...……………………………………………………6 Functionality Approaches of Rootkit ……………………………….…………..7 Types of Rootkit ………………………………………………………………….8 CHAPTER 3 …………………………………………………………………….11 DISCUSSION ………………………………………………………………….11 Rootkit Detection & Prevention ……………………………………………….11 Rootkit Prevention & Removal Approaches …………………………………12 Rootkit Detection & Prevention Tools ………………………………………..13 CHAPTER 4 …………………………………………………………………….14 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………..……14 CHAPTER 5 ………………………………………………………….…………15 REFERENCES …………………………………………………………………15 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This research paper is divided into 5 main chapters like introduction, literature review, discussion, conclusion and references. The major points of this detailed research are summarized as below. * Rootkit technologies cause severe security attacks in today’s cyber world. This research discusses the significance of effective security strategies that should be formulated against security attacks. * Detailed analysis of rootkit technologies and functionalities are done. Different rootkit types, attack tools and approaches are analyzed. * Several rootkit detection & prevention systems are evaluated for preventing these security attacks effectively. Various rootkit prevention tools and methodologies analyzed as well. * This research paper concludes with the significance of effective security tactics against rootkits. Utilization of rootkit technology for legitimate purpose is...
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...bowels of company networks and infrastructure In simple way, we can say that threat actor is the person who does the attack while the threat action is how this attack assaults the system 2. What were the vulnerabilities that the Threat exercised? The most recent use exploits are : 1. Adobe Flash Player Object Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) 2. Microsoft Internet Explorer Same ID Property Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1875) 3. Microsoft XML Core Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1889) 4. Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1535) The attackers gained access to the source code or reserve-engineered to those complied applications. Then use them to hit the targeted victim. 3. Was the attack on Confidentiality, Integrity, and/or Availability? Please provide an explanation for your response. I believe that this attack on confidentiality because the hackers had stolen intellectual property and sought access to the Gmail accounts of human rights activists and this leads to disclosure of data to non-authorized users so it violates the confidentiality 4. What was the attacker's profile based on the definitions provided on the Week 2 lecture material? Based on information provided in the Elderwood Project I categorized this attacker’s profile as a Nation State because it is targeted specific countries so the motivation is political and speaking...
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...known to be addictive, therefore, no matter how safe it can be delivered, the use of addictive materials will cause the user to become accustom to their regular dose which will encourage increasing it. This objective of this project is to implement a school-based education program in elementary, middle, and high schools across Nevada over the next year. Introducing a program at the schools is an opportunity to stop the beginning of nicotine use, thereby eliminating the health concerns associated with it. The research shows that school based programs do have a positive effect on health issues. The CDC notes that most U.S. schools have put in place policies and programs concerning tobacco use ("Centers For Disease Control And Prevention", 2014). This is beneficial because many resources are available to make this program a success. This paper summarizes the steps that can be taken to help with the successful implementation of a school based program including identifying resources, implementation sites, and characters of the program that must be adhered to and monitored. This program meets the required criteria for which several funding sources that can be applied. One source is RFA-DP09-90101SUPP10 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care...
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...easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or prevent the software from working at all. The Top 25 list is a tool for education and awareness to help programmers to prevent the kinds of vulnerabilities that plague the software industry, by identifying and avoiding all-too-common mistakes that occur before software is even shipped. Software customers can use the same list to help them to ask for more secure software. Researchers in software security can use the Top 25 to focus on a narrow but important subset of all known security weaknesses. Finally, software managers and CIOs can use the Top 25 list as a measuring stick of progress in their efforts to secure their software. The list is the result of collaboration between the SANS Institute, MITRE, and many top software security experts in the US and Europe. It leverages experiences in the development of the SANS Top 20 attack vectors (http://www.sans.org/top20/) and MITRE's Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) (http://cwe.mitre.org/). MITRE maintains the CWE web site, with the support of the US Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division, presenting detailed descriptions of the top 25 programming errors along with authoritative guidance for mitigating and avoiding them. The CWE site contains data on...
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...Operating System – CS 407 Spring 2014 (BE (CS)) Course contents Overview of Operating System Objectives and functions of operating system A brief overview of computer architecture Concept of process States of process; Process control block; Address space Threads and processes Concept of threads; context of a thread Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Microkernel architecture of Operating system Concurrency, Mutual exclusion and Synchronization Principles of concurrency Hardware support for mutual exclusion Semaphores and monitors Synchronization through message passing Deadlock and Starvation Deadlock prevention, avoidance and detection Algorithms for deadlock prevention, avoidance and detection Memory management Requirements; Memory partitioning; paging and segmentation Virtual memory management and operating system support Processor Scheduling Types of scheduling and scheduling algorithms Multiprocessor scheduling and real-time scheduling I/O Management and Disk Scheduling Organization of I/O devices; Buffering Disk scheduling; Disk cache RAIDs File management File organization and file directories File sharing and record blocking Secondary storage management Protection and Security Computer security; Threats and attacks Viruses, Worms and Bots Authentication and access control Intrusion detection and malware defence Distributed processing and Networks Communication architecture; Client/server computing ...
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...it must be managed carefully even in a single-user database environment. Then explain why a multi-user database environment makes transaction management even more critical. Emphasize the following points: • A transaction represents a real-world event such as the sale of a product. • A transaction must be a logical unit of work. That is, no portion of a transaction stands by itself. For example, the product sale has an effect on inventory and, if it is a credit sale, it has an effect on customer balances. • A transaction must take a database from one consistent state to another. Therefore, all parts of a transaction must be executed or the transaction must be aborted. (A consistent state of the database is one in which all data integrity constraints are satisfied.) All transactions have four properties: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. (These four properties are also known as the ACID test of transactions.) In addition, multiple transactions must conform to the property of serializability. Table IM10.1 provides a good summary of transaction properties. Table IM10.1 Transaction Properties. |Multi-user | |Single-user | |atomicity: Unless all parts of the executed, the transaction is aborted | |Databases | |Databases | | | | | | | |consistency. Indicates the permanence...
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...NFSMW Mod Loader and Ferrari 360 Spider Mod for Need For Speed Most Wanted July 20, 2006 README (version 1.0a) Welcome ======= You have just downloaded the world's first community created custom car modification for NFSMW. It is recommended that you read this readme file completely before proceeding. In order to use this mod, you will require version 1.3 of NFSMW. If you haven't patched your game at any time, you are still running version 1.2. You can download the 1.3 patch from: ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/nfsmwpatch1.3.exe Run install.exe to install NFSMW Mod Loader and the Ferrari 360 Spider Mod. You can launch the game by using the "Need for Speed™ Most Wanted (Mod Loader)" shortcut on your desktop or in your start menu under the regular NFSMW start menu folder. If you launch the game with the regular "Need for Speed™ Most Wanted" shortcut, the Mod Loader will be disabled, and none of the installed mods will be loaded. None of the game-related files are replaced by installing this mod. The Ferrari 360 Spider mod works by replacing an existing car in the game. The car which the mod replaces is the Mercedes SL65. To select this car, navigate to the "Bonus Cars" screen and select it. If you do not have the Black Edition version, you may be required to finish certain portions of the game before the car will be unlocked. Alternatively...
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...Gun Law Study JASON GUTIERREZ CJA/ 334 Lee Wagner 1/16/13 Gun Laws Study Today we are face with a growing numbers of horrific mass shootings. Many Americans want something done to prevent incidents like the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting from ever happening again. The question is what is to be done to prevent it from happening in the future. In the past all that has been done was to strengthen the gun laws. Even though gun laws in the past have been implemented to protect us from these types of events mass shootings still happen. Today after sandy Hook it seems that we are going to take the same route as we did in the past, add more gun laws. The only problem is that there is no proof that past gun laws has had some or any effects on gun crimes. A two year study by a Task Force on Community Preventive Services was conducted to find out just that. The following paragraphs will cover the main problem and question as well as the research methods, results and conclusion of the finding found in this study. The Purpose of the Research Study, Problem, and Questions The (Task Force) conducted a study review of other independent nonfederal task force’s scientific evidence found in their studies regarding the effectiveness of firearms laws (Thacker, 2003). Each of these studies was focused on a particular firearms law (Thacker, 2003). The task force was faced with the problem of if the firearms laws where at all effective in preventing violence, including violent crimes...
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...The death penalty or the capital punishment is a sentence imposed by the law, which remove the legal life of the person who commit or is suspected of having committed a serious crime. The history of death penalty in the U.S is long and ruthless and the first recorded execution was in 1608. There are many kinds of death penalty which have been used in US such as shooting, electric chair, hanging, lethal injection. Some people believe that it is never ethical and justifiable to carry out the death penalty as means of punishment by the law. Nowadays, approximately 2/3 of all countries have banned the death penalty included 18 states of the United States. Most executions take place in the Southern states, according to this source, until 2008, 930 out of 1136 executions took place there, with Texas having carried out 422 (The pros and cons of the death penalty in the USA, n.d). This research will indicate whether the death penalty in the U.S should be abolished. Body Paragraph Reasons for the abolishment of Capital Punishment in the U.S It is possible to argue that the death penalty in the U.S should be eliminated because of inviolable human rights, unjust punishment and faint correlation between executions and crime rates. Firstly, inalienable human-rights are against the death penalty in all over the world because no one can decide who could be alive. Against Capital Punishment (n.d) argues that “everyone has a right to live and no one deserves to be tortured or subject...
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...Safety Indicators in the Construction Industry Safety indicators in the construction industry can be used to promote cost effective strategies and significantly improve safe practice on construction sites. The main purpose of using indicators is to track safety measure and adjust for continuous improvement in the construction process results. Many types of measurements are performed today that focus on monitoring and recording critical process and end results of construction projects to yield a better definition of key performance indicators. Finding performance indicators is important because they can be measured and compared to real work processes and focus attention on creating efforts to change the work environment into a high level safety zone. Many companies have taken notice of OSHA and their research findings gathered on construction. OSHA has made clear that a positive way to handle improving site safety is to follow safety performance indicators. OSHA has promoted a technique using positive reinforcements and indicators to produce a more forthcoming worksite. An effective way to measure the performance of safety on the work site as suggested by OSHA is using a systems performance metrics. In doing this OSHA has solved problems such as how to measure the safety performance and how to determine the necessary indicators. “To effectively manage anything, you must first be able to successfully measure it-safety is no different and indicators are only accurate for safety...
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...again – after 47 hours from the airplane impact at the WTC. The reason: * A well conceived DRP; * A skillful execution of the DRP, with people working on adrenaline and reacting on instincts. DRP – based on several mirror sites. Triangular architecture: WTC – Rochelle Park – London. The significant loss of lives made recovery from this event especially difficult. Sources (moving forward): http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Pop-Culture/ From day one, Rochelle Park was seen as a concurrent system, not a disaster-recovery site. The shift was driven by eSpeed's role as the largest player in electronic bond-trading, which meant uninterrupted service was an imperative. The nondescript building in a blue-collar town was perfect—a former telecom facility across from another telecom building. Systems alternated between the trade center and the mirror site, with particular products (e.g., zero coupon bonds) running live for a month at one location and then switching to the other; about half of the company's approximately 40 products were live at each location at any given time. "In that sense we had run our disaster-recovery tests the day before," says Noviello. The mirror site and the World Trade Center were connected by a high-speed optical line, over which eSpeed linked the storage area networks at each site. Sybase data-replication software mirrored critical databases between the sites. Half of the company's Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers...
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...is very little information as to why hospitals do or do not use the available preventative methods. (Sanjay, et al., 2008) Purpose and Research Questions A list of questions were designed using the qualitative method, then used in 38 semi-regulated phone interviews with crucial staff at 14 expressly chosen hospitals and 39 face-to-face interviews at five of those fourteen medical facilities, to identify persistent and integrated ideas that describe in what way healthcare facilities tackled the dilemma of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections. (Sanjay, et al., 2008) The personnel interviewed were able to speak their thoughts freely since the data collection was so accommodating by using open-ended questions since qualitative studies encompass a method of discovery. Through comprehensive examination of the ensuing data, the concerns that face complex healthcare environments can be made known and in turn help clinicians and the policy makers decide on methods to help decrease hospital-acquired urinary tract infections; for this purpose qualitative studies are appropriate. The questions used in...
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...©2012 Peppers & Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 2 Telecom operators are under pressure to deliver, and deliver fast. There is tremendous focus on always-on mobile connectivity and access to information when and where we want it, both in the consumer and business worlds. Telecom operators see this new normal firsthand, providing data networks and technology convergence to bring information and access to their customers in the moment. As a result, it’s become critical for operators to have the same type of fast access and interaction with their customer data and analytics. The current competitive landscape demands it. Are traditional analytical models enough? No. If operators are changing the way they do business, this shift must apply to analytics as well. It’s become imperative to monitor the instant changes in customers’ behaviors and match them with the most relevant offer as soon as the customer needs it. This is achieved with a sophisticated blend of analytics and business sense. This white paper explores the opportunities of two dynamic analytical capabilities: transactional behavioral analysis and capturing data potential. These tools give operators real-time insight about their customer activity so they can take action to be as agile as possible. The New Frontier in Telecom Analytics: Get Better Insight Faster The dynamic nature of today’s telecom customers requires an equally dynamic use of analytics to understand customers and make decisions. Executive...
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... the Continuity Management Team would be there to facilitate all of the areas affected by the event or disaster and personnel involved. This team should include other smaller groups that would entail operations and communication, and damage assessment with each role of the groups to be defined whenever a major business disruption occurs. The leader of the Continuity Management Team will be a Coordinator and would be the central point of contact for all execution of plans. B1. Strategic Changes There are many changes that ManIT, LLC should implement to ensure that operations should continue should a disruption occur. In recent year, the Department of Homeland Security recommended a five-phase approach for organizations when developing a Business Continuity Plan. These phases are Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation. Below is an outline of proactive changes that ManIT, LLC can put into place now to help operations if such a disaster could occur: Prevention: The concept of prevention should be applied to making more informed decisions...
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...A Survey of SQL Injection Defense Mechanisms Kasra Amirtahmasebi, Seyed Reza Jalalinia and Saghar Khadem Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden akasra, seyedj, saghar{@student.chalmers.se} Abstract SQL Injection Attack (SQLIA) is a prevalent method which makes it possible for the attackers to gain direct access to the database and culminates in extracting sensitive information from the firm’s database. In this survey, we have presented and analyzed six different SQL Injection prevention techniques which can be used for securing the data storage over the Internet. The survey starts by presenting Variable Normalization and will continue with AMNESIA, Prepared statements, SQL DOM, SQLrand and SQLIA prevention in stored procedures respectively. that determining whether a SQL statement is allowable or not is done by checking the existence of normalized statement in the ready-sorted allowable list. 2.1. Background Many web pages ask users to input some data and make a SQL queries to the database based on the information received from the user i.e. username and passwords. By sending crafted input a malicious user can change the SQL statement structure and execute arbitrary SQL commands on the vulnerable system. Consider the following username and password example, in order to login to the web site, the user inputs his username and password, by clicking on the submit button the following SQL query is generated: SELECT * FROM user_table WHERE user_id = ‘john’ and password...
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