Essays on Attacker

Social Engineering is the art of deceiving or manipulating a person to engage in an activity which may or may not be in the best interest of that person. Social engineering encompasses activities such as obtaining the information of someone else deceitfully, gaining access to the computers of other people without their consent and getting a person to fraudulently engage in activities which they could not have engaged in ordinarily (Hagnagy 9-10). Further, social engineering does not consist of merely one action. On the contrary, social engineering entails a multiplicity of skills fitted into a particular framework which when ...

Definition of session hijacking.

Session hijacking is also referred to as TCP session hijacking, and it entails a security attack of a session of a system user over a network that is protected. It is primarily executed through IP spoofing where an attacker inserts commands through source-routed IP packets into an active communication in order to disguise the attacker as one of the authentic users of the system (Basta and Halton, 2008). Since the user of the network is primarily authenticated at the start of the TCP session, it is conceivable for the attacker to execute IP spoofing with ease.

Types of session hijacking.

There are two ...

Part 1 – Assault and Battery

The terms “assault and battery” are often used together although these are two separate crimes. An assault is defined as an action that causes a person to feel the threat of impending violence. An action such as raising a fist or moving menacingly towards the intended victim constitutes an assault, even if no physical contact has occurred. The crime of battery occurs when there is physical contact. Grabbing a person’s arm or punching or striking a person constitutes a case of battery (Baldwin, 2007). Simple assault or battery, where there is limited threat of violence or a minor ...

Introduction

Risk assessment is an intensive process that involves defining the nature of the risks, their location, and ways of mitigating the risks recognized to allow smooth operation of the organization. The risk assessor must identify every system, process, and individual included. In addition, he/she should identify the relevant vulnerabilities and threats (Pompon, 2016). Risk assessment considers every aspect of information security that entails the environmental and physical, management and administrative, in addition to the technical measure.

Risk Assessment methodologies

Asset Audit The approach considers the assets that are part of an organization and establishes if every asset is being safeguarded sufficiently. This ...

1 a) There is two categories of passive attacks: Traffic Analysis and release of message content. In a release of message contents attack, an eavesdropper listens and pursues information shared between two individuals. In traffic analysis attack, an eavesdropper hijacks the conversation between two parties and analysis the packets send between the two parties to find out passwords within those packets. 1b) There are four categories of active attacks: Masquerade, Replay, and modification of message and denial of service. In the first category of active attack that is the masquerade, the attacker pretends or impersonates a validly authorized entity ...

Information Security Governance and Risk Management

This is the foundational domain for professional information security work (Walsh). It provides standards and policies for monitoring information security programs. The domain ensures data quality necessary to support an organization’s objectives. This is critical especially to sensitive and critical information that an organization uses. Risk management is the identification and prioritization of all risks to confidentiality. The most important step in the domain is risk analysis. This involves identification of threats and vulnerabilities on applications and systems. The last phase in the domain is the implementation of the most appropriate and cost-effective security measures and controls to ...

Assignment 1

PART ONE Consequence management is the ability of the government to respond to and recover from a devastating terrorist attack or natural disaster. Response and recovery includes saving lives and diminishing property damage. The National Response Framework (“NRF”) sets forth America’s response doctrine, responsibilities and structures. The NRF provides a detailed guide as to how to respond to disasters, either natural, industrial, biological or civil unrest and terrorist attacks. Describing the manner in which communities are to respond to disasters, it sets forth the way in which a coordinated response can and should occur between first responders, decision ...

(College/Institute) Crime scenes are studied and analyzed as if it were telling a story. In order to be able to ensure a “good ending,” that is the arrest, prosecution, and if warranted, conviction and imprisonment of the perpetrator, certain factors must be analyzed to help in the identification of the suspect. Behavioral patterns such as writing patterns, verbal and non-verbal movements, and speech instances all predict the ways that a person will act in certain situations. This distinct behavioral pattern must be consistent and is independent of the variable of the impact of the activity being done (Douglas, Munn, ...

Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying has seen its rise in recent decades, when internet came to practically every house and every school. Today in order to threaten someone you don’t need to have big muscles or own a weapon. In today’s world, an IP address is enough to make someone’s life miserable. While it may be seen as a harmless virtual naughtiness, it unfortunately has very physical and real life consequences. In last several years, cyberbullying became one of the most popular issues why children contact the ChildLine and one of the top reasons for adolescent suicide. Is there a ...

IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL MALICIOUS ATTACKS, THREATS AND VULNERABILITIES

IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL MALICIOUS ATTACKS, THREATS AND VULNERABILITIES 1. Potential malicious attacks and threats that could be carried out against networks and organizations and their potential consequences

The three potential threats that may affect the network configuration are:

This type of attack is a group of compromised systems (also known as "zombie computers") that attack a single target to cause a denial of service to users themselves are legitimate. The attack consists of a huge flow of messages and requests to the target network. The information flow is released for this overloading and force the system to shut down; as a result, it denies service to legitimate users. A typical way ...

Abstract

Rape in the United States military has historically been viewed as a myth that did not need to be addressed. This way of thinking is the result of the viewpoints of a rape culture. These viewpoints work to legitimize the violence to remove all blame from the attacker, which makes the violence strategic and intentional. It has been noted the main reason intra-military is underreported is, the fact the attacker usually holds a higher level of superiority. This reality results in, the victim needing to report the event with their attacker. It has been reported by the Marine Corps, ...

Abstract

Web servers are the building blocks of this generation distributed systems and plays a major role in the enterprise application architectures. Due to the flexibility and openness that these Web server centric computing model offers, though makes this ubiquity possible, it also opens up corporate data and processes to security threats. This paper focuses on the security of the public Web servers. There are many different vulnerabilities such as exploits utilizing software bugs in the underlying operating system, denial of service, unauthorized access of confidential information, man-in-the middle attacks, subvert the Web server and use it as a bot ...

Abstract

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau is a lone attacker who launched a terrorist attack in Canada in 2014. Zehaf-Bibeau is believed to have been experiencing mental issues as well as a drug problem. Several years after his conversion into the Islamic religion, Zehaf-Bibeau became radicalized and started finding ways through which he could join other foreign fighters in Syria. The Canadian government had placed strict regulations at its border which led to the invalidation of his passport, an act which is believed to have provoked him. Following his displeasure with Canada's new foreign policy to deploy its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

VA Hospital

When considering the VA, many do not think about the technology behind the institution. By some it is considered run down and dreary, too behind the times to have the technology necessary to draw hackers out of their lairs. By others it is considered a medical stronghold for America’s soldiers. By those who work at the Veteran’s administration, they are aware that since 2009, 181 pieces of electronic medical equipment were infected with Malware, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attackers and hackers. One may ask why a cyber attacker would target the Veteran’s administration, or what ...

Internal vs. External Penetration Tests

Penetration testing is a form of practice aimed at improving the security system of an organization by testing the computer systems, web application, network, and databases to establish possibilities of an attacker exploiting the system vulnerabilities. Two types of penetration testing exist, the internal and the external testing. The external penetration testing aims at determining the possibility of a remote attacker to access the internal network by accessing specific crown jewels and servers within the system’s internal network. It exploits the external perimeter of the technology, people, and process and systems connected to the public network infrastructure. The ...

Many Americans today tend to believe that fencing is one of the most organized competitive types of sports worldwide, which uses the bladed weapons. This popular sport has arisen in the end of the nineteenth century in Europe, mainly in Italy and France it was dominant for a long time, but now it is practiced in every part of the world. Domenico Angelo is considered to be the one who has turned fencing into athletic kind of sport and invented obligatory rules of posture and footwork which are still used in modern fencing nowadays. Each fencer requires special protective ...

Abstract

This paper evaluates Hassan’s essay concerning suicide bombing with the aim of gaining an understanding of the phenomenon. In his discussion, Hassan offers three main explanations for the motivations behind these attacks. Initially, he argues that suicide bombers rarely suffer from mental disorders. According to the author, it is also inaccurate to refer to suicide bombers; rather they are more motivated by political reasons. Vengeance also drives some attackers. Such individuals or groups believe that injustices are being or were committed against the population they represent. As a result, if need be, they are willing to sacrifice their ...

Abstract

The privacy and confidentiality of information is a crucial factor for any organization dealing with large volumes of information. On the other hand, the development in technology, increase in the cases of cybercrimes, and the web-security issues that are common in almost every online platform, makes the need for database security concern for organizations that handle date. Currently, DBMS is one of the best tools for ensuring the safety of data, and this paper will review its use in database security. It will give a cognitive outline of how a company can use it, with the sole focus on ...

ABSTRACT

Internet and online security is one of the most important issues facing not only companies and organizations but individuals as well. These concerns are driven by the fact that as the world increasingly grows to use and rely on computers, mobile devices, and the internet; cybercriminals and others including government agencies, are progressively turning their attention to means and methods of exploiting weaknesses in the system. Unfortunately, weaknesses in the system, either through the diversity of devices that are available for use or the means by which those device access the internet or go online, are growing. Despite these ...

Introduction

The black hat hackers have always purposed to exploit any vulnerabilities they find. Once they find a big target, the chance of concentrating on attacking it is high. Most of the organizations that use networks would be foolish to always feel comfortable with their existing network security features. Networks have a lot of points through which the hackers can intrude and mess around with the firewalls as well as the intrusion detection systems. It is important that an organization’s management identifies the possibility of risks. The risks are identified by first analyzing the specific malicious attacks that have ...

Technology

Introduction Anonymous hacker group gained popularity when it hacked the Church of Scientology website in 2008. The group is a structure-less organization that was created to be used by people of all genders, races, ages, nationalities, and religion, to popularize their cause. Since there is no formal membership, the group members communicate via chat rooms on the web or through previous connections2. The group’s symbol is the Guy-Fawkes mask that its supporters worldwide wear at rallies to hide their identities. The group does not have any particular goals, and its only guideline is anti-oppression and is seen to ...

Introduction

The advent of the Internet has revolutionalized the way companies and individuals conduct business, and have necessitated the proliferation of processes involved in honoring transactions through diversified payment methods. Mobile wallet denotes mobile technology that functions like a real wallet by facilitating online payments and purchases (Amoroso et al., 2012). The ease and convenience of operating a digital wallet have made the platform to attract wide spread interest. This paper is devoted to the usage of mobile wallets, their advantages and possible problems. The number of users with smartphones grows from year to year. In this case, mobile wallets ...

The History and importance of cyber security

Introduction The ubiquity of the internet has enhanced modern life. It has enabled rapid and easy access to information at a scale never witnessed before in human history. Communications and business transactions can also get done over the internet by parties separated by huge geographical distances. This convenience eliminates the need for travelling long distances to so that one can undertake such tasks. Cybercrime can get defined as any illegal act involving usage of digital information systems. The process frequently involves a criminal motive to damage the reputation or cause harm, both physical and mental to the victim. This ...

Abstract

A number of states in the US have adopted the Conceal and carry weapon policy in their legislations and have allowed the carrying of concealed weapons in the public. However, the debate on whether to allow the same in campuses and universities have elicited various reactions from students, the general public, law enforcement authorities and experts. This paper looks at the two sides of the debate in the conceal and carry weapons policy in campuses and universities, compares the facts and figures from both sides and takes a position on the issue. After weighing the benefits of the Conceal ...

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This article examines the types of drugs, their effects, and how they influence sex crime. Many people who commit crimes are either under the influence of alcohol or drugs. There seems to be a connection between drugs and offenses such as sexual assault, rape among others. Various drugs have different dangers associated with them. Sedative drugs slow down the way the brain and the body operate, stimulant drugs increase energy and keep people alert while hallucinogenic drugs may lead to very disturbing experiences and expose the user to dangerous behavior. Moreover, individuals who are under the influence of narcotics ...

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 ...

Introduction

For years, women have always considered men to be their protectors; particularly those they are engaged or married to. As long as there has been delinquency, there have been women who are fearful of criminal acts and certain crimes that turns them into victims. Some people think that if a person grows up in a rough part of town or even live in a bad neighborhood, they are able to stand up to just about anything or anybody; completely immune to any unlawful misconduct that takes place in that neighborhood. Parenthetically, men and women are susceptible to the same ...

ISP REMOTE:

ISP REMOTE INTRODUCTION ISP is an acronym for Internet service provider. The term is used to describe a company that can provide one with the ability to access the internet. The ISP provides a gateway to the large interconnected pool of computers that a make up the worldwide web. The connection to the internet can be achieved through different approaches (Fonseca, M. and Agoulmine, N., 2015. p.n.d).These approaches include: Dial-up services: this is a service that provides connectivity to the Internet through the use of the telephony network. It works by connecting the telephone line to the computer ...

Internet Security, Privacy Risks and Vulnerabilities

Internet Security, Privacy Risks and Vulnerabilities

Introduction

Technological solutions are rapidly changing and the internet is accessible to almost everyone hence bringing about many benefits as well as improving the quality of life. However, serious downsides of security and privacy risks and vulnerabilities are involved. This essay looks into the risks of security and privacy, its technological effects, common attack strategies and damage mitigation.

Despite the numerous benefits of internet usage, it serves as an avenue of breeding criminals as hackers and other devious people who steal information for illegal purposes. This makes the internet as much risky as it ...

IEEE 802.1X Standard and EAP Authentication Schemes

Abstract Authentication risks are common reasons why network users are left frustrated when attackers exploit vulnerabilities. With increasing number of network attackers, there is a necessity for reliance on authentication technologies that offer the greatest efficiency in terms of denying access to unauthorized users. IEEE 802.1X and Extensible Authentication Protocol play a major part in mitigating authentication risks including providing a framework for handling issues such as changing of password by attackers, strong credentials in unprotected networks and the risk of re-using a single password for a longer-than-safe duration.

Introduction

Whenever cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in systems, users often suffer a ...

CRITICAL THINKING: DONOVAN'S CHARGE AND FENCES BY AUGUST WILSON

Scene 1: Cox Glen works as a counselor and a life guard in New York City. He fights an attacker during his duty and the attacker dies. Scene 2: When the attacker dies, the police take him to Riker Island where he gets convicted of first degree murder since he killed the assailant.

Scene 4: After spending two years in a law library, the conviction was overturned solidly by a five judges. His charges were reduced to manslaughter. There was anticipation from both the officers and other inmates of Cox’s release based on his reputation of being a ...

Management

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Introduction

This paper is devoted to the usage of mobile wallets, their advantages and possible problems. The number of users with smartphones grows from year to year. In this case, mobile wallets have quickly become popular technology. Nowadays, more than twelve percentages of users with smartphones make mobile payments. There are several main players in the mobile wallets arena. They are PayPal, Apple Pay, Goggle Wallet, Android Pay and Samsung Pay (Voo, 2013). There are some applications, which are available for both platforms (for example, Square Wallet). As a rule, retailers’ merchants and payment providers cannot track the buying ...

Abstract

Organizations and businesses alike are heavily using information technology in processing, relaying and storing sensitive business data and information in equal measure. Given the sensitivity and privacy of the information, information security is paramount. A security breach or cyber attack on an organization presents detrimental impacts on the operation of an organization. It is essential for information security officers as well as network administrators to adopt and embrace pro-active and preventive techniques of dealing with threats. Timely reaction and prevention of possible threats and attacks can be done by performing vulnerability assessments. It is also significant to model and ...

Identification Procedures Line ups and Show ups

The Lineup is a technique that is used in criminal investigations and is an act where the police shows an individual who has witnessed a crime, nevertheless the person is a victim or not, a line of people and require that the witness recognizes the perpetrator among them or not. Why lineup and not only showing the suspect to the witness? Science (cognitive psychology) and practice have proved that mental processes like attention and memory are quite relative and uncertain phenomena. Imagine that the witness saw a woman with blond short hair and green skirt quickly going out from ...

Denial-of-service attack

Denial of service attack is a form of attack on computer setup that is designed to cripple the all activities of the computer. It achieves this by flooding it with useless traffic. Denial of service attack exploits the limitation of TCP/IP protocols (Gupta et al, 2010). Examples of denial of service attack are ping of death and teardrop attacks. In the current era of technology there are increased advance in technology so as cybercrimes. Cyber crimes are become more sophisticated because of the advance in technology (Karake-Shalhoub et al 2010). Many people suffer greatly from cyber crimes and for ...

In this episode of Radiolab, Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad interview Jim Dickson and Albert Zinc, who tell us the story of Ötzi. Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by two German hikers about 10,500 feet up in the Alps. These two hikers had decided to head off the trail, moving away some 100 yards from the beaten track. This decision led them to discover Ötzi, a frozen corps lying face down high up in the Alps. The hikers' first thoughts were that they stumbled on a man who recently had a mountaineering accident. The body was extraordinarily well-preserved. ...

On a warm July 1984 night, an attacker broke into the apartment of Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, where the attacker sexually assaulted her. Later that same evening, the same attacker broke into another nearby apartment and sexually assaulted a second woman. At the time of the attack, Thompson-Cannino was 22 and attended college. She made a specific point to study the details of the attackers face so she could later accurately identify him to the police (Innocence Project). In August of 1984, Ronald Cotton was arrested for the rape of Thompson-Cannino. Thompson-Cannino had identified Cotton in a police photo lineup. In ...

Cloud computing has emerged as the future of networking recently. It eliminates the need to stack up expensive hardware components to form a company’s private network or storage space. The advantages of using cloud computing are can be summed up into its 1. Elasticity 2. Provisions to pay as you go 3. Reduction of in-house infrastructure liabilities and costs . Cloud computing encompasses three major delivery models which are 1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS). 3. Software as a Service (SaaS). Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enables users to rent special networking hardware ...

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Risks of using Internet as part of a Business Solution

Internet security concerns have clouded the performance of many e-commerce sites as well as various financial instruments based on web for very long. The biggest reason for such an annoying setback for Internet is the anonymity it is capable of providing the attacker. The perpetrators are hardly recognizable in the maze of ‘mirrors’ within mirrors and spoof IP addresses that are set up to hide the hosts of malwares, Trojans, worms, that cankers the utility of a web service. Any business providing services to clients via internet shall be open to a number web based security and ...

Social Engineering Concepts and Examples with Prevention Methods

Social engineering is one of the most critical aspects of cybersecurity since many attacks are arising from it rather than the traditional technical hackings. It is easy to manipulate people directly than to crack systems, thus makes social engineering the most used method of social attacks with an ever changing landscape in terms of methods of resolving it. This paper discusses two examples of social engineering and compares it to social engineering attacks view by two authors under reference and methods that could have prevented the attacks.

Examples and context of social engineering

The first example of security breaches caused by social engineering is stealing ...

Section 1: Foundation of the Study

The majority of business information is stored electronically, creating the need for a system of securing this information. As the systems providing computer and internet security becomes more and more complex, security is increasingly compromised. Interlopers and hackers continue to create new and more creative means of gaining entry to information stored on networks, and users are facing an increased number of security attacks. Surprisingly, despite the variety and amount of security risks, security tools designed to counter these are slow to develop appear for business consumption (Garcia-Teodoro et al, 2009). With the introduction of new technological trends, information technology ( ...

Introduction

Culture is a complex spectrum which consists of ideas, thoughts and feelings on one end and behaviors, values and beliefs on the other. Negotiations globally bring cultures to the forefront because of the impact that cultural relations have on negotiation. U.S negotiators have different ways through which they negotiate. This paper will discuss the differences and the similarities between U.S negotiators and the other cultures which shall be described in this paper.

Question 1

Preparation; here the negotiators are required to complete several key tasks before coming to the table. First and foremost, one has to keenly study the potential partners business. ...

The main belief behind the theory of self-defense as given by Judith Jarvis Thomson rests on the phenomena that a person must become liable to be attacked if somebody else is threatened by him/her considering that he/she is violating the rights of the defender who must not be attacked. Moreover, Judith also assumes that everyone as a human has a fundamental right that must be respected of not being attacked by the other person, but if this right is being violated then the other person loses this right of protection for himself. This means that if a person is being threatened of right ...

The debate on the liability of a product from an ethical position is a very controversial issue. Damages related to products are often a dilemma on who should take the responsibility. In the case of Mr. Shabeev, he did not perpetrate the attacks. However, he wrote the code that eventually led to the creation of the said virus. The virus, targeted towards Target Corp customers, caused irreparable damage not just to the company’s financial aspect but also its reputation as a trendsetter. While Mr. Shabeev could claim to have no dealings ion the actual attacks, he is solely responsible for the whole ...

1. List the five steps of the hacking process.

Answer: The five steps of the hacking process are: Reconnaissance, Scanning, Gaining Access, Maintaining Access and Covering Tracks.

2. To exploit or attack the targeted systems, what can you do as an initial first step to collect as much information as possible about the targets prior to devising an attack and penetration test plan?

Answer: To collect as much information as possible, we must follow the first phase of hacking, that is, the Reconnaissance. Sources like Internet searches, Social engineering, Dumpster diving, and Non-intrusive external or internal network scanning are ...

The steps in the business continuity planning process include: - Scope of the plan and business areas: This involves establishing the services that the organization must deliver. The mission and vision provide such information.

- Critical functions: This involves establishing and prioritizing the functions that facilitate product delivery in order to determine the extent of the likely loss of revenue.

- Dependencies between business functions: This involves identifying internal and external dependencies. Such include employee availability, organization’s assets, support services, suppliers, government services, etc.

- Acceptable downtime for a critical function: This involves identifying the impact of a ...

Cryptosystems have various challenges that render them vulnerable. Since the cryptosystem ensure data security and integrity, the weaknesses of such systems are very critical. The MD5 SSL has a critical vulnerability in that it is possible for one to create phishing sites that have valid SSL certificates. Such vulnerability is most probable using the HTTPS. In this case, the SSL certificates are made from an existing one using hash collision. Therefore, the users would think they are connected securely, and authentically while in actual reality they are connected to the attacker.

What the possible threats of such an occurrence? The ...

Eyewitness has gain support and emphasis in the corridors of justice today. However, it is not wise to rely entirely on their testimonies because at times misidentification is common. Lots of research has been done on this topic which is so controversial based on how reliable human memory is, factors influencing eyewitness at that time of event and possible factors that can distort the eyewitness perspectives.

One factor that has proven to be influencing eyewitness is the task of identifying faces. Difficulties arise from encoding of faces. Some faces are identical and it will be difficult for a person to ...

INTRODUCTION

Securing web server applications has become a vital process as the information being processed by web applications is very critical to customers, organizations, corporations and countries. They manage a wide variety of information including but not limited to social security numbers, financial information, and health records, national security information and academic data.

All these information is important to the owners; therefore, the web servers must secure the information at all times (Christ, 2007). Firewalls are doing an incredible job in protecting operating systems and common network layers. The application layer is what is left making web applications the prime target for ...

Introduction

Software information systems are vulnerable to many threats. These security threats can be caused by various reasons such as natural disasters, technical failures, unintentional acts such as negligence of the users, deliberate acts and management failures. These threats can have serious financial and privacy issues in the information system especially in a health care setting. Furthermore, the data of the patients can becomes mixed up due to the security issues. Additionally, computer viruses that affect the health care information systems are one of the most common forms of security threats that the information systems face.

Information security policies form the ...

Scanning in Windows is deeper than the scanning in Linux and Max operating systems. Most tools that are used for scanning and enumeration have the ability to explore deeper because of the fact that the scripts that are developed by the developers are able to establish null or authenticated session with all the current versions of Windows. This is not the case with Linux operating systems because of the fact that it is hard to establish null sessions. For this reason, it is hard to establish deep exploration. From the data sets, it is evident that the depth of ...

Introduction

Security systems are undergoing development with the development of cryptographic protocols that help to secure these communications channels. There have been extensive researches that have been carried out to come up with better security mechanisms that will secure information systems. A cryptographic protocol is a protocol which makes use of cryptography so that they are able to achieve their goals, these goals could include sending private or public keys over the network. There are protocols that are used for securing security systems. This paper will focus on two protocols, NRL analyzer and Bellare-Rogaway model (Tanenbaum, 2003).

NRL analyzer

How it works

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Internet Privacy is becoming more and more important to people as they spend more of our lives on the internet. While some search engines such as Google are providing a huge amount of amazing free services, people are all together concerned about how and where their private information is being used.

For years, tracking systems have been taking note of what you search and where you go on the internet without your consent. And today many people voluntarily divulge their personal details on and social networks and popular websites are being analyzed and tracked. Some of these tracking technologies include ...

The SQL injection (SQLi) is one of the most common threats to contemporary computer security. It is also one of the most successful threats because it is easy to execute and moderately hard to detect and prevent, so the success rates are high and the damaged caused by the attack is severe. Furthermore, there are no tools that can accurately detect and stop specific SQLi attacks, so developers are required to analyze the source code and resort to code-based defense strategies if they want to prevent unauthorized access to data. In the worst case scenario, an attacker can take ...

Spyware are a type of malware that are created solely for extracting personal user information as well as submitting the extracted information to their owner for their own use. Usually spywares are used to steal personal user information such as credit card number, password as well as track their computing habits. Crimeware refers to a category of malware that are specifically used to aid criminal activities. They are used in a variety of forms key being as email redirectors where malwares are used to intercept and relay outgoing emails to an attacker’s system. Also crimeware are evident in IM (Instant ...

Introduction

Security is a significant component that need to be integrated in any organization. It is important to have an assessment of vulnerabilities so that the solutions can be sought and implemented in a better way. With the popularity of the internet and computer systems use, there has been the rise of insecurity issues in many organizations which has called for the need to have measures to ensure vulnerabilities are sealed. This paper will focus on security of Amazon Company and will look at how the security posture of the company will be done and solved.

Foot printing information about Amazon

Amazon is a company that has established ...

I. The Global Crime Scene All crime is local but in today’s globalized world, some crimes can have a global impact. In fact, with the increased use of information technology along with the liberalization of the movement of people, resources and trade, there are some domestic crimes that are more conducive to being committed across borders than strictly within one. For instance, three common domestic crimes that are increasing global in nature are trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime. Trafficking refers to the smuggling or illegal movement of people or goods. While drug trafficking is perhaps the ...

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Hypothesis 1: Abortion is immoral In “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” (1973), Mary Warren supports an extremely liberal interpretation of abortion, wherein the act of feticide is allowable at all stages of the pregnancy and under all instances. Herein, Warren places these initial claims; one, that murdering innocent humans is wrong and two, “fetuses” are considered as “innocent human beings.” Using logical deduction, Warren deduces that fetuses are “innocent human beings.” Warren places an emphasis on the term “human being” as a “full-fledged member of the moral community.” To Warren, the “moral community” is regarded ...

Abstract.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA) are a subset of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), and they are used to automate the control and monitoring of processes and sets of processes. Such processes include industrial production lines, power grids, rail switching and other critical infrastructure. Traditionally, these systems were isolated and thus secure from cyber-attacks. However, modernization has led to increased complexity, interconnectivity, and digitization. In this regard, today's SCADA systems need to communicate and transfer data from one site to another via communication networks that are at times public e.g. The internet. This development has created security vulnerabilities for ...

Question One

The most ideal access control for accommodating these permissions in the ACME Inc Human Resource department is the role based access control. The Role Based Access Control approach to securing access to the Human Resource management system bases access control decisions on the functions that a particular user is allowed to perform. The approach is widely used for non military enterprises with several employees with different roles and functions (Ferraiolo, Sandhu, Gavrila, Kuhn, & Chandramouli, 2001). Role Based Access Control method of access control is ideal for these permissions since the users are categorized and assigned different roles in the ...