...I think I will have many obstacles to overcome when it comes to being successful during this course. As a working professional I think everyone can relate to the demanding schedules of a 9-5 job and career that certainly extends beyond the boundaries of just the office. More often than not I find myself working from home after my son is asleep or catching up on work during the weekends in order to make deadlines in time. In addition to the demands of a full time career, I also have my family that is the most important focus in my entire life. Family time takes place after work, on the weekends going out to dinner or taking our son to see a Smurf movie but also still finding time to connect with my wife and spend time with her as well. Juggling these things would be hard enough on its own but to make things even heavier I also have further obligations like volunteering coaching high school baseball and playing baseball on Sundays in a men's recreational team. I try squeeze things like working out during my lunch time at the office so that helps but needless to say all together my life is pretty hectic. With this being said I think my biggest obstacle will be finding a way to make school my priority while not taking the quality of time I spend on the other areas in my life. I have given a lot of thought as to how I may be able to accomplish this and I really believe that as long as I stay focused, structured, and driven at all my task then I should be able to continue meeting...
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...of nowhere, smelling of freshly peeled oranges, my mother's favorite fruit. I guess I missed my mom so much that my body took control of me and I jumped into the portal. I thought this place might be my own world. I had always wanted a place that I could rule over. All I had was Gram, Pa and my 6 other sibling, me being the youngest out of them all. All I was good for was doing all the chores because they would be “too busy”. When I was in the portal, I felt nauseous looking at all the colors dancing around me and swirling objects reminding me of when Alice fell into the rabbit hole. I looked around and saw that many of the objects looked familiar. In the end of that swirly mess, I ended up on the ground in what looked like a to be a Smurf village except instead of blue the little people were lavender, my favorite color. I was smaller than an ant and I was lavender to with a white dress on. I was glad I still had my blond curly hair, that glowed in the sun like gold. I looked around the village and saw only 2 other girls there! One of the girls was the complete opposite of me. She had straight black hair and these bright, beautiful blue eyes. I thought I was being too creepy staring, so I went to ask around to see where I lived. One person believed I lived in the first house down the left on Mulberry street, while another thought I lived in the third house on the right on Silver Lane. I went to Mulberry street first, and found a giant Mushroom with a sign that read, WORTHY...
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... 09/17/2012 English 1101 A common children’s cartoon, the smurfs. The smurfs was on television on 1981. The smurfs is a popular cartoon because it’s funny in a unique way and it’s one of those cartoons that get children’s attention. One of the episodes called the smurphony, that episode was a terrific one because it had a lesson that kids could learn by watching the episode. The first part was about the 100 smurfs trying to make music but one of the smurfs was forbidden to play the music with them. He wasn’t able to play the correct note and he was mad that he can’t play the note with them. The smurf was walking and talking to himself about how mad he is and an old man who doesn’t like the smurfs heard him, so he took advantage of this. He made him a music instrument and told him if he used this instrument he will be able to play the music with them. After that the smurf went to the smurfs and started to play the note to them to show them that he got better, however the instrument was a magic instrument that makes people sleep or faint when they listen to it. The smurf felt so bad because all of smurfs fainted after he played the note. Then the smurf went back to the old man and tried to make him stop that, and while they were running after each other the old man was about to fall. He asked the smurf to help him out but he didn’t and the smurf went back to try to wake the smurfs up. So he started to play the note with his old instrument and finally they woke...
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...unrecoverable revenue associated with site downtime and possible compromise of sensitive confidential data. It is imperative today’s corporate network is configured and prepared to protect itself from external cyber-attacks. Since there is no 100% method to stop external cyber-attacks, attention to detail must be made in regards to proper configuration of the network to include state of the art hardware and software. To include current security patches for both software and hardware respectively. Additionally, hardware and software measures will be limited in their effectiveness without network policies and techniques to protect against external cyber-attacks such as Denial of Service, Distributed Denial of Service, Masquerading and IP Spoofing, Smurf Attacks, Land c Attacks, and Man-in-the-Middle attacks. In close coordination with our IS team engineers and IT network director an approved plan has been incorporated to minimize risk of an effective cyber-attack on our network. Specifically this plan covers a comprehensive review of current network design and interdependencies, Standard Operating Procedures, Emergency Operating Procedures, detailed analysis of every program, service, host, router, switch to include interaction between these services and resources. Testing current system and policies by a certified third...
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...Technology innovations have been a major source of improvement in the Energy & Resources sector with efficiency and cost control. Over the years, this growth has been enormous and evident. Significant efforts have been deployed from time to time on gaining insight into how learning on energy technologies has been acquired. Information technology (IT) has revolutionized to such an extent that it has evolved into web-based energy information with control systems. Author Capehart in his book states that “web-based systems can provide more access, flexibility, and more interoperability; and they can provide these benefits over a wider area than conventional control systems can” (Capehart, 2004, p. 9). The book gives us an insight on how the IT wave can roll over anything ranging from buildings, campuses, manufacturing plants, schools, hospitals making them more productive and cost-effective in operation. The author further explains how IT finds its usage in energy based systems called the energy information system (EIS). EIS is broad range of web-based tools that let users measure, monitor and quantify energy usage of their facilities and help them with energy conservation opportunities. The author also tells us about the various types of EIS systems namely: Basic Energy Information System (Basic EIS), Demand Response systems (DRS), Enterprise Energy Management (EEM), Web-base Energy Management and Control Systems (Web-EMCS). In another instance the author briefs the energy-saving...
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...SEC 572 iLAB 1 Denial of Service Attacks Student Name: Aloysius Jallah Professor: Mark Merkow Name of the attack Denial of service attack (DoS): According to Week 1 TCO, denial of service attack is an attack that considerably reduces the power of the network from appropriately communicating with other networks and/or endpoint users (Merkow 2015). Hence, the end result of the attack is the incapacitation of the target network … rendering it inaccessible to its anticipated end-users through the application of flooding technique. Additionally, if the attacker understands and/or discovers that an intermediary network can give off excessive traffic capacity than the victim network can manage and/or process, the attacker uses the flooding technique to transmit an enormous batch of UDP packets headed for the victim; thus, the end result of this activity can cause flooding traffic congestion and exhaustion of the connection resources of the victim. In cunning attacks, “attacking hosts can flood packets in a burst to congest and disrupt existing TCP connections” (Kuzmanovic et al, 2005). However, for every action, there is equal and opposite reaction. As knowing denial of service (DoS) attack comes into play, software developers and system administrators also come up with the mechanisms and/or solutions to combat, reduce and prevent the potential impact of malicious criminal and/or attackers. Attack discovery and resolution dates: Denial of service (DoS) attacks can be identify...
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...For purpose of network paralysis, DDoS attack occupies a lot of cyber source by sending massive number of legitimate requests. This attack mode can be divided into the following 4 categories: Disturb or block the normal network communication by making the network overload; Through a large number of requests submitted to the server, the server overload; Blocking users get access to the server; Blocking a service communicate with a particular system or person. IP spoofing is the approach that hackers send false packet to the server for deception server. Specifically, it set the source IP address in the packet to inexistence or legitimate value. The server once receiving the packet will try to return to accept the request packet. In fact this package never returns to the source computer. This approach makes the server must open their listening port continue to wait. It wasted all aspects of system resources. This mode of attack is similar to SYN floods. However, in the LAND attack attacks, the original address and the destination address in the packet are both IP address of attacked targets. This attack will cause the attacked machine falls into an infinite loop, and eventually it will run out of resources and crash. The ICMP floods sends broadcast message to the router with improper settings to keep system resources occupied. Application level floods mainly aimed at the application layer. Its purpose is consuming a large number of system resources for the purpose to persecute the...
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...Philippe Kechichian Food and Beverage What is beer? “Beer is produced by the saccharification of starch and fermentation of the resulting sugar. The starch and saccharification enzymes are often derived from malted cereal grains; most commonly malted barley and malted wheat. Un-malted maize and rice are widely used adjuncts to lighten the flavour because of their lower cost. The preparation of beer is called brewing. Most beer is flavoured with hops, which add bitterness and act as a natural preservative, though other flavourings such as herbs or fruit may occasionally be included.” Beer definition Beer is the most consumed alcoholic beverage in the world and the third-most drink overall after water and tea. The strength of beer is usually around 4% to 6% alcohol by volume although it may vary between 0.5% (dealcoholized) and 20%. Beer forms part of the culture of beer-drinking nations and is associated with social traditions such as beer festivals, as well as a rich pub culture, involving activities like pub crawling and pub games such as billiards. History The history of beer is linked with the one of its components and with the technological advances. The first cultures of cereals, especially the barley and wheat, were discovered in Mesopotamia and dated at around 8000 years before J.-C. Historians think beer was discovered 6000 years before J.-C. The first real proofs of its existence were discovered in the province of Sumer and are back to the 4th millennia...
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...Security Evaluation Matthew Williams CMGT/441 1/21/2013 Shivie Bhagan Security Evaluation My evaluation is of the paper “Why Information Security is Hard” by Ross Anderson. This paper is an evaluation that covers an economic perspective of information security in the financial industry throughout the world. Simply summed up by the statement, “The more people use a typical network, the more valuable it becomes. The more people use the phone system - or the Internet - more people there are to talk to and so the more useful it is to each user.” (Anderson, 2001) In the first paragraph Denial of Service (DOS) attacks are described as one of the issues presented by the current security incentive structure. “As an example presented the author states, “While individual computer users might be happy to spend $100 on anti-virus software to protect themselves against attack, they are unlikely to spend even $1 on software to prevent their machines being used to attack Amazon or Microsoft.” (Anderson, 2001) The statement accurately describes what I’d like to call a failure to respond to an indirect threat. Simply because a user is not directly being attacked most assume they are safe and that the statistics are in their favor. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case, like the great library in Alexandria which was destroyed and affects us all even today though indirectly. In a typical connection, the user sends a message asking the server to authenticate it. The server returns the...
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...Chapter 2 Review Questions 1. Why is information security a management problem? What can management do that technology cannot? Managing information security has more to do with policy and enforcement rather than technology. Management must address information security in terms of business impact and the cost. 2. Why is data the most important asset an organization possesses? What other assets in the organization require protect? Data in an organization represents its transaction records and its ability to deliver to its customer. Without this the organization would not be able to carry out day to day work. 3. Which management groups are responsible for implementing information security to protect the organization’s ability to function? Both management and IT management are responsible for implementing security to protect an organizations ability to function. 4. Has the implementation of networking technology created more or less risk for businesses that use information technology? Why? Networking is usually considered to have created more risk for businesses that use information security. The reason is that potential attackers have reader access to the information system. 5. What is information extortion? Describe how such an attack can cause losses, using an example not found in the text Information extortion is the act of an attacker or trusted insider who steals information from a computer system and demand compensation for its return or for an agreement...
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...medicines containing pseudoephedrine. In addition, the system also limits and tracks the amounts purchased. This law would only prevent previous offenders from purchasing pseudoephedrine. It would not stop the groups of individuals called smurfs that are doing the purchasing for methamphetamine offenders. Another approach to the issue is to make over-the-counter medicines containing pseudoephedrine a prescription-only drug for all of Indiana. This approach would help to control the purchasing of pseudoephedrine by methamphetamine offenders and the groups called smurfs who are contributing to an already enormous amount of problems. Now, there are smurfs contributing to the problem that need consideration when making changes to the laws for methamphetamine. MiddelKamp, B. (2015, February 19). “State Senator Randy Head said cooks hire multiple people to go into stores to buy the legal limits that way, the system can’t restrict purchases if they’re made by different people”. These groups are not assisting in the making of methamphetamine, but they are just as responsible. As a result, they need held accountable for their hand in the horrors of Indiana’s methamphetamine problems. By only restricting previous offenders these groups, calling themselves smurfs will continue to do the buying of pseudoephedrine for methamphetamine cooks. In...
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...DOS Attacked!!! By Ankit Fadia ankit@bol.net.in Smurf Attacks, Teardrop, Ping of Death,Land Attacks, DOS attacks, dDos, UDP Flooding Ankit Fadia __________________________________________________________________________ DOS Attacked!!! By Ankit Fadia Ankit@bol.net.in __________________________________________________________________________ Date Released: 25th June 2001 DOS Attacks or Denial Of Services Attack have become very common amongst Hackers who use them as a path to fame and respect in the underground groups of the Internet. Denial of Service Attacks basically means denying valid Internet and Network users from using the services of the target network or server. It basically means, launching an attack, which will temporarily make the services, offered by the Network unusable by legitimate users. In others words one can describe a DOS attack, saying that a DOS attack is one in which you clog up so much memory on the target system that it cannot serve legitimate users. Or you send the target system data packets, which cannot be handled by it and thus causes it to either crash, reboot or more commonly deny services to legitimate users. DOS Attacks are of the following different types-: 1. Those that exploit vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP protocols suite. 2. Those that exploit vulnerabilities in the Ipv4 implementation. 3 There are also some brute force attacks, which try to use up all resources of the target system and the services unusable. make Before I go on...
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...Michael Coschigano Network Security Some DoS attacks can be avoided by applying vendor patches to the software that has been compromised. Another way to deal with DoS attacks in the case of an attack coming from a number of known IP addresses is to put up a rule to drop all incoming traffic from those known attackers. Yet another way to deal with these types of attacks is to set up packet filters. This will act as a proxy for connections. Once the handshake is validated it will be forwarded to the correct destination instead of just forwarding the packet to the destination. TCP SYN flooding attack effects can be reduced or removed by limiting the number of TCP connections a system accepts and by shortening the amount of time a connection stays partially open. This is done by limiting the number of TCP connections made at the entry and exit points of the network structures. (Kaeo, 2004) Recently there has been a variation of a DoS attack that has caused further problems. This is known as Distributed Denial of Service attack. How this is accomplished is a number of computers are used to launch a DoS attack. The thought is that these attacks come from the external internet. One of the best ways to mitigate this is to set up a firewall between the internet and the trusted network of the corporation. The first step one should take to eliminate this type of attack it to find out precisely what type of attack it is. You want to filter these attacks by creating an access control list;...
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...Should You Listen to the Customer? Introduction Situation This case study presents the Delacroix Company which has to face with new objectives: identify new channels of distribution of their shows. Goals are setup by the member’s boards and we have three persons involved in a new challenge: should they listen to the customer feedback? Natalia it is an experimented member of the company who hired Elizabeth as an marketing responsible . They have to propose a new marketing strategy based on client feedback, but Henry fonder of the company has a different opinion. Why doesn’t Henry want to listen to the customers? Does he have a point? Are there some businesses where you should not listen to the customer? What about his Smurf comment? Henry don’t want to take in consideration client feedback because of: - His business activate in a domain where the quality of the shows generate new clients. Henry believe in his staff and their quality. Dance members are talent people which can generate best shows and also assure a profitability. - In Henry opinion , listen to the customers is not related to the direct activity (dance shows ). Delacroix company wants to go on a new road of business: film and media. So, he wants new channels of distribution. It is possible after they will enter on this channels to be oriented to direct client feedback. - He is very confident in his business and the way of do it. In my opinion I don’t think in business which don’t need customer feedback,...
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...link, physical. Transport layer is a transporter that send or transfer application messages among application endpoints. Network layer takes responsibility for moving network layer packets from one host to another. Network layer is facilitating services of delivering segment to transport layer to destination. 7. Passive security attack: wiretapping, port scanner, idle scan. Active security attack: denial of service attack, spoofing, ping flood, smurf attack. Wiretapping is a stalking of conversation (monitoring) to get information by historical. Port scanner is an application that using for investigating host for open port. Idle scan is transferring spoofed packet to computer to seeking service that available. Denial of service attack is an attack that making the network or resource unavailable to the users, which interrupting or suspending the service of host connected to internet. Spoofing is undercover program that faking a data for gaining advantages. Ping flood is simple denial of service attack with sending a ping packet. Smurf attack is distributed denial of service attack that sending ICMP packet. ...
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