Essays on Attacker

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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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).

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Misti Lee SCHNEIDER, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. The CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION POLICE DEPARTMENT, an agency of the City of Grand Junction; Bill Gardner; John Camper; William D. Baker; John A. Zen; Rick Dyer, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, and John and Jane Does, 3-10, in their official and individual capacities, Defendants Nos. 12-1086, 12-1115 (US App. June 5, 2013) Facts The person, Lee Schneider called 911 in order to have assistance with her son who was making noise and disturbance in the neighborhood. The officer name Coyne responded alongside other officer, and the leading official in this regard notified the mother that ...

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ISSC456 American Military University I. Introduction. The use of wireless network has increased due to its low cost and accessibility. Many businesses have switched to the use of wireless networks because of convenience and the ability of their employees having access to data while on the road. Although it is convenient, it does have some vulnerabilities. There are several modes of unauthorized access to wireless networks such as man-in-the-middle attacks, Denial of Service (DoS), identity theft (MAC spoofing), network injection, etc. With an increase of unauthorized access to networks, there are several security measures administrators can ...

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Software security is a concept of protecting software from a malicious breach. The main objective of software security is to assure proper functioning of software without threats to privacy and individuality. Technology and industry experts have accepted the significance of this undertaking, but the awareness about handling such issues still lacks appropriate solutions. Software security is a novel field of the computer world that started as early as 2001. Software security is an extensive system that is not constrained to a security mechanism or access control. It includes an appropriate design impossible for intruders to contravene. Perfect software always beholds robust security designs. ...

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Permanent control over the work of local network, which is a fundamental of any corporate network, is needed to maintain it in working condition. Control - a necessary first step that must be done in the management of the network. Given the importance of this function, it is often separated from other functions of management systems and implemented by special means. Such division of control functions and actually management is useful for small and medium-sized networks, for which the installation of the integrated management system is not economically sensible. The use of autonomous means of control helps the network administrator to ...

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What are the different Vulnerable Points in an E-commerce Environment?

An e-commerce environment has many vulnerable points that attackers can get to the system. One of the points of attack is the channel of connection between the client and the ISP provider. The attacker can tap this point and make an attack on the connection. The attacker can intercept the communication between the user and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and use security threats like spoofing to get data from the client. The client will lose money in the process. Another point of vulnerability is the ISP networks. There could be sniffer ...

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The oppression of the LGBT community, as well as their denial of civil rights, has become a commonplace fixture in today’s society. Many people see them as different, or abnormal. They see no reason to provide them with the same basic rights, such as marriage or parenting, that straight people are provided. Some feel so extremely about the LGBT community that they harm members, actions known as hate crimes, in order to instill fear, or set an example. The LGBT community is gaining progress in many separate states concerning their civil rights, but it appears that where progress is ...

Introduction

Almost everyone loves to enjoy a weekend getaway in a secluded place once in a while. Such a getaway was what formed the foundation of James Dickey’s novel “deliverance”. The novel features four middle-aged city men (Ed, Drew, Lewis and Bobby) who go rafting and encounter death of a colleague, a broken limb, sodomy and other tough challenges (Dickey). The theme of deliverance is brought out through the character of Ed who takes over leadership and leads his friends to safety. According to Dickey, deliverance refers to the discovery of adventure, departure from the boredom of a routine lifestyle. It implies the transition from ...

Technology surrounds us in various forms, and we accomplish results that would have been highly impossible without the commonly used technology, the Computers. As we become more familiar and assimilated to the computers, their flaws become our weaknesses. Every computer system runs on an operating system such as Windows, Linux, or Mac OS, and these systems can be prone to threats from attack sources, which exploit the weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Windows and Linux have their own advantages and disadvantages; however, their vulnerabilities cannot be ruled out. This paper discusses the differences of Windows and Linux vulnerabilities and a few methods ...

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 that implements VLAN segments, ...

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 down and ...

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 of life forms. There ...

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 ...

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 become ...

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 one of ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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One of the most controversial issues of our time is connected to women, or rather, to their rights. This issue is about the moral right of every woman to do the abortion only according to her own choice. But not too many women and even men agree with this right to choose. Many of them think that it isn’t moral permissible to do the abortion because the fetus has “soul”, or maybe it’s alive or any argument like that. No matter about the desires or feeling of the pregnant woman, her right to do absolutely she wants ...

- 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 ...

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INTRODUCTION The poor have always had to struggle throughout the generations. Often marginalized, the poor are whittled-down to a statistic. The poor represent different things to different people. Poor women, in particular, often find themselves with limited incomes, single parent responsibilities, low employment levels, and a need to receive aid from state and county welfare programs. This general aid includes government provided medical care. However, with the passage of recent healthcare policies, the types of therapies and treatments offered to and made available to poor women is changing. Women’s health issues, concerns, and conditions often find themselves open to ...

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 a material. Digital Watermarking ensure ...

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The Name of the School (University) The City and State Introduction The emergence of Windows server 2012 has revolutionized the entire network environment, because it has made easy the process of installation of Operating Systems (OS), which was initially a very cumbersome task for computer users across the globe (Lavapie, 2012). It has simplified the process by eliminating activities, which used to be done before the actual installation of the OS, for example, configuration of CMS, formatting and partitioning of hard drives. Installation of an OS involved the use of DVDs and CDs, and there would occur ...

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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 move. ...

Introduction

Malware is a short term for malicious software. It is a term used to refer to any software that disrupts normal computer operation, gathers information and accesses private material without the consent of the owner. As such, the term malware can be used to refer to a number of unwanted software such as viruses, phishing software (spyware), adware, worms, and Trojans. Malware can manifest itself as active content and scripts on websites, executable code (.exe files) and other forms (Bergman, Stanfield, Rouse & Scambray, 2013). Malware can be harmful and annoying. Harmful malware is that which can leak sensitive information from a computer or ...

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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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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 analysis ...

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Bash or Shellshock Bash Bug is a seriously dangerous vulnerability is present in a majority of distributions of Apple’s Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX. Stephane Chazelas was the discoverer of the Bash bug (Mimoso, 2014).

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Bash Bug is a flaw that makes it possible for a system attacker or invader to remotely put together a variable and a malicious executable. The invoking of Bash then executes the damage. In other words, this security flaw allows the creation of environment variables consisting of malevolent code before the Bash shell is called by the system (Mimoso, 2014). It is a super simple vulnerability that can ...

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Introduction Adaptation refers to a general process used by people, animals, plants, and the biological organisms living in the atmosphere. As change in nature is a constant process, one must learn to adapt to the change of the environment in order for survival. Adaptation to change is essential to the evolution of life. The evolution is an ever-going process that brings changes within the environment. From the moment we are conceived and take birth in this world, we are constantly adapting to certain forms of evolution (birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and middle aged adulthood) and advancing through different ...

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New York, 2014. Taking a break from his freelance programming work, JOSH stretches on his office chair, placing both his arm above his head. Then he begins typing fast and firm: wannahengout.com. He enters a chat room and as he scrolls down his mouse he is informed that CHRISTINE has just entered. He is intrigued by this user’s nickname, as it is the only normal nickname. He approaches CHRISTINE, typing fast, while looking at the screen. He explains that he was attracted by her simple nickname. They start talking about their likes and dislikes. CHRISTINE says to JOSH that she ...

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The way the Nigeria government approaches the air security of the West Africa region has been hugely influenced by the role of the national leaders as far as international security is concerned. The conception of the role has become the basis for any international and foreign engagement of the policy. According to history, Nigeria has always been perceived as the West Africa leader which has had a strong destiny manifested and its perceived responsibility in protecting and promoting the interests of Africans globally in any ramifications. There is also a belief that the air security of the country is coupled to the ...

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According to a survey given earlier this year leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense as members of Congress that cyberterrorism posed one of the major threats to U.S. interests. The survey echoes the sentiments of FBI director Robert Mueller when he stated in cyber terrorism may be a bigger threat than conventional terrorism. But with so many high level officials claiming the dangerousness of cyberterrorism, should the public be equally wary? What exactly are the dangers of a cyberterrorist attack? Moreover, if that attack were to ever come, what would its impact be on the U.S. and what measure could we ...

According to a report by the Identity Resource Center published earlier this year, the healthcare sector suffered nearly half of all the reported cyber-attacks over the past year. More recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that the cybersecurity standards of the healthcare sector, unlike other sectors such as the finance and consumer retail industries, were substantially below necessary levels required to protect their systems from unauthorized access or intrusion. As the world has increasingly moved online so has healthcare. Nowadays with electronic health records, the ability to directly contact our physicians and technologies as divergent as Apple’s ...

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One of the most significant and recent development in network attacks is Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack. This attack aims to make network resources unavailable to its intended users. The attacker targets a large number of machines and simultaneously installs various attack programs in them. DDOS attack frequency has increased globally, with anti-virus programmers struggling to develop new ways of countering such attacks. Some of the most famous DDOS attacks are listed below: - Spamhaus Attack: This was the deadliest DDOS attack, to date. On 18 March 2013, this attack targeted ...

Geospatial intrusion detection.

Introduction Geospatial intrusion detection is a cross pollination of geographic information systems and network security. It enhances situational awareness in ways done in existing solutions. An exception that is notable is the network security field. It has been riding the coattails of the sectors that are, financially, motivated which include online target marketing, credit cards fraud and digital rights management. In order to perform the detection the address of the server is geolocated by each hit, then the results are examined in order to identify the outliers using the spatial outlier detection and their cause is determined by manual ...