Essays on Attack

Big Switch is a medium-size sales organization operated by 100 employees with annual turnover of 10$ million. It has a number of departments including sales with 30 employees while other 70 employees are spread across Finance, Operations, Human Resources, Marketing, Technology and corporate office in 10 offices in United States. Big Switch network consist of a backbone, campus, data center, branch/WAN and Ethernet edge. Due to recent security breaches in the campus network Big Switch desires an infrastructure that will provide sufficient security for its operations.
Acting on mandate as a network analyst, I will design a network infrastructure

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Introduction

Structured Query Language (SQL) injection is a code injection technique used in requesting, deleting and updating information from databases. Therefore, it is one of the main web attack mechanism used by hackers to steal data. This attack allows the hacker to inject SQL commands into allowing them access data in a database, as it takes advantage of improper coding in the web applications. This kind of attack bypasses firewalls and endpoint defenses, because web based forms must allow access to databases so as to give some sort of response.

Impacts of SQL

SQL injections pose a serious threats to database servers in

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DoS and DDoS attacks A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attack intended to close down a computer or network by making it unreachable to its intentional users. These attacks have achieved by spilling over the aimed computer or network with traffic, or with distribution of information that activates a crash. In both cases, the DoS attack restricts legitimate users to use the service and computer. There are two common ways of DoS attacks that are flooding services and crashing services. Flooding means, the system receives excessive amount of traffic for the server to buffer that cause system to slow

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

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Background

Nuclear attack is a serious issue that even countries with superior weapons such as United States do not want to imagine. It can result into a horrific devastation which could lead to the loss trillion dollars in damage and even plunging the word economic into a deep economic crisis. During the presidential debate of 2004 US campaigns, both then the President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry agreed that a nuclear terror attack was biggest worry on national security threats. During the September 11, 2001 terrorists attack on US, terrorists demonstrated the desire to have mass causalities.

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Annotated bibliography

Bodden, V. (2008). The 9/11 terror attacks. Mankato, Minn: Creative Education.
Bodden discusses events that culminated to the terror attack of 9/11. He further describes the relationship between U.S. and the Middle East as well as, the global response after terror attack and how the attacked transformed the world.
Bolton, M. (2008). U.S. national security and foreign policymaking after 9/11 : present at the re-creation. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
In his book, Bolton has analyzed the 109th congress of Dec 2004 that was passed signed under President Bush: Intelligence Reform and intelligent Prevention Act (IRTPA). The book is

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The security of both the servers and Workstations which run on Windows environment has been a key challenge for institutions, companies and even private entities. Different technological companies have tried to come up with security protection software which will guarantee maximum protections to both servers and the workstations. It is the wish of each and every chief information security officer to have 24x7 security support at the time.
Kaspersky endpoint security for Windows is the most appropriate security solution both servers and workstations which run on Windows environment. This security software was developed to meet the business technological changes

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Sony took a deliberate move to shut down their PlayStation because of an external intrusion which targeted to cause a denial of service to their client. This fatal attack took place in mid April 2010. According to Molina (2011), the attacker intended to affect the entire Sony PlayStation network. The Sony Corporation decided to shut down both the entertainment service Qriocity and the PSN. The move was taken to facilitate room for in-depth investigation to ensure secure and smooth running of the PlayStation (Molina, & Down, 2011).
The whole issue started when the network of the Sony PlayStation started to

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consequences and how to defend against it
Our world changes on a rapid speed and new dangers come with it. As humanity starts to use a computer on a regular basis for almost every aspect of life like pleasure, communication shopping and exploring new dangers appeared. Nowadays we have plenty of things our ancestors have no clue, like internet, cellphones, computer viruses and spoofing.
Spoofing is the name for an attack when one party pretends to be someone else. The most common spoofing attacks are MAC-spoofing, ARP-spoofing, IP-spoofing, DNS-spoofing and e-mail spoofing. Let’s take a look at each

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Introduction to Security: Defending Against Attacks

Introduction to Security: Defending Against Attacks

Introduction:

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

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Introduction

Keeping the passwords secure is one of the most prioritized security measures that people need to take. An average user usually needs to remember 4-5 passwords at a time and needs to change them frequently. What most people do not understand are the consequences of their password being stolen or hacked.

Common Password Attacks

- Physical Security Breach: this is the most critical; type of password attack. There are special key-loggers that may be software based or hardware based. These key-loggers can easily trespass any security and encryptions.
- Sharing unintentionally: Most people share their passwords over the internet. They are not

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Article analysis

Japan-the dominant power in Asia had developed hatred for nations that had colonies in the Asian mainland and pacific and these include the United States, Portugal and France. For this reason, Japan wanted to substitute these colonies with its own and form the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” To achieve this, Japan was prepared to go to any extent including war citing the war in china in 1937. The author’s point is that the United States resolution to resolve the outstanding difference that existed between them and Japan in 1941 bore no fruits. Instead, Japan continued to occupy

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(Study Program)

The web provides a platform for interaction between different types of web-users such as organizations, employees, customers, businesses, etc. Web users use HTML to interact with web applications that reside on web servers. The use of web traffic was initially designed to allow interaction through legitimate messages. However, with the change in technology, criminals often use such type of interaction to compromise security weak points. Web applications are, therefore, prone to the different type of web attacks. Some of the web attacks are as follows:
- Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
XSS attacks are web-based attacks that involve

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Introduction

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

Background

The attack of 9/11 raised

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Introduction

According to the American hHeart aAssociation, heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), is when the heart occurs when one or more of the vessels (coronary arteries) that supply blood to the heart get (Coronary arteries) closedobstructed, and the blood is unable tocan’t reach the heart muscle, causing which cause the muscle to maldysfunction function (AHA, 2007). There are two major risk factors that can cause a patient have two risk factors to cause heart attack; which they are high serum cholesterol level represented also known as as hyperlipidemia and high blood pressure represented also known as hypertension. The

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1.0 Introduction
Information security is very crucial especially for organizations whose information can be accessed through computer network. As network administrators try to set up security systems for data and information for such organizations, hackers and other cyber criminals also tries on how they can get the right of entry into the same systems illegally. Port scanning is used by both administrators as well as the hackers though for different intentions. Port scanning is thus one of the popular approaches used by administrators to examine or investigate information system security, penetration testing. It legally tries to break into the

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

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Paper Due Date

Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 shocked the globe and was considered as the beginning of the new war that came into history as World War II. This global disaster became the most devastating and tragic event in the world history and the memory of the Second World War continues to be historians’ and researchers’ concern. Although USA proclaimed its neutrality during the war, soon after this American soldiers also were forced to become involved in World War II. It had taken two years after the outbreak of the war before “the day of infamy” changed Americans.

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“We should never have entered the war against Germany. The Germans were no threat to us. We had been attacked by Japan and that's who we should have gone after, no matter what!”

The following lines give a backdrop of the statement.

This is a statement thought by many Americans after the Second World War. The Americans initially maintained neutrality in the war. The war started in the year 1939 with the attack of Poland. The main powers fighting in the war were –Axis power and the Allied power. Axis power consisted of Germany, Italy and Japan. The Allied powers were Soviet Union, British and France. The Axis

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Before I go to the event, I looked up an explanation what the intelligence community means and what CIA, NSA, or any other intelligence communities usually do. Also, he clarified that not every foreigner is a security risk for those organizations. Because intelligence communities are the closest organizations that face many kinds of terrorism, threats, and other dangerous situations, I thought that those organizations are tired of countries and private organizations that continue to try to attack the United States. However, General Hayden said that attack is attack and foreigners are foreigners, which means that there are no stereotypes

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The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) was established in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) to facilitate international police cooperation. Interpol’s primary focus is on public safety and battles corruption, drug trafficking, child pornography, human trafficking, weapon smuggling, war crimes, genocide, computer crime and intellectual crime among others. It is politically neutral. Its charter has forbidden it from undertaking activities or actions of a religious, military, political, racial matters and it is strictly forbidden to involve itself in such matters.

Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in East Africa (Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania)

Al-Qaeda has recruited members and had their operations in Africa as a whole and in East

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- Introduction:
Network security forms the basis of safe and private data management in modern computer networks. Network security is the elementary problem of today’s computer and communication networks in the presence of vast variety of spams, viruses and internet threats. Network security provides the solution to such problems of privacy violation and unauthorized access to personal and confidential data by implementing the laws and rules which reduce security violation significantly. Network security evolution is a continuous process which has evolved since the invention of first virus and it will keep on evolving as new types of viruses are

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Religious studies

Most of the events of the movie take place in the crumbling, yet beautiful hilly city of Nablus. Nablus is a city in northern West Bank where Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli security forces exchange gunfire on a regular basis. Nablus is at the heart of Israel- Palestine conflict and Abu-Assad, the director of the movie, was right about shooting the movie in Nablus.
The film focuses closely on the process of recruiting the suicide bombers and the tactics used by terrorist groups to prepare people to carry out the suicide attacks. The film highlights the deception and faulty

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Abstract

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

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

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It was the morning of December 7, 1941 when a very large fleet of Japanese fighter planes covered 2000 miles and launched a strike on the U.S. military at the Pearl Harbor near Hawaii. The military saw 20 naval vessels, 8 enormous ships, and almost 200 airplanes crumble before their eyes during the 2 hours of the attack. 2000 American soldiers and sailors took their last breaths on the Harbor during the startling assault, and the incident left close to 1000 military men wounded. The Pearl Harbor incident was an attack on one of the strongest entities in the

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The scripture discuss about the righteousness .The sons of God are to keep peace among themselves and preserve the rights of the church. Believers are required to give aid to brethren who live in the east that are in urgent need.
Sons of God are encouraged to be strong just as the Turks and Arabs even after being attacked them eventually conquered the territory of Romans. Christ protects the Christians and those that destroy them, and their churches the faithful of God will much more widely attack them.
The person that wrote this document was a Christian leader because

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America on the War on Terror

America and its supporters indicate that the War on Terror is justifiable under international law and the fact it intended for the paralysis of the United States, if not its total elimination. According to Yoo and Ho (2003), the attacks designed to eliminate the current military and civilian leadership status of the country with one hit and disrupt the entire country’s functions with the attack. Al Qaeda, who had claimed responsibility for the attacks, wanted to influence America into changing its Middle Eastern policy through the attack. President George W. Bush then stressed in one of his speeches

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Global Conflict and Security: Nuclear Proliferation

Introduction
Nuclear weapons are considered to bring harm and destruction to nations, bringing endless deaths and trauma to citizens. However, Kenneth Waltz and Scott D. Sagan argued that, the existence of nuclear weapons provides safe reliance to the nation rather than having no nuclear weapons. Kenneth advocated existence of nuclear weapons for this brought prestige to nations and enemies would not dare to attack. He states that wars would be avoided by much consideration of powers a nation would hold; if the opponent country were weak, they would attack and win. Nuclear weapons are sources of peace, Kenneth states.

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The September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks revealed the weaknesses present in the US national infrastructure for public health. Response efforts lacked the unified command and integrated communications required for large-scale response (Khan, 2011). Moreover, information that was necessary and important for decision making was not amicably shared among the public health agencies. The first responders from the public health agencies lacked the appropriate training and knowledge on disaster management. Additionally, equipment required in their roles was inadequate, and extremely in low supply. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rescue workers coming from New York City

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Proposal for the current issue in my field research project

There has been an increase in incidents involving digital cyber attacks worldwide. Most of the databases of corporations are targeted by criminals since they contain sensitive company information, which obtained can be used against the company. Hackers normally attack the databases to acquire sensitive information such as credit card numbers and other personal information of unsuspecting customers and use it to commit internet fraud.

Article:

Perlroth, Nicole, and David Gelles. "Russian Hackers Amass Over a Billion Internet Passwords." The New York Times. The New York Times, 5 Aug. 2014. Web. 15 Nov. 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html
A Russian crime was able to

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Information Technology Security

Information Technology Security

Q1: Describe in your own words the differences between steganography, digital watermarking, and digital rights management.

Advances in the field of technology have helped a lot in the drastic shift from traditional media to digital media while ensuring information security. These digital media include Digital Rights Management (DRM) methods Steganography and like Digital Watermarking. DRM helps in ensuring data security and has a varied array of systems. While DRM includes several methods like Encryption, Public/Private keys, Digital Certificates and Hashing, Steganography and Digital Watermarking are just one of the methods under DRM – Watermarking . Watermarking is a type of information hiding in order to protect intellectual property and insert a copyright indication within

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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to make a battle analysis of Pearl Harbor and look at the possible alternate outcomes using intellectual standards. Would the Second World War end differently if U.S. hadn't intervened? There are different facets to Pearl Harbor and how those tangents could have shaped the war in a different way. The paper looks at the weaker side of US military and how the Japanese took advantage of that.

Introduction

Background
The United States and Japan had been inching towards a war for decades. By 1938, the US remnants were desperate for humanitarian aid and this

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Introduction

While on his way to Hiroshima, it was around 7:30 a.m. when Captain William Parsons inserted the detonator along with the explosive charge into the bomb. It was around 8:16 a.m. (Japanese time) when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima over Dr. Shima’s Clinic. The glowing fireball had a temperature of about 50,000 degrees. Soon after this attack, another major city of Japan was attacked. It was basically the idea of General Leslie Groves, General Farrel and Admiral Purnell to launch two atomic bombs on Japan; the first bomb would demonstrate power and the second would tell the

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ABSTRACT

The rapid growth in information and communication has made people interconnected than ever before. Online activities are increasingly demanded on a daily basis whether in the office, in conference halls or while on the move. The activities range from information search, file sharing or report delivery and online purchases. Wireless network connection provides an option for people to be interconnected wherever they are even in rural settings. The appropriate wireless network for an office infrastructure is Wireless Local Area Network. This network type allows employees to interact seamlessly in the office setting while on stationary locations and on the

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Abstract

In this thesis, the security concerning the near-field communication and its applications will be investigated. A thorough risk assessment is performed on the threats, attacks and the fraud scenarios related to NFC. It goes on to argue against the statement as per the standard that NFC is safe by its design, because it works in close proximity only. It discusses the possibility of eavesdropping along with other possible hack attacks. The impact of the attacks is analyzed and the best possible solutions are discussed. It goes without any debate that the first and the foremost authentication that needs to

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

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Abstract

The topic of wireless Security issues in pervasive computing is a very dynamic area given that the technology keeps on changing. The change in technology comes with different challenges especially when it comes to integration of two or more technologies to satisfy human needs in life. Pervasive computing(PC), for instance, can represent an entry point for many of attacks.It can compromise users’ data, crash the complete system, render services unavailable, and possibly result to the loss of property and even lives. This paper examines and reports various security concerns in wireless security within the context of PC. The

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Self-defense is an act of validation carried out during a court session, in which the accused (defendant) must present strong evidences to counter the physical injury claims of the victim. There are four elements of self-defense, namely: (a) provocative execution of physically harmful act, (b) the imminence of harm, (c) the level of force, and (d) objective certainty of fear or death threat. Laws claiming self-defense against violent charges may vary depending on the jurisdictions, and may require further presentation of more than one element of self-defense introduced for further proof of physical provocation.
Provocation element determines whether the

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A Rhetorical Analysis

In order to have a solid ground for rhetorical analysis, this paper has chosen a particular angle of collective memory as the artifact to be studied. Because collective memory deals with a memory of an event shared by a certain group of people, it is only fitting that we examine an event of national importance, something that had marked in the history of America and the World. One event that falls into that category is the 9/11 incident. Thus, in this paper, we will try to analyze a collective memory by dissecting the rhetorical appeals and tools used in

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