...applications for personal profit, at the expense of legitimate businesses and users. A successful attack can result in downtime, the theft of user financial and personal information, loss of revenue, and loss of customers. This paper will offer an overview of some common types of security vulnerabilities and attacks on ecommerce platforms as well as some common tactics to prevent such attacks. Additional suggestions for maximizing information security on an application level as well as within an origination will be made with the goal emphasizing the prevention of attacks. There are numerous tactics that exploiters use to gain access to user personal and financial information on ecommerce sites. One common attack is SQL injection, which is a tactic where a hacker inserts SQL query data into user input fields on a web site, with the goal of that query being executed by the database. With the strategic placement of apostrophes, dashes and semi-colons, the hacker can execute queries that bring a web site down, provide access to customer financial and other personal information, and even manipulate data on the site. There have been a number of high-profile SQL injection attacks that have resulted in the theft of user information. The web sites of both Guess and PetCo were both the victims of a successful SQL injection attack by a 20 year old programmer who was able to steal user credit card information. Other online retailers that have fallen victim to SQL injection attacks resulting...
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...The Nature of Terrorists and Assassins Kevin Charles English Composition II Laura Carter November 13, 2013 Terrorists and assassins have been committing atrocities against innocent people throughout the world for hundreds of years. Their violent crimes have made headlines all across the world, and their attacks on society seem relentless. What is a terrorist and assassin, and why do they do what they do? A terrorist is a person, usually a member of a group that uses or advocates terrorism. An assassin is one who murders by surprise attacks, and is also someone who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person. They are both motivated by their beliefs, the will to terrorize the population of which they despise, and their political or personal agendas. The nature of a terrorist and assassin is sometimes considered to be acts of insane men trying to achieve a particular goal; their methods are known to have a drastic impact of society because of all the innocent people that are killed and hurt. Terrorist and assassins have had a major impact on society throughout history and definitely in the 20th century. They are said to be different in many ways but similar in some, and one thing they have in common is that their actions have the same effect on society. Terrorist’s and assassin’s actions are considered one of the most powerful influences in society because they are motivated by causing chaos and upheaval in society. Both parties believe in their cause and will stop at nothing...
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...non-technological schemes and technological schemes. Non – technological schemes include dumpster diving, mail theft, social engineering, and shoulder surfing and stealing personal items. This technique is exactly what it sounds like the criminal or hacker does not use technology but will use theft and other diversions to gather personal information. Dumpster diving is the act of going through somebody else’s garbage to obtain personal information off of the items found in the garbage. To protect yourself from this you should shred everything before throwing it away. You could also go paperless and get online bank...
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...1.0 Introduction Domino’s Pizza, is the largest pizza-delivery company in the world. Mainly in the United States with over 5,700 units, it can also be found in 58 countries which include Indonesia, Singapore, China and also, Malaysia. Domino’s is famous for its Crunchy Thin Crust and also for its professional delivery services. The first Domino’s Pizza Malaysia was officially launched by the founder, Tom Monaghan on September 1997. Currently, there are 54 Domino’s outlets across Penang, Perak, Selangor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Johor. Domino’s mission statement is to be the leader in delivering off-premise pizza convenience to consumers around the world. They have set to accomplish their mission by being fanatical about product quality and service consistency, providing product variety to meet all customer needs, placing team member and customer safety and security above all other concerns, creating an environment in which all team members feel valued (because they are), building and maintaining relationship that rewards franchisees and other partners for their contributions. 2.0 Content A successful business is better to be first than it is to be better. If it couldn’t be in the first category, set up a new category that it can be first in as marketing is not about battle of products, it’s a battle of perceptions. Hence, the most powerful concept in marketing is to own a word in the prospect mind as 2 companies should not own the same word in consumer’s mind. ...
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...Assignment Logical Fallacies Analysis 1. Personal attack ad hominem. An ad hominem compares the qualities of the person making a claim to the qualities of the actual claim. It is when it is argued that a claim cannot be true because there is a certain lack of quality in the person providing the claim. With this fallacy, it is not the claim itself being analyzed, but the person making the claim. A “personal attack” ad hominem does exactly that – it attacks the person making a claim in order to set them in a negative light. The thought is that a claim cannot possibly be true if the person making the claim is a “bad person”. We see this in the media all of the time with politics. Often pundits in the media will claim that a politician in the opposing party does not have the “moral authority” to claim something because the politician may have been accused of doing something that the media outlet is reporting as morally wrong. A good example of this was early in Barack Obama’s presidency, and even when he was campaigning. During that time some media outlets would dispute a patriotic statement he may have made. They claimed that he could not be patriotic because there was no proof he was even an American citizen since no one had ever seen his birth certificate. This could also be considered a circumstantial ad hominem, as the media was saying that his claimed circumstances refuted his patriotism. 2. Scare tactics. Scare tactics involve trying to have people think a certain...
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...“What If the Tsarnaevs Had Been the ‘Boston Shooters’?” is a melodramatic twist on a terrorist attack. Your ability to twist a preplanned terrorist attack into a situation to support your stance on gun control is sickening. No matter which weapon the Tsarnaev brothers would have used during their attack the situation would have still been considered a terrorist attack due to their extremist Islamic beliefs (Cooper, Schmidt, and Schmidt, 2013) Mr. Cassidy it is obvious from reading your article that you have a bias and have an interest in increasing gun control. The statements you make are clear use of rhetorical analogy. An example of your use of this is, “Imagine, for a moment, that the Tsarnaev brothers, instead of packing a couple of pressure cookers loaded with nails and explosives into their backpacks a week ago Monday, had stuffed inside their coats two assault rifles—Bushmaster AR-15s, say, of the type that Adam Lanza used in Newtown”(Cassidy, 2013). A second example of your use of this tactic is, “As I pointed out the other day, numerically speaking, terrorism, especially homegrown terrorism, is a minor threat to public safety and public health. It pales in comparison to gun violence” (Cassidy, 2013). Your statements do not make equal comparisons. A terrorist attacks and gun violence can be completely different situations. Mr. Cassidy you also sprinkled the scare tactic fallacy throughout your article. A good examples you used is as follows: “Well, for one thing,...
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...suggestions and concerns has been noted, now would be an excellent time to go through and explain all of the different rules and courtesies associated with government negotiations. There are many dos and don’ts that apply to government negotiations that are not applicable in public party negotiations. Once the entire group understands the rules of the negotiation game, it is then time to establish the role that each team member will assume during the actual negotiation meeting. It is important to establish the expertise that each team member owns and the boundaries for each that everyone needs to respect. At this point, it is time to get busy assessing the team’s position on the many different negotiation objectives and developing the tactics that should be employed to achieve the best possible outcome for the customer, Florida taxpayers in my scenario....
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...A ‘Unit of Measurement' is important, whether in math, science or in acting. Plays are divided into acts, scenes and units. In theatre, a unit is the smallest actable portion in a script. A unit is the building block of conflict, and conflict is essential in drama. Scoring a script helps actors to clarify motivations, organize dramatic structure, and get specific with the nuances of the characters and the story. If scene partners score a script together, it can help get everyone on the same page. It is a tool to help actors focus their performances. There are many ways to score a script. Most modern American acting courses use a method that breaks scripts into "beats and units" and describes a character's arc in terms of "objectives, tactics and...
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...Luis Garcia Dr. Martin English 1301 24 October2013 Enemy Combatant or Terrorist?: A Designation Makeover This current “War on Terror” is not a familiar feat for the United States of America. For the past 12 years The U.S has had to constantly adapt and develop new operating procedures. The difficulty of this war derives from it not being a conventional war. We are fighting an enemy (Al Qaeda, Taliban, etc.) that has taken guerilla warfare to a whole new level. This enemy has gone from crashing planes into the Twin Towers to placing I.E.D’s (improvised explosive devices) in the streets of Baghdad without any regard to the welfare of its own civilians. There is no doubt this is a complicated war, so complicated that our nation has even struggled with the finer designation of those we are combating. “Enemy combatants” and “Terrorists” are classes we are battling with every day yet still struggling to justly categorize them in legal terms. The vagueness on the definition of “Enemy Combatant” and “Terrorist” has led to voids and abuse of these terms. This in turn has produced an inconsistency on combat operations and legal categorizations. It is often said old men declare wars and young men fight them. This is even more the case in our present conflict with there being over ten significant court cases that have shaped our rules of engagement in fighting on the battlefield (Garrison 449). It can be strongly argued that the fights in the court room are becoming as important as...
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...exploring more aggressive practices. While community policing has been perceived as a tactic that increases public effectiveness through the engagement from members of the community, and law enforcement officers with one goal in mind; public safety. Such method of deploying officers, therefore, produced a bond as well as trust between society and police officers. However, in the past ten years other tactics such as intelligence led policing (ILP) have taken all resources and forced agencies to dismantle Community Policing Officers Units. This project will...
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...of sales, sometimes result from M&A Micorbrewers: Samuel Adams, Corona and Heineken - Low volume, crafy, higher quality - The only segment that experienced growth 2. One of the “excuse” for business executives act unethically is moral relativism. What is it? Describe an example. Moral relativism is relative to some personal, social, or cultural standard and there is no one method for deciding whether one decision is better than another. Dennis Kozlowiski, who is the CEO of Tyco in 1990-2002. Tyco financed the acquisitions by taking on significant debt commitments, which by 2002 exceeded $23 billion. As Tyco expanded, some questioned the company’s ability to service its debt commitments. Other claimed that management was engaging in accounting tricks to pad its books and make the company appear significantly audited every year, and the outside accountants had detected no problems. These criticisms, which were ignored for some time, were finally shown to have some validity in 2002 when Kozlowski was forced out by the board and subsequently charged with tax evasion by federal authorities. In addition, Kozlowski used corporate asset as personal treasury, such as pay for an expensive birthday party for his wife, and to purchase an expensive Manhattan apartment and world-class art collection. 3. Between 2002 to 2005, Southwest Airlines was the only...
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...to why such heinous acts of selfishness terrorism are continuously being committed. What motivates so much hate, anger, and lack of value on other human lives? Is it race, religion, or money? One thing for sure is the common denominator and that is death. “A better understanding of the motivation of terrorists and their reasons for selecting certain modes and targets of attack can help improve the decisions to allocate resources in the fight against terrorism (Richardson, 2006 p1).” Racism; One greatly proclaimed motivational reasons for terroristic acts in the United States, but to truly have better understanding of terroristic evolution it is always best to start from the beginning. As far back as the record shows in United States history acts of terrorism is nothing uncommon. From the lynching throughout the entire South to the little talked about 1921 race riot attack on Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma. During that horrible racial fueled attack by the Ku Klux Klan (aka KKK terrorist group) and members of the Oklahoma National Guard, more than 300 African American lives were lost within sixteen hours of attack (Simons, 2011 p1). Although racist acts could be seen though out history even to today there are other terroristic motivation such as religion. In God we trust; Jesus, Allah or whomever most chose to use as motivation to commit acts of terrorism shows us that even holy and righteous beliefs can be corrupted into the plans of pain and death to innocent lives. It has had been...
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...during World War II where the tactic of choice of Germany was Blitzkrieg, which mirrored his tactics he personally developed during his combat actions in World War I. His military career peaked when he was promoted by Adolf Hitler to Field Marshal. Erwin Rommel was born into a family that had no established military tradition and of middle class joined in 1910. He entered into service as an officer cadet and entered into the German Army Officer Corps in the year of 1912. His ability to enter into the officer corps from the middle class was still a relatively new idea to the German Army. He was fortunate that Prussia from 1845 began to allow their middle class to fill their ranks due to social pressure and an expanding army and by 1912 the Officer Corps of the Imperial Army was open to the middle class. Erwin Rommel attempted to be commissioned into the artillery and was denied, he then attempted to enter into his second choice for commission with the engineers. He again was denied his commission and eventually would be assigned to the 124th Wurttemberg Infantry Regiment for his first assignment. Erwin Rommel would show one of his strongest traits as a leader early in his career and not on the battlefield or in cadet school. As a student within Cadet School he fell in love with a Lucy Mollin even after the church would condemn a marriage between the two, he would remain faithful and loyal to her in his personal life. His loyalty in his personal life easily transitioned to his...
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...dissent, but in some peaceful assembly is considered terrorism. Truly destructive forms of terrorism are political, quasi political, and religious. Political terrorists attack in hopes of changing policies, usually in reference to color, creed, or profession. Quasi political terrorism is the use of terrorist tactics for personal gain. For instance, taking a hostage is terrorizing someone, but it is not an action designed to enact wide scale change. Lastly, religious terrorism focuses on proliferating ones belief at the cost of others. Overall, terrorism is unjust and cruel; we must take stand against it. Terrorism flies in the face of diplomatic process, purposefully disrupting peace and safety in order to achieve a goal. Many terrorists consider a mission successful if hundreds of helpless, innocent women and children lie bloody in the street. A popular terrorist attack is to set off a relatively small bomb, and kill say, 30 people, and detonate a far larger one when police and medics arrive. If this problem sounds like something that does not affect you, think again. Terrorist attacks have happened literally hundreds of times in the United States. Exact figures are unclear because the line between domestic terrorism and political violence is blurred, but since 1999, there have been over 50 separate terror attacks on domestic soil according...
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...ABSTRACT The Internet has made large amounts of information available to the average computer user at home, in business and in education. For many people, having access to this information is no longer just an advantage, it is essential. Yet, connecting a private network to the Internet can expose critical or confidential data to malicious attack from anywhere in the world. This paper is intended to discuss an emerging threat vector which combines social engineering and technology. Utilizing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) convenience combined with electronic mail phishing techniques, Vishing has the potential to be a highly successful threat vector. Vishing victims face identity theft and/or financial fraud. An increased awareness about these attacks will provide an effective means for overcoming the security issues. INDEX 1. Introduction 1 2. What is Vishing? 1 3. How Vishing works? 2 4. The Problem of Trust 4 5. Vishing Characteristics 5 5.1. Type of data prone to attack 5 5.2. Data usage by the attacker 6 6. Other Attacks 6 6.1. Dumpster diving 6 6.2. Card Owner Validation 7 6.3. Handset Blackmail 7 6.4. Exploit payloads 7 7. Overcoming Vishing 7 8. Conclusion 8 References 9 1. Introduction: Many of today’s widespread threats rely heavily on social engineering techniques, which are...
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