or previously unknown vulnerabilities in computer applications. The attack therefore occurs in zero days/zero hours of awareness of its existence. Developers of the threat exploit vulnerabilities unknown to the developers of the targeted software. These threats, unfortunately, are difficult to analyze since no data about them is available until after the attack. In addition, and owing to rarity of their occurrence, their observation in honey pots and experiments in labs is highly unlikely. Zero day threats easily pass through signature-based defenses undetected and as such, are an increasing ...

Terrorism continues to threaten global security and the American interests. It is noteworthy that the emergence of the internet and consequential globalization has served to complicate the situation even further. In response, the United States of America through multiple departments has developed a number of counterterrorism and prevention methods. These measures can be split into two large subgroups; preemptive action and the reactive action. Under the preemptive action, the measure is taken in advance based on the available intelligence. This, therefore, seeks to forestall a possible attack. Under the reactive action, the measure is taken after the attack has occurred. Usually, ...

Terrorism is becoming more sophisticated than before with the use of mass destruction weapons. This demands a new strategy for the security enforcers in order to counter the threats. Defensive deterrence is no longer the solution to prevent attacks but offensive preemption is needed to counter the attacks. Preemption is a measure that ensures terrorists do not take the initiative and attack different places as they chose. A state of can invoke self measure which according UN charter article 51 is allowed. Preemption of military deterrent preventive measure against terrorism is a principle of war of the permanent members of the UN ...

Computer attacks on companies happen all the time, but many of them are not publicized. The damaging result of revealing such information to the public leads to jeopardized information and creates avenues for future attacks.
Google became the latest casualty in 2010 among other companies to reveal to the public that it had faced a series of attacks originating from China. The attacks were directed at Gmail users who were human rights activists. According to Elinor Mills, the search engine said it would stop its censoring its Web results in China and could finally exit the market.
According ...

Facilitator:

Associate-degree level versus the baccalaureate-degree level in nursing
Associate degree level (ADN) in nursing is a concentrated two-year program that includes a combination of sciences, liberal arts, and more focused nursing courses. It takes a shorter time and it focuses on underserved victims in the society. The baccalaureate-degree level (BSN) is a more advanced level in nursing that compliments the nursing field as a whole and encompasses all aspects of nursing like first aid, treatment, and chronic handling (Hamilton, 2008). It aims at serving the whole population and not the people who lack the services. The associate degree level and the baccalaureate degree ...

- The base description of biofuels as an easily found national resource is a supported fact in many cases (Bringezuk 2009). Alongside this ease of acquisition will be an accompanying ease of security, this is correctly addressed in the answer as well. However, the fundamental abuse of biodiesel in the maritime transport industry itself has not been credibly represented. While the use of biofuels does have the capacity to create jobs, there is emerging science that indicates that there substantial potential for abuse and pollution (Bringezuk 2009).
Demirbas (2006) illustrates the many benefits that include the creation of jobs ...

Commentary 1

I agree with the definitions provided for risk assessment and vulnerability assessment However, I disagree with the difference cited between the two. In particular, while I agree that risk assessment involves the details needed in determining the requirements for recovering from an attack, risk assessment mainly involves the assessment or evaluation of a situation that involves a system’s exposure to danger (Maniscalchi, 2009). It also involves considerations of psychological and physical risks, as well as the protection of privacy (“Risk Assessment Guide, “ n.d.). In addition, I disagree that vulnerability assessment focuses on a specific system and its capabilities and assets because ...

A computer virus can simply be defined as a piece of code or program that is able to replicate itself, runs on a computer against the owner’s wishes, and spreads from one computer to another. Currently, computer viruses have no commercial value but are highly known to be implemented in the military. Many organizations or individuals use viruses to harness competition especially in businesses. A virus can be developed to perform a specific purpose. This includes corrupting files in computers and databases (destructive viruses), hacking (obtaining information from computers and databases).
An increase in technological advancements has led to an ...

Technology Evaluation: Bank Solutions

Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
IDS or Intrusion Detection System as mentioned in Part 1 and 2 of technology case study aids information systems in dealing and preparing for network attacks. This security system accomplishes the task of collecting information from various network and system sources and analyzes the information for any potential threats of attack (SANS Institute, 2001). In terms of capabilities IDS provides
- Analysis and monitoring of the system activities and users
- System Audit of vulnerabilities and configurations
- Statistical analysis of activity patterns and matches them with the known activities that ...

Business continuity plans

Management actions prior to cyber attack
“A cyber-attack is an attack initiated from a computer against a website, computer system or individual computer (Holland&Knight, 2013).” It compromises the integrity or confidentiality of information stored in it. The management should determine and evaluate the company’s security chain in order to identify any weak links. The management should formulate a compliance work plan to monitor the highest risks of a cyber-attack. The company should implement an enterprise wide data management program to mitigate the risk of losing company data. The management should also invest in computer security equipment and implement procedures to deter ...

The answer for question one is not entirely right. The sector of distribution has been given to be the most vulnerable sector of the petroleum industry. Terrorism and natural disasters have been highlighted as the major threats to distribution. Terrorist attacks can however be made even on refineries. Natural disasters would also interfere adversely with refinery plants and the process of exploration. From my point of view, it is the refinery sector that is most vulnerable. A single terrorist strike in a refinery would cause a big crisis compared to distribution that can be substituted by other channels. The use of ...

An asymmetric threat is defined in military terms to refer to strategies and tactics that are utilized by a weaker opponent to take advantage of the vulnerabilities in the stronger opponents. For example inferior military that cannot face the US military in open combat employ strategies that render the US military might irrelevant. In terms of business operations and information security, it refers to an attack initiated by an adversary towards a business entity. Asymmetric threats are characterized by three scenarios: it must involve a tactic, strategy or exploit that an adversary could utilize against an organization. Second, it must include a tactic ...

Introduction

Terrorism refers to the systematic use of violence to cause terror among civilians with the purpose of asserting demands and forcing the government to give in to those demands. Individuals involved in terror activity are called terrorists. The history of terrorism dates back to the French Revolution when words like 'terror', 'terrorist' and 'terrorism' were incorporated in the modern lexicon. However, in those days the acts of terror were executed by those in power, mostly through the man killing means of guillotine and not bombs. In the mid-19th century in the Unites States, the word 'terrorism' began to be ...

Arteries are those vessels in the body that carry blood that is rich in oxygen. The healthy arteries are those that have smooth inner walls and flowing of the blood in the arteries is easy. However, some people have clogged arteries as a result of the buildup of plaques on the inner side of the arteries. The arterial plaques may result in the reduced blood flow. Heart disease refers to the disease that affects the heart and the blood vessel most of which have a relationship with atherosclerosis process. The disease is also known as cardiovascular disease. The atherosclerosis process refers ...

Tora! Tora! Tora! Is a 1970 film based on the American-Japanese war that ensued after the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer. The title of the film is a Japanese code-word used to imply that the Japanese managed to completely surprise the Americans. In English, Tora! Tora! Tora! means Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! read as totsugeki-raigeki (attack-torpedo-attack) and thus the code word to-ra, to-ra, to-ra . This movie is an epic recreation of the events that preceded and actually led to the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor and the eventual occurrence of the Second World ...

Attack at Mers-el-Kébir
The Second World War can be considered one of the deadliest wars in history especially in its early years as both the Allied and Axis Powers tried to subdue each other despite the losses it may incur due to the crossfire from both parties. Despite recovering from the first World War, the Europeans fought the growing fellow European state Germany with the United States while its allies Japan and Italy were also making their own attacks against the Allied Powers. While some of the most notable confrontations had paved the way to the end ...

Networks provide access or entry points to organizational systems and applications. It is emphatically crucial that gatekeepers be installed to help in controlling unauthorized access to several servers within the networked environment. While operating system's gatekeepers within servers provide a good source of protection to servers, it's important that servers are protected from other external attacks. Reconfiguration and replacement of gatekeepers by imposters should also be protected. Computer networks act as important channels for sharing resources, data, and other communication functions. To avoid cases of downtime, which affects critical business applications, it is important to implement network maintenance and data ...

When the Japanese attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the American public was stunned. While not yet a state, Hawaii was a territory of the United States, and the base there was one of the most important in the Pacific. The attack of course was the catalyst that drew the United States into the war, not only in the Pacific, but also in Europe. For the American public, these events were shocking and sudden. Yet for those familiar with the situation and in positions of power in the War Department, State Department, and the White ...

Question One

Hurricane Sandy was the most destructive and deadliest tropical cyclone in the history of United States. As related to communication and information management, government forecasters had predicted that the East Coast could experience a rapid storm, which would merge with the Sandy (Hemsley, 2013). Based on this, several agencies and government focused on warning and notification of the potentiality of this natural disaster. This occurred through the use of effective communication plans, processes, equipment, architectures and standards, so that support and operational units maintained situational awareness and communication connectivity. There was effective planning for information management and communications to ensure ...

A brief review of its implications on society

Introduction
- Thesis statement: Terrorists and assassins are driven by their beliefs and ideals that are in conflict with those, with whom they fight against.
- Intellectual roots of terrorism

Assassination as an aspect of terrorism

- Major reasons for assassinations
- Notable assassinations in history

Methodology and target identification

- Personalities and infrastructures identified as symbols of opposition
- Important landmarks and cascading effects of attack
- Access and use of sophisticated technologies
- Advantages of terrorists over law enforcement personnel

Major forms of terrorism

- Suicide terrorism
- Cyber terrorism

Effects of terrorism in society

- Both short term and long term effects
- Hampers developmental activity
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The Somme is a river present in the northern region of France. The name illustrates the name of a river, as well as the tragedy of a war fought in the year of 1914 between Germany and the Allies. The name of Somme still now arouses a bunch of emotions even after near about a century for the group of people who were compelled to suffer directly or indirectly due to the devastating effect of the war. The battle of Somme is mostly known for its slaughtering of millions of lives. But the name of this battle is chiefly associated with the horrific slaughtering ...

The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a military composition in North Atlantic signed in 1949. NATO is also referred to as North Atlantic Alliance. It consists of collective defense where a member state mutually agrees to defend one another in case of an external attack by an enemy. Its headquarters is located in Brussels Belgium, it constitutes of 28 member’s state the newest members being Croatia and Albania who joined in April 2009, it’s also interesting to note that over 70% of world defense spending originates from NATO member states. For the first few years, NATO was not ...

Introduction

Biological weapons are a unique environmental hazard as they naturally occur in the environment, but they are also unnatural in the way they inflicted upon the community. The history of bioterrorism goes back to 6th century BC, an incident characterized by Assyrians poisoning the walls of enemies with rye ergot. The Solon also used purgative herb in the times of siege of Krissa. Thus, bioterrorism is defined as an intentional dissemination or release of biologic agents such as toxins, viruses and bacteria. They mostly occur naturally but due to technological advancements, some of them are human modified. These viruses, fungi, ...

Overview

Securing mobile data is one of the core focus areas of mobile manufacturers primarily because of the global trend in mobile consumption. In the face of an employee driven communication, workers are increasingly using mobile devices to access business application. In 2011, the prevalence rate of employee driven communication grew up by 10 percent up from the 31 percent in 2010. More people who rely on mobile device such as tablets and smart phones are less likely to use the traditional computers giving an indication of the growing trend in consumerization of IT. A critical area of focus for ...

Introduction

There are many types of threats that exist over the considerably large network of computers and users we call the World Wide Web or the internet. Cyber Hacking is one of the most common forms of threats alongside with other common ones such as viruses, Trojans and worms. All of these were designed to compromise the normally-stable connection of users to the internet and even local area networks.

DoS (Denial of Service) and DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) are some of the most common and disabling types of attacks that could be targeted against an internet or local area ...

The SCTP INIT scan:

This scan technique is applicable in both TCP and UDP protocols. The scanning techniques come with multiple features for information retrieval, which include the multi-homing. The technique gets its alternative name of half-open scanning since the scan does not initiate a full SCTP association. An INIT chunk is responsible for initiating the scan. This technique is applicable in cases where multiple ports are to be scanned since it is capable of scanning thousands of ports within a very short time. The scan is useful in SS7 related applications. This scan can be detected using a zone alarm and be blocked using an ...

E-Business Security

Flame or sKyWIper has multiple associated threats that have been discussed as a part of the initial diagnostic and informatory research however on one hand it is important to do a threat analysis and understand the impact that this malware can actually have, it is also important to complete the discussion by researching the solution and the methods that can be used in order to check this type of attack (sKyWIper Analysis Team, 2012). The solution that we will identify will be in two phases, as a part of the initial discussion the symptoms and prevention will be discussed which will be ...

Security in the United States and terrorist groups

The most common mode of attack that terrorists pose on the U.S is by air. There are several factors that are exploited by the terrorists associated with aero attack that favor them. These aspects are not weaknesses on the victims’ side but the exploitation is done due to humanity of the victims (U.S department of justice, 2004).
The first reason that makes terrorist groups to exploit air attack is the speed associated with the aircrafts. Aircrafts are very fast thus speed of accessing the target is high enough to enable reaching the target before detection of any security ...

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Arguably, terrorism is one of the global threats. As a matter of fact, politics and research on terrorism changed irretrievably after the Pentagon and the World Trade Center 9/11 attacks. The link between terrorism and religion and the increase of transnational organizations on terrorism, for example AL-Qaeda has made the research on counter-terrorism efforts and terrorism a reality. The 9/11 attacks raised a lot of controversies and documentaries trying to make the people of America understand what exactly happened on this fateful day. The political, security, as well as social landscape in the world, and arguably USA changed tremendously after the ...

Protecting Essential Infrastructures and Institutions

A cyber-attack refers to a politically based attempt to compromise or undermine the functions of computer systems of a country. It is also referred to as efforts to track the online movements of an individual or a country without their permission (Graff, 2011). This paper will discuss why U.S is more open to cyber-attacks than its likely enemies. It will also discuss how U.S. can guard its energy sector against cyber-attacks.

Question 1

Clarke wrote down that the United States is more vulnerable to cyber-attack than before. This is because the country is trying to fight the constant attacks that it keeps on receiving ...

Preface

Hundred Years’ War took place between England and France for Flanders and the French provinces of Guyenne, Normandy and Anjou, which formerly were in the possession of the English king. It had great historical significance for the development of both England and France. Governmental and cultural division of England and France took place. The British and French the feudal elite clarified their relations, and an absolute monarchy established in England and France. This paper aims at analyzing the course of events in the framework of the war and finding the lessons that can be learnt from it.

Chronology

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Background

The attack on Pearl Harbor on which happened on December 7th of 1941 was one of the major turning points in the 19th century history of Japan and America (Walter, 1957). Over 2000 Americans the day that the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the almost unsuspecting bay. Most of the people who died or got injured were U.S Navies or those who are employed by the U.S government for maintenance and other types of jobs (Prange, 1981). Almost all of the sea vessels, especially the battle ships that were stationed at Pearl Harbor during that incident either got damaged ...

Almost every day, new technology arises so organizations must be up to date with their security solutions to avoid being hacked. One such device that is constantly changing are the devices that uses mobile device technology. Vulnerability assessments and penetration testing requirements for these types of devices are a little different from ordinary devices.

Phone hacking is not limited to entering pin numbers and tapping them. Criminals can get access to your phone simply by manipulation of some data on the mobile devices and numerous social engineering techniques with the use of malicious codes. Mobile users are at risk of ...

Advanced Persistent Threats or most commonly known as APTs have been the buzzword around companies since Google announced having been a victim of it in 2010. These types of crimes are usually focused on businesses and political targets. They are referred to as advanced because they utilizes computers and advanced technology when attacking, persistent because background study and careful monitoring and analysis is done before initiating the attack and considered as threat due to the fact that these attacks involved human interventions usually by experts (Damballa, 2012).
Companies are having the biggest risks of being attack by APTs because ...

Abstract

Computer technology has evolved over time with increase in processing speed and ease of application for different purposes. With the evolution of computer and internet technology, so has the evolution of criminal activities evolved. In the past, for one to be able to hack effectively into a system or a message, it would require uninterrupted exposure to over ten computer workstations incurring costs that range from $ 10,000 in terms of time consumed and resources. Currently there are faster computers and super computers that make processing easier and thus ability to attack target takes less time. From time to time, the ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a simple mechanism that allows plug and play abilities and supports quick, fast and easy transfer of data between removable and other hardware devices. However, the devices are also extremely effective in carrying, installing and running malware, viruses and other malicious payloads with very limited user and system interaction. They thus pose a great threat to information security as attested by a paper titled “A Survey of USB Exploit Mechanisms, Profiling Stuxnet and the possible adaptive measures that could have made it more effective” by Kevin Orrey. The attack threats from USBs include USB Dumpers, USB ...

Terrain influenced surveillance in that the large coverage of a plateau which made the allied troops to easily survey the New York town closely and arrange for an attack. This type of terrain encouraged direct fire since there were no places for hideouts and this caused massive deaths and injuries to both troops.
The solders engaged indirect fire in the battle since some parts of the landscape were forested and this offered strategic bases for redoubt making the fighting forces to be always on lookout of their enemies. Such landscape hindered direct fire hence the soldiers resolved to indirect ...

World War II saw the advent of many different types of new warfare - however, the most dramatic improvements came in the development of strategic bombing and multipurpose aircraft, with high flight ceilings, heavy armor, and incredibly large payloads and armaments. In World War II, the multi-engined heavy bomber became an important tool of aerial warfare. From carpet bombing to Fat Man and Little Boy, these large, slowly moving but intimidating aircraft ruled the skies of the Pacific Ocean and Europe. Two important pieces of aerospace technology that saw use in the war are the B-17 Flying Fortress and ...