Essays on Source Code

Introduction

If an employee with access to sensitive information was terminated, then the employee is considered as an insider threat. These insiders can cause three types of threats to an organization: Sabotage, Fraud, or theft of intellectual property (IP) or data using Information Technology (IT). IT sabotage uses IT to harm the critical assets of the organization. IT can be used to steal data or IP or also for espionage by insiders. Using IT to tamper data, addition, or deletion of data for personal gain or to perform an identity crime can be considered IT fraud.

Hacker’s Targets

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Introduction

Every fiscal quarter, automated writing algorithms produce thousands of corporate earning articles using little more than structured data. Companies such as Automated Insights and Narrative Science can write articles on almost any domain with clean and well-structured data. The machine-written articles have variability, tone, and style, and at times are difficult to differentiate them from human-written articles. The automated writing algorithms offer scale, speed, and labor-saving cost. However, the effects of the compromise on media organizations are nuance and accuracy. Thousands of machine-written and published articles had to be corrected for some kind of error (Diakopoulos). The errors range ...

Background

As a fast-growing medical research and development company, nothing is more important to Information Assurance Research than the security of the company’s proprietary information and customer and employee data. I am concerned that the company’s sensitive information stored at Reston Virginia and the data conveyed via the WAN is not well protected from web-based application attackers. My proposal is based on research on various web-based applications security software in different online fora. I have also explored various studies on different security software and their effectiveness as well as affordability. My insight has also been drawn from customer ...

Introduction

The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that got discovered by Stefan Metzmacher, who works for Samba developers (Mimoso, 2016). Stefan has worked for Samba for a long period; since 2002 and he now works as a Samba trainer and consultant at SerNet. The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that affects various kinds of Windows operating system known as the DCE. The DCE is utilized by chairpersons around the globe to get to the most profitable resource on any Windows. The windows network is an Active Directory, which goes about as a system with advanced security watch permitting an association's ...

W4

How can we improve on existing websites? Websites in today’s times are the first impression for any company. They need to be dynamically updated with latest information and should be able to be accessed on laptops and mobiles. It is always best for any business to keep its website updated. Many businesses run on websites today, thus it is important to have the best and user-friendly website. Some of the ways to advance the existing website include: Updating the Content: Content for any website must be current. It should have a section for queries so that the ...

Athlone Store – Android Application Linked with Server

Introduction Athlone Store is an Android based application that is linked with a Server. The App is based on a Client-Server architecture where the client caters to end users or buyers and the server is the admin part for managing the application data and relevant details. The client in this architecture is the Android App that is accessed by users or the buyers of various product offerings on the App. The buyers accessing the Android App can perform various activities on the Android App client that includes checking product categories, searching products by name, browsing through the product catalog, ...

Bitcoin is a form of digital currency held and created electronically. It is a cryptocurrency hence it is unregulated, unlike fiat money. The transactions of Bitcoin are recorded in a Blockchain, which represents a public ledger of all Bitcoin transactions in the world. Bitcoin works as a regular currency and is used to make transactions based on the monetary value of the item. Blockchain is used to keep a record of the transactions done to offer a clear and precise paper trail of how the wealth has changed hand (Swan, 2015). Bitcoin was started by Satoshi Nakamoto, who proposed ...

Open Source Software Licensing is a copyright license specific to computer software which allows availability of the source code to everyone (Lee 1). The users should be able to modify and review the author’s source code to fit their own needs. The use of this software may have certain restrictions. The first is that it is a requirement that the names of the creative authors be preserved. There is also a copyright statement issued with the code. Licenses are usually free and the most popular set of these free licenses are approved by the OSI (Open Source Initiative). Examples of these ...