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...Website Security Paper Instructor: Class: CMGT/441 On June 19 2013 the popular social media website LinkedIn had a DNS hijack which affected all users of the website. According to “Tech Crunch” (2013), ‘’Shortly after the outage began, App.net co-founder Bryan Berg wrote on his blog that the site’s DNS may have been hijacked–in other words, its domain name was redirected to a different IP address”. Often this is the result of an attacker compromising the account used to manage DNS servers. One of the many flaws in LinkedIn’s security design is lacking SSL which means that if you visiting the website while the hack was occurring the cookies would have been sent over the network wire in plain text format and the hijackers would now have access to the payload data. SSL should be used anywhere where communicating information that should not be public. It is a very dangerous assumption to believe that no-one is listening to traffic between user’s computers and the remote server the hackers or black hats do not need direct access to the router it’s a simply listening of the network traffic and the information can be readily available. Without using SSL for sensitive communications, a single machine with a virus on a coworker’s computer is all that is needed for stealing the information of a network and then the compromises truly begin to happen. The availability of an authentication session cookie in an unencrypted form would allow an attacker to gain full access to a user's account...
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...Cyberbullying and How Internet Privacy is Involved Abstract This paper is going to be about how cyberbullying and internet privacy go hand-in-hand with each other. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication, like the internet and social media websites and cell phones, to bully a person, usually sending hurtful or embarrassing messages to them (Helen Cowie, 2013). Many of the articles that are going to be using for this paper talk about the different ways cyberbullying affects teens and young adults and also how internet privacy plays a role in cyberbullying. There is an article from Bob Sullivan (2013) that talks about how internet privacy is a complicated issue and there are criminals who break into websites to steal personal information. Since people can get someone else’s personal information, that makes it easier for a cyberbully to create a fake profile on a social media site, and make fun of and belittle someone else. Keywords: Cyberbullying, electronic communication, Cyberbullying and How Internet Privacy is Involved Traditional face-to-face bullying has been identified as a risk factor for the social and emotional adjustment of perpetrators, targets, and bully victims during childhood and adolescence. Bullies have now found a new way to reach their targets, by cyberbullying. They now can go on the internet and social media websites or use their cell phone. With the bully being able to do this they have the power to reach their targets at any time...
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...The fast growth of technology is creating more and more threats to our society in a number of ways. It is threatening individuals by letting cybercriminals gain access to sensitive information that can cause harm to innocent people. It is also creating threats to our younger generations that are unable to cope with the high emotions of social media sites. Individuals are being lured by fake profiles or fake people who would do harm to them. Computer crimes are on the rise. Law enforcements and agencies are doing everything they can to prevent the spread of these crimes. They have created special task divisions to protect our society better. New laws have been put to place to protect U.S citizens better. The four categories of crime: the computer as a target, the computer as an instrument, the computer as incidental to a crime, and crimes associated with prevalence of computer show that everyone can fall victim to some cybercrime. The computer as a target The computer as a target in cybercrime is what today’s society fears. Examples that are considered the computer being a target are denial of service attack, data alteration, and intrusion. Denial of service is when cyber criminals deny users to access to a machine or network. An example of this is when Yahoo was hacked into, and users could not open the website for a couple of hours until Yahoo had fixed the issue. Yahoo’s denial of service attack is a great example because it showed society that even big names...
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...Sherelle Brugin-Evans, he outlines the capture and high-level details of the Ms. Evans and her husband whom the U.S Marshals refer to as the “modern day Bonnie and Clyde” (Department of Justice, U.S. Marshals Task Force, 2013). Ms. Evans created her own opportunity of access to checks by creating her own. She collected individual data for checks and bank accounts in two ways, falsifying social security numbers which she used to obtain false driver’s licenses. She was eventually detected at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles which finally identified her use of false social securities numbers. Ms. Evans would use her false identification cards to forge documents. She and her husband ran a gang that used fake W-2s to obtain false checks from the state. However, this was only one of the many check tampering frauds she committed. The second such fraud was for her and her gang to produce fake checks and have members of the gang cash the checks around town. She had a history of forging the SSNs and licenses. Although not highlighted in the article, it would be within her to use the falsified identities on the checks to ensure they could be cashed. The use of these identities would also assist her and her group to get around internal controls of banks or stores and help her conceal the theft. Lastly, she is accused of using company bank account information to forge checks (Ferrise, 2013). She established a pattern of forging checks. She caused companies and people to lose money...
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...financing but realized that bank were not willing to lend him money due to his age and low profitability of his business. That’s why he came up with the idea of forgeries and thefts from his insurance company. Later on, making friends he asked the insurance claim adjuster - Tom Padgett to confirm from time to time that Minkow’s company received occasional insurance restoration contracts on remodeling works on properties damaged by fire, storms and other catastrophes. Soon he realized that there was no need in development of carpet business because the main “income” was obtained by restoration operations. Then, Minkow decided to go public and for that purpose he hired independent auditor – George Greenspan. By that time Minkow had established fake insurance company and Padgett had got the top position in it to confirm fraudulent restoration contracts, so Greenspan didn’t notice any problems with those sites. By the end of the year he was dismissed and Minkow retained “Ernst & Whinney” to enhance creditability of his operations on restoration contracts. “Ernst & Whinney” agreed to provide 4 types of services to “ZZZZ best company”: review the financial statement of the company for the 3-month period ending July 31, 1986; assistance in the preparation of a registration statement to be filled with the SEC; a comfort letter to be submitted to company’s underwriters and full scope audit for the fiscal year. But the full scope audit was never completed because “Ernst & Whinney”...
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...thank the members of the teaching and non-teaching staff of Fr.CRCE for the timely help extended by them. Lastly thanking our parents, for their morale support and encouragement. Kunal Gopal Thakur Vishal Shirguppi Justin Francis Shazia Ali ABSTRACT: Packet sniffing is a technique of monitoring every packet that crosses the network. A packet sniffer is a piece of software or hardware that monitors all network traffic. The security threat presented by sniffers is their ability to capture all incoming and outgoing traffic, including clear-text passwords and usernames or other sensitive material. While packet sniffers can be fully passive, some aren’t, therefore they can be detected. This paper discusses the different methods that Anti-Sniff uses to detect these...
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...TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction 2 Threats 2 • State-sponsored espionage and sabotage of computer networks 2 • Monster DDoS attacks 2 • The loss of visibility and control created by IT consumerization and the cloud 2 • The password debacle 3 • The insider threat 3 UAE CASE 3 Precaution 4 Conclusion 4 Bibliography 5 Introduction As the requirement of the paper I will explain the types of fraud may face by the organisation computer networks. Along with I will discuss two cases of such fraud in UAE and finally I will discuss possible precautions to mitigate the risk of such frauds. In recent year the computer network threats become technically more advanced, sophisticated, more organised and at the same time difficult to detect. It is important to mention that these attacks not only damage network security for financial frauds but this also aim to disable and reliability of the infrastructure as well, which may cause worse type of threat to the national security. (Tom Cross and Eric Savitz, Forbes Staff, 2012) Threats Most respected financial magazine FORBES has mentioned five main security threats to the computer networks which includes. • State-sponsored espionage and sabotage of computer networks o In 2012 a very famous virus called Flame was discovered which was not traced by the software in years. Similarly virus named Shamon destroyed the data of oil and energy companies and made the machines unbootable. • Monster DDoS attacks o DDos stands for the...
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...EMAIL TRACING AND SPOOFING Abstract : E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open, and possibly even respond to, their solicitations. Spoofing can be used legitimately. Classic examples of senders who might prefer to disguise the source of the e-mail include a sender reporting mistreatment by a spouse to a welfare agency or a "whistle-blower" who fears retaliation. However, spoofing anyone other than yourself is illegal in some jurisdictions. In this report we will study some ways of email spoofing as well as ways of tracing the spoofed email back. 1. INTRODUCTION Spoofing refers to the act of using imitation to make parody of another work of media or entertainment. Similarly, in the digital world too, the word spoofing is used to highlight the act of tricking and fooling the unaware netizens through utterly believable imitations of trusted service providers. Spoofing is basically of 4 types: 1) URL spoofing 2) Referral spoofing 3) Caller ID spoofing 4) E-mail address spoofing In this report we will be dealing with only email address spoofing.This will include a detailed study of the techniques used in spoofing and the techniques used to trace the spammers indulging in the malicious act of email spoofing. 2. EMAIL SPOOFING Email spoofing is the act of sending an email that...
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...Question 1 A text book publisher can sell his book chapters on-line by using 2 types of e-payment methods. Credit card payment method: Credit card which is an electronic card with coded users, issuers and account number information embedded in the card chip. The buyer can login to the book publisher's website, view the book chapters, choose the one he or she wants place it in the shopping cart. Buyer’s input card information and the transaction is forwarded through the publishers gateway containing the publishers account information, the acquiring and issuing backs exchange information transactions and money is deposited into the publishers account, as long as the buyer's credit limit is not reached. Then the publisher sends the book to the customer by post or through web server electronically. Charge card payment method: Charge card is also an electronic card containing coded information embedded in the card chip, it is similar to a credit card but there are no credit limits, the card holder only has to settle his balance at the end of every month. The customer login to the website, make a purchase of the book chapter and the customer and publisher's bank gateway exchange information and transaction is done. The problem with both types of payments methods is that some people are not comfortable with on line payments because of hackers, crackers, spoofing and phishing, which are ways and means of identity and information thefts. Question 2 A retail...
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...E-Business Paper Introduction The Timberland Company is a manufacturer and retailer of outdoor and footwear. Since its founding in 1952 Timberland has provided quality products that have since become an American Icon. Timberland was originally marketed towards people who wanted a working boot or outdoor shoe. Since then Timberland has crossed over into popular culture and currently designs clothing and accessories. Timberland stores are located in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In 2014 Timberland had revenue of $3.1 billion dollars ("Timberland", 2015). Much of Timberlands increase in sales can be attributed to its global appeal and internet presence. Advantages of E-Business E-business has many advantages and Timberland has capitalized on many of those advantages. Timberland stores are not common and are not that easily found especially in the southern warmer states and in many different countries. With the availability of online shopping Timberland has made their product available to anyone that has internet and a credit card. This is a smart business move for Timberland as they have in a sense established a store in everyone’s home. The Timberland website provides customers with a wide selection of Timberland products. Many of these products are the latest releases and are not available in local stores. Another feature that the Timberland website provides is customization...
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...Operating System MEMORY 01/05/15 Mac OS X Operating System MEMORY At start up, the MAC OSX it divides the Random Access Memory into two broad sections. The system partition is a saved portion which always begins at the lowest addressable byte of memory and then extends upward. The other portion is available for use by software components and applications. When launching an application, the system OS only allows for a specific portion of memory to be utilized in what is called an application partition. The system Heap is the main part of the system partition which exclusively reserves itself for the operating system and software components. The Heap loads system code, resources and data structures, including the system buffering and queues. The Heap starts at the low memory end and only expands when needed to the high memory area. In multitasking situations, each application is limited in its memory partition. It is only allotted in total what is assigned as its maximum intended usage to not over access memory usage. If the application requires the use of more memory, the RAM grants the application Temporary memory from the Heap to allow for smoother function ability. The operating environment is controlled by the system global variables which is the elapsed time of each open applications since...
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...writing a paper or finding research because it is more credible and your know for sure you are passing along the correct information. One thing to look for is if the Internet site has an author and they are qualified for writing the information. You can do this by looking at their biography and looking for information about their education and experiences. It is important to check for a date and whether or not it is decently recent. If there is no date or it is really old, it may no longer be reliable information. If an article has punctuation and spelling errors, the website should not be used. Obviously, the person is not credible. When determining whether the website is credible and reliable, you should look for sources the author may have used. It is important to know where the information came from and whether or not it can be trusted. You should always look at where the information is published. It is good to find sources that came from journals and other scholarly pieces. You could also look at the reviews of the sites and see other people’s experiences on the website. If the information seems biased or opinionated it should not be used. The information should be factual based only, unless you are specifically looking for an opinion about a situation. Generally, if the website ends in .edu or .gov, it is reliable. If it ends in .com, then the information should definitely be questioned. 2. Is the website answers.com a reliable resource for writing an academic paper? Why...
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...Many schools have switched from using paper textbooks to iPads or chromebooks, which allow students to access online textbooks. But is this a good change? There are many factors that need to be put into consideration, including the age group of a kids receiving the technology, the classes this tool can be used for, and the children’s ability to interact with others. The age at which schools choose to hand out technology is very important to students’ ability to learn in the future. If we supply elementary students with technology, it is like giving them ”the fanciest scuba gear on the market- but if these kids don’t know how to swim, and fitting them out with scuba gear isn’t just useless, it's irresponsible; they’ll drown“(Source E). Young children could also use these devices to access fake and inappropriate information, such as pornography, gory video games, and nasty movies. In addition to the harms of young children using technology, it could be detrimental to them in the long term if they do not develop social skills. If students only know how to interact online they will not strive or be ready for their life after high school and college. Elder people will not be able to ”communicate with students today who have grown up with technology from the...
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...which led to her suicide. The mother of a former friend of Megan created a fake social network account under the name of Josh to monitor Megan online. The mother became friends with Megan, but Megan only thought it was just a boy that she knew from school. After a while, everything went from sweet talk to verbal abuse. Terms such as" Megan is a slut. Megan is Fat" were being posted all over the social network by the mother. Devastated by all this bullying, Megan was found hung in her bedroom closet a few days before her fourteenth birthday. After the death of Megan, they found out it was the mother of her former friend who was behind this cyber bullying. Megan's Father, Ron Meir stated, "That's the biggest tragedy of this whole thing. An adult did this." Living in the 19th century, everything we do is revolved around the Internet. Nowadays more than 50% of people can’t go a few hours without going on the internet since they have developed smartphones that bring it right into the palm of our hands which makes it harder for parents to monitor their kid’s internet behaviors. Basically whatever you do is connected to the Internet, from talking on the phone, video chatting and texting. But most people do not realize that there are consequences, which relates to all of the above if not taken certain measures and precautions that would lessen the risk of such threats that might arise while using Internet. Don’t get me wrong, the Internet is a wonderful tool that benefits everyone but others...
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