Essays on Hacker

The criminal case involved four players who are a C.E.O., a hacker, a stock exchange broker, and detective. All the four players are important in determining how the crime is executed and how the criminals can be found easily. The case is on the facts that there is an insider trading scheme that involves the C.E.O. and the stock exchange broker. The scheme is illegal and thus there is a detective involved who is investigation the case. In this case scenario, the C.E.O. is in charge of a company that trades in the NYSE as a securities broker. The ...

Insurance for Arab women migrants v their counterparts in their homelands

In the United States, Arab migrant women are part of an immigrant population from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) regions. Health insurance coverage for this group depends on their legal and income statuses. In essence, several thousand have gained coverage under the now threatened Affordable Care Act, with others covered under Medicare, Medicaid, or alternative sources of private insurance. This group majorly comprises of current U.S citizens of Arab origin (Amer & Awad, 2015). However, non-citizen Arab women migrants fall under the 21 percent uninsured residents. These individuals include both undocumented and legally present Arab immigrants. In essence, ...

Article Review

Introduction Digital Mammography is one of the most innovative, remarkable and feasible methods for both diagnosis and evaluation of breast carcinoma. Based on a current research by the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), the shift from conventional film based mammography to digital mammography has been associated with more life years gained (LYG) than film mammography (Van Ravesteyn, et al. 2015). In the current article, Bassett, Hoyt, & Oshiro (2010), have assessed and reviewed the quality evaluation criteria and process for digital mammography (DM). The key objective of Bassett, Hoyt, & Oshiro (2010), was to recognize potential quality ...

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 ...

Individuals lay the basis of a society where they accept other people and live with them. Social organizations and behaviors are molded according to society and people who shape society. A subculture can be termed as the meaning of styles outlined by youth as a symbolic form of resistance. People form society after getting influenced one of seven models and subcultures happen within society as a form of resistance. The formation of subcultures does not overcome potential benefits of society, but subculture opposes to the basic ideology and social normalization. Subcultures add to the variations of any society such ...

Introduction

Digital crimes include crimes committed on the internet as well as all types of crimes, perpetrated in the sphere of information and telecommunications systems. In this regard, the subject of the offense is all information resources and technologies, whereas the purpose of this violation is the criminal trespasses. In short, cybercrime regarding the non-legal intervention in the work of computers, software and computer nets as well as an unauthorized modification of any digital data refer to the legal categories, where the object of the crime is the information security, whereas the computer is the subject. If we consider cybercrime ...

Part 1

Today, malicious hackers are roaming on the internet with the intention of preying on unsuspecting web users by gaining access to web servers using various techniques, such as waterhole attacks and bait and switch. Bait and switch is a common method used today where users are told that they are downloading legitimate files, and briefly, they are, but it is then exchanged with a malicious item. Waterhole attacks occur when hackers “poison” the location that their targeted users normally meet, especially WI-FI hotspots. Defending against bait and switch attacks is the most challenging of the two in an organization ...

Question #1:

The purpose for a hacker to conceal their tracks in the hacking process is to avoid discovery of their actions by the officials such as the FBI. I believe the repercussions for a hacker who doesn’t adequately covers their tracks, eventually resulting in discovery by the government officials includes: jail time, felony records, and heavy fines. I also believe that if a hacker is prosecuted for hacking activities, they will have a criminal record which will follow them throughout their life which could prevent them from obtaining other opportunities such as certain jobs.

Question #2:

The Stuxnet internet worm was ...

Part A

Foot printing is very important in the process of information gathering for hackers given that is present them with the vital information about the target. Hacking is a complicated process that requires massive information gathering and understanding before an attack can be successful. As a consequence, foot printing is considered a significant part of the hacking process (Boyd, 2000). There are several ways through which hacker gain access to massive information about the target at the foot printing stage. The greatest source of information at the foot printing stage include: the target organization’s website, company directory, job boards, ...

Is Password Security Becoming Obsolete?

Is Password Security Becoming Obsolete? The use of passwords as entrance to secure sites is quickly becoming a thing of the past, as well it should, for a number of reasons. Passwords are generated by software programs and people to guard access to personal computers, websites, mobile telephones, and other types of technology. However, the users of technology are becoming more uncomfortable with the lack of security provided by passwords and with remembering all the passwords needed for such data as credit card numbers, health information, and bank accounts (Luukkonen, 2015). Advancing technology has provided users with the ability ...

As with any cyber phenomenon, hacking is a relatively recent phenomenon invented slightly over 5 decades ago. The period since then and up to this point saw new ways of hacking into different systems developed, deterrent acts enforced, and abusers arrested. The present state of the illicit occupation shows the great heights hacking, unfortunately, has achieved, as seen in it being applied for enjoying free phone calls or transferring bank funds. The occupation looks very developed, worse still, it is predicted to develop in the time to come. The human factor, unprotected systems, and technology development will keep feeding ...

Determine the importance of understanding the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) and Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference models from the perspective of an ethical hacker. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol reference model govern communications across different computers on the internet. The user gets to understand the process of packaging, sending, and receiving communication. The main TCP/IP protocols include HTTPS, HTTP, and FTP. On the other hand, the Open Systems Interconnection reference model plays the role of characterizing and standardizing communication between two computers on the internet. OSI helps guide vendors and network developers to ensure the ...

Introduction

If an employee with access to sensitive information was terminated, then the employee is considered as an insider threat. These insiders can cause three types of threats to an organization: Sabotage, Fraud, or theft of intellectual property (IP) or data using Information Technology (IT). IT sabotage uses IT to harm the critical assets of the organization. IT can be used to steal data or IP or also for espionage by insiders. Using IT to tamper data, addition, or deletion of data for personal gain or to perform an identity crime can be considered IT fraud.

Hacker’s Targets

In the present scenario, ...

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 ...

Hacking into a PC even if one’s own; has become considerably ingenious and requires a simple matter of following instructions even if the user is not giftedly skillful. There are also more than a few ways in which this hacking could be carried out, and all that’s needed is access to the right soft wares that could get the job done. The Lazy Method requires the use of a CD with a live .iso file, and all that remains is the booting of the file from the CD. The second method involves the breaking of the password ...

Introduction

The academic sector is increasingly being scrutinised because to its statues and significance in a world that is progressively becoming competitive and dependent on performance. Academic achievement can only be conceptualized in the context of its contribution to the realization of varied objectives in diverse economic sectors around the world. This paper examines the scope and extent of academic endeavours and the efforts that are currently being implemented to support academic achievement in institutions of learning. The reader should be able to reflect on issues and challenges that influence education and related activities in different environments. The information contained ...

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Introduction

Computer hacking comes as a direct result of advances in technology like the internet and social networking. The hacking activities range between illegal and legal and is often debated for its ethical and unethical nature. Computer hackers are talented people fascinated by computers and technology and mostly start at college and school level. Moral values and ethics of the hackers differentiate between good and bad ones (Xu, Hu & Zhang, 2013). The three categories of hackers are Black Hats, White Hats and Gray Hats. The common notion of ...

Background

As a fast-growing medical research and development company, nothing is more important to Information Assurance Research than the security of the company’s proprietary information and customer and employee data. I am concerned that the company’s sensitive information stored at Reston Virginia and the data conveyed via the WAN is not well protected from web-based application attackers. My proposal is based on research on various web-based applications security software in different online fora. I have also explored various studies on different security software and their effectiveness as well as affordability. My insight has also been drawn from customer ...

Introduction

The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that got discovered by Stefan Metzmacher, who works for Samba developers (Mimoso, 2016). Stefan has worked for Samba for a long period; since 2002 and he now works as a Samba trainer and consultant at SerNet. The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that affects various kinds of Windows operating system known as the DCE. The DCE is utilized by chairpersons around the globe to get to the most profitable resource on any Windows. The windows network is an Active Directory, which goes about as a system with advanced security watch permitting an association's ...

The central question in Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker’s Winner-Take-All Politics is why Americans so often seem to oppose programs or ideas that would directly benefit them. In the view of the authors, the American people should be overjoyed at things like the Affordable Care Act and increased regulation of the banking industry, but they are not. In the book, these two political scientists consider the reasons for this being the case. Moreover, they contend that Americans reason to be concerned about the fact that the wealth of the nation is becoming ever more concentrated in the ...

Network Security.

Network security is primarily the protection of data, files, and directories in a computer from unauthorized access. As a corporate network administrator, it is paramount to secure such records and foster client confidentiality. Any security breach/ attack affects the confidentiality and the integrity of the system. There are various types of network attacks which affect different organizations. A close-in attack is one of the most common types of attack. It is whereby a person tries to get a close physical contact with the network and is, therefore, able to access such data with an aim of modifying, gathering or ...

What many business majors fail to realize is that Algebra is absolutely crucial to their progression throughout their professional degree program. The reason that algebra is so vital to their business career strategy is that Algebra is utilized in many ways in the business world depending on which sector that you decide to work in for the long term. Where the knowledge of Algebra comes in is when you are tasked with the objective of solving equations in everyday problems that utilize Algebra. When we look Algebra in high school, we learned a great deal about how Algebra could ...

Nowadays computer is used everywhere. It is hard to imagine our life without computers, as they make it easier and more pleasant. The only thought that one’s computer may be hacked, makes people nervous. The Internet is another thing, which gave us a number of new opportunities. We can buy thing online, we can communicate with friends, make new acquaintances and even study and work in the Internet. Thus, computer and the Internet became two interrelated facts. However, is everything as easy and reliable as it seems? To answer this question let us consider the notion of computer ...

Women are not only limited in number in their fields, but they are also limited as to the fields they can fill. Most militaries still limit the occupations that allow women to occupy. For the most part, women are excluded from all combat and some combat-related fields. Traditional observation on women assumes that they do not want to be involved in combat, nor are they in a position to handle such occupations. Most people believe that men are more physically and emotionally suited for roles in combat. Suggestions of women participation in combat fields have variation cross-culturally, and have ...

Part A: Introduction

The report provides an overview of the career highlights and major events of the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. He was born in 1984 and after quitting the university, developed his website Facebook, Inc. and became its CEO in 2013. In 2010, he won the award of Person of the Year by Times Magazine. The report also identified that CEO’s personality is open to experience as he handled his company by himself by getting experience over the years. In addition, he is a transformational leadership. It is due to the fact that he not only inspires his employees, but openly ...

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 ...

The increase in taxes to those wealthy Americans will have a statistical impact on the growth of the economy and to its driving factors including the savings, investments, labor supply and the productivity growth. Having high taxes on the wealthy helps in financing more in investments that are found in different fields including those investments in the education, scientific research and infrastructure of which are critical to the growth of the economic prospects especially those in the middle class. It is possible because the high taxes on the wealthy leaves the country with much to spend on other main ...

It is an accepted fact nowadays that our current society is largely dependent on cyber technologies. Majority of people store their personal files and information online, do transactions over the Internet, and use the World Wide Web as one of their primary forms of communication. Aside from people, many companies and economies are powered by the internet. Thus, it can be said that the internet is an indispensable part of today’s society. Despite this fact, the World Wide Web is still largely unprotected due to its status as a free and autonomous system, free from any governing bodies ...

There four major categories of digital computer crimes. These are classified as crimes against the individual, crimes against the property of an individual, crime against the society and crimes against the government (Dalla and Geeta, 2013). Typically, cyber crimes consist of hacking and gaining illegal access to information from another person’s system. Digital crime against the individual is when a person is targeted by another person or persons and their personal data s approached by hacking or gaining access to email and password information. Commonly, these crimes consist of illegal activities such as drug trafficking that can target ...

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 ...

Jeffrey Zacks and Rebecca Treiman’s article, published in The New York Times magazine, as of April 2016, is an argumentative piece about how people will not be able to develop the skill of speed-reading effectively. Speed-reading is defined firstly as “to absorb text several times faster than normal, without any significant loss of comprehension,” (Zacks and Treiman). The message is that several companies that promise to improve the customer’s ability to speed-read are deceptive. Scientific research is not able to support the claims that those companies make. The writers are actually both professors of psychological and brain ...

Incident Report Planning

Incident Response Planning Technological advancement can be beneficial to organizations, as it provides fast and easier way of dealing with every day operations. However, due to the same advancement of technologies, there are scenarios that can put the organization to circumstances that may breach essential information of the organization. Additionally, it can cause firewall breaches, malware, or virus outbreaks, and other internal cyber-attacks. These events call for the need of incident response (IR), as it is encompasses essential protocols that will address the occurrence of any security breach. The goal of this study is to present the significance of ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/sorry-you-cant-speed-read.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Jeffrey Zacks and Rebecca Treiman’s article is an argumentative piece about how people will not be able to effectively develop the skill of speed-reading. Speed-reading is defined firstly as “to absorb text several times faster than normal, without any significant loss of comprehension,” (Zacks and Treiman). The message is that several companies that promise to improve the customer’s ability to speed-read are deceptive. Scientific research is not able to support the claims that those companies make. The writers are actually both professors of psychological and brain sciences. One of the scientific articles that they refer to ...

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

Through their activities, commercial organizations generate waste that contributes to climate change. Although effort is being made to limit human impact on the environment, the commercial waste is still one of the major problems for the environment that results into climate change. Electric energy is an important resource that is wasted across most commercial organizations. Further on, the wasted resources facilitate climate change. This paper argues that commercial organizations’ wasted electric energy contributes to the climate change.

Body

Commercial organizations are the institutions that carry out activities that imply selling products or services. Their activities developed for satisfying market’s ...

Implementation of Authentication Process

The project described focuses on the deployment of WLAN in the school environment as the key aspect of technology application in the education sector both in the primary and secondary schools. The potential user users of WLAN, in this case, are the school non-teaching staff, teachers, and the students.

Probable WLAN Risks

Likely WLAN attacks can be grouped into the passive and active attack. The passive attack will consist of unauthorized access to the network assets with the purpose of traffic analysis. This kind of attack is always not easy to detect because the data remains unaffected and this make the emphasis ...

Management

2016-04-01

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 ...

What constitutes an “incident”?

An incident is described as a danger to policies relating to PC security. What is Incident Response (IR)? It is a constructed path that finds the problem through to the conclusion of the problem. The IR may involve situations that:

Decide if a situation is present

Offers fast acknowledgment and quarantine of the problem Finds and discusses the issue Discards a non-unified explanation Comes up with real facts regarding the problem Decreases issues with organizational networks Decreases harm to the business or company Fixes regular performance Control society’s views on the issue Offers permission to proceed against criminals Teaches higher administration Ensures the ...

Both Fargo and Mr. Robot have been discussed in the media spotlight as two television shows being ground-breaking, not only for their storytelling and scriptwriting, but due to the sophisticated cinematography and sound that they incorporate. These elements add a dramatic flair to the shows, which infuses them with meaningful depth. In order to emphasize the importance of these characteristics, the current paper explores the cinematography and sound design present in both Fargo and Mr. Robot. Considering the plot of the show, it is worth stating that the protagonist of it is a young technical engineer, responsible for cyber ...

In 2014, JP Morgan Chase Bank experienced a data breach whereby 83 million customer accounts were compromised in what was deemed as the largest data breach in America. The hack affected 76 million American households, which were approximated to be 67 percent of the total households in America. The attack, announced in the month of September, was uncovered by the bank’s cyber security team in July 2014, but was not contained till mid-August. The hackers stole customers’ names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. It was reported that other personal information such as login details, social security ...

In the current assignment, I will compare the healthcare systems of US and UK with respect to the following parameters:

Healthcare systems for Children In United States, healthcare for children is provided through insurance under the program called Children's Health Insurance Program. The funds for this program areprovided by a joint effort between the state and the federal governments.In UK, NHS is in charge for providing healthcare to British citizens and healthcare and medicines is free for children up to the age of 16. Contribution is deducted from the wages of the parent. However, some firms also offer private insurance to their employees as a job benefit.

Healthcare systems for Unemployed

Unemployed people in United States are covered under the Federal-State Unemployment Insurance ...

Morgan C. Culbertson was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for developing and intending to use an Android application that enables one to take control of other Android devices and phones. He pleaded guilty in a court of law early December 2015. The 20-year-old University student apologized to the users whose privacy might have been compromised by his application. Morgan C. Culbertson was a student at Carnegie Mellon University and was popularly known as a talented software designer and developer. He has been developing applications for Android phones since he was in high school. According to authorities, Morgan C. Culbertson ...

The Internet. Hacking. Power. Nowadays, these three words are closely connected to each other. In the age of digital technologies, the Internet is an essential part of everybody’s life, each of its areas. It significantly eases access to information, but at the same time opens a question about its security. Basically, the Internet and our computers know everything about us; our private life is in much less safety comparing with precedent times. If desired, a person with a number of appropriate skills can learn everything from our preferences to numbers of credit cards; such person is called a ...

Operations security is technically a procedure or a process of classifying, evaluating, and controlling pertinent data and information of an organization. Indeed, it is everyone’s responsibility to protect and secure our personal information to others. According to a review report, operations security is a fundamental instrument for viewing any operations or activity that may pose harmful outcomes to your accounts. It provides necessary risk assessments and countermeasures against such threats and coercions about a particular claim or rights. There are several ways on how operation securities can be established. One common example is that of protecting the country’ ...

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Abstract

Working long hours has become an increasingly prevalent trend in industrialized countries. However, this habit may impact individuals’ mental and physical well-being negatively by causing stress, fatigue, depression, and by increasing the risk of stroke and premature death. The present report was completed at the request of a well-known advertising company and its purpose is to illustrate the potential benefits of implementing a policy which would help reducing the number of working hours, and making recommendations on how such a policy should be best implemented.

Introduction

Current legislation in most industrialized countries establishes an upper limit of 40 working ...

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, ...

As the nation and world progressively go online to work, play, and communicate with one another, computers and cyberspace have increasingly become targets and tools of criminal activity. To be sure cybercrime has quickly grown to be one of the major challenges facing police and law enforcement officials. The television series CSI: Cyber attempts to portray how a team of special FBI anti-cybercrime agents would investigate and arrest the cybercriminals that haunt cyberspace. As in all television police dramas, the acts and actions that take place on the show are a mix of truth and fantasy. However, since the ...

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Problem Definition 3 Economic Theories 3 Analysis 6 Conclusion and Recommendations 12

Bibliography 14

Are the Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer Still Today Introduction Nowadays there is a lot of discussion whether the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in the modern world. The answer to this question lies in the very understanding of poverty. Various economic schools employ different approaches when describing the causes of poverty. Therefore, they give different answers to the question mentioned above. Some of them think that the statement about the enrichment of the rich and the impoverishment of ...

I. Introduction Anonymous is a loose association of hackers, cyber-activists, and Internet protesters who share a common interest in Internet freedom, anti-authority and the use of information technology and irreverence as a tools to realize their goals. Since its first appearance over a decade ago, Anonymous has perpetrated some of the world’s most infamous cyber-attacks and Internet disruptions including the February 2011 intrusion of the Internet security firm HBGeary, the April 2011 hack of Sony, and its current campaign to destroy the Internet capabilities of the Islamic State. II. History While the exact beginnings of Anonymous are only ...

Literature Review of Security of RFID and GPS Devices

Introduction The deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) and global positioning system (GPS) is on the rise across several industries. RFID is used in traditional applications such as assets and inventory tracking. Presently, RFID technology is used in security services such as RFID embedded credit cards and electronic passports (Plunkett, 2012). RFID technology uses radio waves to identify objects and people. RFID devices read information contained in a wireless device commonly known as ‘tags’ from a distance without any physical contact. In a typical RFID communication, a clear line of sight is required. Although RFID technology was available from ...

Computer crime

The world has become impossible without computers. Nowadays it is a must to have at least one computer at home for your personal use and the other one at work. Information technologies are making significant changes in our society. Information has become a commodity that can be bought, sold or exchanged. This is the main reason why so many computer crimes appear. With every passing day we become more defenseless to malicious computer viruses and new computer hacking which are difficult to fight with. Hacking may cause a variety of damages to our society, especially to people`s personal ...

Question one

Hacker subculture is a collection of programmers with exclusive technological expertise and knowledge on online activities, which is a development of the hacking expertise that only relied on devices. The hackers in the subculture possess unique online expertise that assists them in accessing other persons’ or organizations’ computers, and systems to gain control and deny the owner access (Taylor & Fritsch, 2011).The people are unique on how they drive their activities.

One of the major elements that drive the hackers is that they are obsessed of online activities. They believe that they should spend most of their time on the ...

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

For the purpose of the presentation, the company that will be the focus of this project is Amazon.com. Its central offering is online shopping where consumers are able to search for the items they’d like to purchase online. They are also able to pay for their purchases online and have the items delivered to their home. In this e-business, the categories of information that may need applications of cryptography are the users’ or consumers’ passwords and their credit card or checking account numbers.

Feasible Attacks

Some of the methods that hackers can use to attack e-commerce websites such as Amazon.com ...

Abstract

Hacking has been on a growth trend due to increase in awareness of hacking techniques and exposure to information sources on the internet. Hackers have now easy access to personal data of worldwide users of the web. Also, through the advanced technology, they tend to take control of several confidential matters of either a state or it may be an organization. These hackers have been classified into different categories which include white hat hackers, the black hat hackers, the grey hat hacker and the list goes on. Hence, hacking has been a source of great destructions in many places and has continuously ...

Higher education has been a subject under a lot of discussion by people regarding its worthiness. There are questions on whether higher education is worth the price. They say that higher education enable students to graduate and get jobs with high salaries (Graff & Birkenstein, 2009). I say that it is true and this is evidenced by the fact that many high-paying jobs require high levels of education. People with high-paying jobs include doctors, engineers, surgeons, radiologists, lawyers, pilots, and pharmacists. These jobs require acquiring a high level of education. I think that higher education is worth the price because the amount of ...

Question One:

PDAs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, most cell phones, and other data devices are miniature computer systems designed to be highly mobile. Describe how such devices could alter the typical investigative procedures taken to collect information for the purpose of processing a digital crime. Processing digital crime usually follows a pre-determined investigative procedure. This process is referred to as a digital forensic process. The digital forensic process constitutes a three-step procedure involving acquiring the digital evidence, an analysis of the evidence and a comprehensive report on the analyzed evidence. In the past, when a digital crime was thought to have been committed, the first response ...

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 ...

Socially acceptable behavior is defined through the values that shape in the society, and even by the cultural norms. Acceptable behavior concerning to the internet, and networks is not similar to the normal acceptable standards. Hacking is a security breach and the consequences of a hack are eventually a moral predicament of right or wrong.

The actions of hackers can be considered socially acceptable when the degree of the actions of good and bad hackers is measured on the same scale as per hypothetical background of a moral problem, and evaluated with moral legalism. Few instances in which illegal actions taken by a ...

Introduction

While information warfare has been around since the first armies discovered the importance of gathering and using information to gain an advantage over an opponent, its incorporation of cyberterrorism methods is a completely new development. The basic model consists of an attack against an opponent’s information infrastructure, such as a computer network, to intimidate or threaten in furtherance of a political or social objective. Ostensibly, the attack is committed by a terrorist group of their own accord but the reality is that the group is sponsored, equipped or otherwise assisted by a nation-state who cannot directly initiate the attack due to legal or ...