Essays on Reconnaissance

Information Security Threats

Introduction Information is one of the most important assets for many organizations, as it acts as a differentiator and provides a competitive advantage. Loss of information such as patent information, proprietary processes, or trade secrets could prove to be very detrimental to a business. While there are many threats to the information security, this report focuses on three of them, which are 1) Denial of service, 2) Privilege escalation, and 3) Backdoor. This report provides measures that address, block, or removes these threats. Information about tools, products, or services that mitigate these threats is provided in the report as ...

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The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils. Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

The Use of reading Cues to improve Learning Ability

Majority of pupils at the age of five have reading problems, and this makes them feel inferior among other students who are excellent in reading. However, teachers ensure that they do all they can to give the pupil the best learning environment by improving their learning skills as much as possible. This discussion will highlight reflection of teaching and learning, as well as reconnaissance on how well a learning problem can be identified.

Reflection of teaching and learning

Children are exposed to vast of reading material for them to develop their memories, but the most important thing is how well they can analyze what ...

the Movie Gettysburg The movie titled Gettysburg describes historical events during the American Civil War, namely the battle for the town, which took place on the city’s hills. This battle is generally known as the battle of Gettysburg. The main heroes of the movie are historical personalities General Lee and Colonel Chamberlain. Both of them led their soldiers to the victory, but only one succeeded in doing so. It is clear from the film, that Colonel Chamberlain is a highly educated person. He used to be a college professor in Maine, but the American Civil War could not ...

“Student’s Name”

“Institution Affiliation”

Introduction

In the past two decades, the growth of the internet has been paramount, providing one of the most important mediums of communication. Through the internet, users can send, receive, and share information. According to Statista (2016), the internet has 3.174 billion users as of December 31, 2015. Users have increased exponentially since 2010 with internet connection becoming a necessity for businesses and homes. However, growth in the number of users poses numerous challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), who face a large number of traffic traversing their network. Some of the challenges include Denial of Service (DoS) ...

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 ...

Technological platforms should be systems created with accurate systems well defined to perform given tasks. The success of any system should be based on excellent protection from attacks from within and outside the company. However, despite the protection that the managers may try to instill to the company, there would be chances for more attack to the system. Therefore, there are exclusive needs to protect the system of an organization from excessive malicious attack. There is need for considering all necessary measures that could be useful in protecting the systems. All possible techniques need to be pursued. Every form ...

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Swanson (1) avers that the uses of drones have both positive and negative uses for the use of drones in both commercial as well as law enforcement applications. However, Swanson is stating that with the absence of any actions by authorities, on the state and the Federal levels, to enact any policies or legislation to regulate any of the flights conducted by these “unmanned aerial vehicles” in America’s skies as these operators see fit. Federal authorities allowed more than 30,000 drone flights; police departments, for their part, have used drones to a low altitude of 400 feet, ...

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often synonymous to the remote controlled jet-like machines currently used by the military to conduct reconnaissance and stealth operations in major conflicts around the globe. Millions of dollars have been spent to produce these state-of-the-art machines in order to improve military operations in uncharted terrain. In recent years, manufacturers have managed to replicate the technology used by these million dollar machines and miniaturize them for commercial use. Many consumers use these drones for leisure or photography, but there are also groups using these drones for questionable activities like stalking, spying and even ...

Testing web penetration aspect with Kali Linux

Introduction With security issues of the internet becoming a major point of concern for many organizations, there is a need to have testing of the internet to check if there is sufficient security. This is equivalent to auditing the penetration of the organization. Penetration testing is a process where the vulnerabilities that have been identified are real threats or false. One of the methods that an assessment can make use is that of scanning tools which can show the vulnerabilities that exist in a given system. The penetration test would be conducted by trying to hack the given vulnerabilities just the way a ...

The United States of America was arguably the safest nation in the world until the 9/11 terrorist attacks the sent chilling messages. From henceforth, America and indeed Americans have had a suspicious approach to matters of security. It has consequently been in the nation’s interest to harness all of its intelligence agencies with the objective of working together in protecting Americans. In that vein, it is should be appreciated that all levels of governments including the federal, state and local governments have their unique roles to play in matters of intelligence. In brief, it is noteworthy that the complicated ...

UAV or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is an aircraft that can fly without an onboard human pilot. It is being controlled remotely by a computer or a pilot on the ground. There are numerous UAV shapes and sizes even characteristics and configurations. This type of aircraft started as a simple remote-controlled aircraft, but as time goes by, automatic control has been developed along with its increasing tasks including military operations and special applications.

The Evolution of UAV

The technology and idea of having an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle started and evolved from World War I’s Kettering Bug and then the World War II’s cruise missiles. Bill ...

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US Special Operation Forces (SOF) are elite military units affiliated to the United States of America with the ability to conduct a wide range of land, water and air missions behind the enemy lines under the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) commandant. Currently USSOCOM has deployed over 12000 of its 33000 special operators across the world half of whom are in Afghanistan and the remaining in 70 odd countries. The US SOF has the following strategic roles as mandated by congress and the department of defense in the fight against the war on terror. Foreign internal defense which enables ...

As the head of North Korean intelligence apparatus, I am about to broadcast a 15 days nationwide action plan, designed precluding economic folding, to assess how the US will respond to the 15-day exercise. The action encompasses six areas of intelligence discipline, which are OSINT, GEOINT, MASINT, HUMINT, SIGNT and Cyber collection.

OSINT (Open Source Intelligence):

Publicly assessable information will be searched and analyzed to assess US response and actions taken. OSIT has been a popular source by the intelligence community. Owing to, globally, newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and additional middling will be scrutinized. In addition, cyber espionages will also be assessed. Teams will be ...

Introduction

Identifying a videogames development company's network infrastructure entails recognizing the possible threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities of the system. However, the process does not end there, as the next step is to discover solutions either to prevent or mitigate the problem, depending on whether the network issues are already being experienced or not. Therefore, protecting data and system integrity is a crucial step that all companies using information technology must consider. This paper focuses on strategies on dealing with identified risks and vulnerabilities, including controls to mitigate possible network problems.

Strategies and Controls to Mitigate Attacks and Threats

Among the identified attacks and threats to the network system were reconnaissance, ...

Introduction

Computer networks are dedicated infrastructure setups that handle data, video, voice, file sharing, e-mail services, and remote access, among others, ensuring that these information and tasks are carried out correctly from one computer station to another. As companies' business transactions happen online, including employees' personal use of a company's network systems and the availability of many online resources, possible threats to network infrastructure becomes a living reality that companies must address to protect the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of information system resources. This paper is limited to discussion of possible attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities presented to this company, which is a videogames ...

Trojan Virus

A Trojan virus is a malware that performs malicious functions under the pretext of a desired action, and it can harm the computer or compromise security. At present, inventors of Trojans continue to release new variants, in order to see the virus remains ahead of detection and retain its continual grip on computers with the malware. Sinowal Trojan is among the most recent Trojans. Sinowal poses solemn threats to every person with an internet connection since it works secretly through a common infection scheme called drive-by downloads (Shiels, 2008). Internet users obtain the infection without recognition when they open a website that ...

Abstract

Although the methodology and technology of warfare had evolved together with human civilization, the main ideas of preparation, preemption, intelligence collection and overall awareness of enemy’s capabilities remain relevant today just as two thousand years ago. The aim of the current research is to investigate a specific issue of intelligence and surveillance, meaning the influence of the modern Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) on the aerial surveillance. In this context, a specific issue of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as means of surveillance collection is discussed in the framework of its benefits and possible challenges for the future intelligence and ...