Essays on Phishing

Social Engineering is the art of deceiving or manipulating a person to engage in an activity which may or may not be in the best interest of that person. Social engineering encompasses activities such as obtaining the information of someone else deceitfully, gaining access to the computers of other people without their consent and getting a person to fraudulently engage in activities which they could not have engaged in ordinarily (Hagnagy 9-10). Further, social engineering does not consist of merely one action. On the contrary, social engineering entails a multiplicity of skills fitted into a particular framework which when ...

The security breach in question involved Anthem Inc., one of the biggest insurance providers in the US; the company and third-party security experts estimated that nearly 80 million individual records containing names, medical IDs, addresses, social security numbers and other personal data have been compromised by the attack. Investigators came to the conclusion that the attacking party was able to access the records by sending out phishing emails to Anthem employees; some also linked Chinese government to the attack but this assumption was either dismissed as impossible to verify, or relevant information have not yet been released to the ...

All organizations face the risk of attacks. In today’s world businesses cannot function efficiently without computers, networks, and the internet. Increased internet connectivity has provided the companies with many incentives but along with them a tremendous increase in the level risk. Although no organization can be fully secure, we have the responsibility to mitigate all risks. The company must assess, plan and address threats and vulnerabilities through different security measures. Denial-of- Service is a major risk for the organization. The attack would aim at disrupting the service network. The attackers can send high volumes of traffic and data ...

Key issue / Introduction

The Department of Homeland Security was created in 2002 to protect the homeland security of the United States. Cybersecurity is a goal of the department and involves the protection against the unauthorized or illegal use of electronic information or data. It involves the protection of computers, networks, data and programs. Cybersecurity involves a number of factors. Those will malicious intentions can have operated from any place in the world. Cyberspace and systems that are physical have strong linkages. Vulnerabilities to cyberspace are difficult to reduce. Those who invade and attack cyberspace are difficult to identify due to the complexity ...

Statement of the Research Problem

Currently, there are a vast number of reported cases of online fraudsters who tend to break into people's systems without their consent. The threat of online fraud has an impact on operations of business in the hospitality sector. The adoption of technological advancements improves the efficiency of firms such as the hospitality industry that can guarantee them more advanced customer service and consequently tremendous profits. However, the increased use of the internet makes the hospitality industry prone to fraudsters. For instance, the Marriot Milwaukee Downtown which is a major hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, faces the threat of fraudsters mainly ...

There have been a lot of documented events wherein large scale multinational corporations have been successfully victimized by cyber security and information system attacks. It is surprising and frightening at the same time that even those corporations are being targeted despite the fact that they are the ones that are very much capable of setting up formidable information system defenses against malicious entities. In the case of Sony, one of the latest victims of cyber security breaches, their latest announcement suggests that they are investing $15 Million for a more formidable cyber security defense. Evidently, their previous budgets were ...

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 ...

Introduction

Ever since the infamous attack on the World Trade Center which occurred last September 2001, terrorism is a real, pertinent, and primary cause of concern as of late. Many establishments, particularly airports, are very tantamount on upholding security so as to avoid any more terrorist attacks occurring on a wide scale such as what happened at the World Trade Center. In spite of these countermeasures, terrorist attacks are still a genuine threat at large. Despite best efforts, many countries are still experiencing terrorist attacks every now and then, thereby putting the safety of many people in danger. On a ...

Question 1

Information is an important asset. The core goal of information security is to protect the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of the information. To build a secure organization, it is important to build a security program that protects the information assets of the organization. An important part of the security program is the risk analysis. The objective of a security program is to mitigate risks, which does not mean eliminating them but reducing them to an acceptable level. To ensure that the right kind of security controls are in place and controlling the risks effectively, it is necessary to anticipate ...

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 ...

Background

Riofrio (2013) opined that data generated online was useful to legal enforcement officers and marketers. However, the emergence of new technologies amplified the problem of data security in regards to access by third parties without the consent of the users. Safety issues arise in the process of human-computer interactions. Therefore, both the end-user and the manufacturers of the devices, or proprietors of social media are at the center of privacy concerns. Consider the recent stand-off between Apple and the FBI whereby the latter wanted the company to bypass the security setting of the iPhone of one of the suspects. ...

Identity Theft

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Introduction

Identity theft is a type of scam where malicious attackers steal financial and personal information of their victims, assuming their identity and using it to hide from law enforcement and perform illegal financial activities. Identity theft was the most reported crime by consumers to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2014, over 12 million cases of identity theft cases were reported in the United Sates, costing the victims over $16 billion . Although this was a decrease from the previous year and issues of identity theft have been on declining since then, citizens are still advised to ...

Implementing Cyber-Security: Best Practices at Work

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Executive Summary The internet brings forth a world of social connectivity, growth and endless innovation opportunities. These have been hastened by the advent of mobile applications and computing. The sudden surge in technology has changed the way we communicate to the way we travel. While some see the beneficial side of technology, others see an opportunity to do harm. These individuals, states or groups present a cyber-threat to anyone who uses the internet. Nothing they are involved in is new; espionage is not new and so is activism ...

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 ...

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 ...

Online shopping has been one of the most active platforms through which e-commerce is known for popularly. The number of companies that are offering the products online through online malls and online company sales website suggests this with the increased numbers. Arguably, the position that this literature describes is that the paradigm shift in shopping that has been one of the major progress that has been made in E-commerce, and it is seen as inevitable (Flint, Blocker and Boutin, 2011). Reading from the suggestions of Klumpp and Jasper (2008), online shopping has materially been identified with the fastest growing ...

The DBIR 2015 is the ninth one from Verizon, and similar to the others, it highlights patterns and trends present in an aggregated incident data set. The report begins by emphasizing that there are few unique breaches in the cyber-world, and that the likelihood that an intrusion mechanism has been applied previously is relatively high. Furtherance, the DBIR informs against the presumption that victims of data breach believe they are in isolation; it is this falsehood that impedes on information sharing on attack patterns, which could collectively help prevent future intrusions. Verizon has managed to develop a classification for ...

Introduction

We live in a digital age today, where everything is accessed and stored online. One observable effect of this phenomenon is that millions of people are now using social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and the like. The primary objective of people using these sites is that they can be updated on the latest news and trends, as well as to communicate with friends and loved ones. Because of this, people put personal information such as contact numbers, passwords, school and work information, e-mail and home addresses, and the like so that they can be easier to be ...

Abstract

This paper seeks to make an evaluation of the business practices of three e-commerce websites, renttherunway.com, weartodaygonetomorrow.com and bellybumpboutique.com. The evaluation is on the security of the sites, confidentiality of information collected on the sites and an analysis on how well the sites handle the impact of international issues.

The three websites deal with rental of women clothing, with weartodaygonetomorrow.com offering purchase options not available in the other two websites. Bellybumpboutique.com specializes in rental of fashionable wear for expectant mothers. The main objective of the websites is to offer clothing rental for garments which may otherwise be too expensive ...

Electronic or cyber crime is a criminal activity, committed through the use of information technologies. Economies worldwide, business and individuals are effected by electronic crime increasingly more often every year. According to Internet Crime Complaint Center, in 2008 the number of electronic crimes in the USA has increased from 207 to 275 thousand, and resulted in a total loss of 264.6 million dollars (Limbach, n.d.).

Multiple types of computer crime include cyber theft, cyber terrorism, creation of obscene or offensive content, harassment, drug trafficking, spam, information warfare, phishing scams, spreading computer viruses and malware.

Types of Electronic Crime

Computer hackers use ...