Essays on Patches

In a bid to make their products more reliable, scalable and manageable, Microsoft protects its customers from the ever increasing cyber risks. The company has devised different methods that are specifically crafted to curb the known and unknown sources of cybercrimes and cyber security risks. This methods seek to protect customers’ information, hardware and software from attack by criminals and dangerous programs. The protective strategies are designed right from the development stages and are meant to be user friendly in order to be applicable by all customers and potential customers. The strategies include the User Account Control, System Updates, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Since the absence of anti-virus was not detected at an earlier time, there is a possibility that some portions of the system were already affected by the virus, especially when the system is engaged into activities which permits entry of foreign objects such as e-mails and online messages (Security Standards Council, 2010). The first thing to do, as compensation, is to limit the entry or the use of data to both local and foreign concerns. This is to prevent anymore spreading of possible virus to areas which are still uninfected by the virus. After that, alerting the people or ...

According to this article, the Arthurs agree with Laura Grey that agritourism is the next big crop for farmers, especially in Colorado. In Colorado, there exists a great prospective to promote agricultural producers and countryside communities by making extra income from customers who are enthusiastic to pay for countryside and agriculturally interconnected practices. According to 2007 Agricultural Census report, it is depicted that 33 million in agritourism revenue was generated by, only, 670 farms out of 37,000 farms. In 2002, the average farm was generating approximately $ 14,000 annually from agritourism and leisure, but their income went up ...

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Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI) is a public trading company with office locations in Montana, Brazil, Poland, Australia, Africa, China, Japan and Hong Kong. IDI has accounts of federal governments, state governments, and major market retailers. IDI operates a fleet of trucks and has a network of sub-contractors of freight, storage and delivery. IDI has been under severe pressure because of the competitive market to improve upon its delivery, route and vehicle fleet to reduce cost and increase profit. A high-level introspection and analysis revealed with the flaws ...

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Zero days presents a great amount of security risk to numerous organizations across the globe. The evolution and fast embrace of information technology by organizations and business in their daily operations have resulted in more advanced attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities. Zero-day vulnerability is a flow or security loopholes that exist in software or systems that are either unknown or have no security patches (Alazab et al., 2011). In most cases, the zero-day attack takes advantages of the exploits that exist in software that was previously not known. The exploit usually takes place the moment the vulnerability in the software ...

Introduction

This paper outlines the web security required for a brand new Windows PC for home use with Windows 10 operating system. The PC connects to the internet using existing internet connection. It will also detail the essential security software that is needed for the keeping the computer secure, the password policy for the home computer, the steps that one has to take to ensure that the online banking process is secure. It will also outline the guidelines that one has to discuss with a 13-year old son regarding operating a Facebook account.

Securing the home Windows PC

Home computing carries the risk of theft ...

Answer 1: Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is not a very robust and secure protocol. There are many free tools available which even naïve hackers can use to crack the security where WEP is used. Thus, with very simple programs and tools WEP keys can be cracked. Once done, the hackers can connect to the Wi-Fi network and even decode the traffic on this network (Stobing, 2014). Answer 2: Instead of WEP, we should use Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) or Wi-Fi protected access 2 (WPA2). The encryption which this protocol uses is AES/ CCMP which is very robust and ...