The Internet growing technologies have created vast opportunities for business growth and likewise increased the exposures of businesses and organizations’ information assets; consequently jeopardizing the key elements of information and systems security—confidentiality, integrity and availability (Kim, Ullrich & Wang, 2012). Online criminality has over the years become a prosperous economic industry especially in the emerging markets; the perpetrators, largely motivated by financial or military
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The History of wool begins long ago, when primitive man for the first time clothed himself in the woolly skins, of the sheep he killed for food. The sheep could be milked (and still is, in many parts of the world).However man soon understood that to kill the sheep for its meat alone was a waste of food and material. Man had realized when the sheep shed its fur the material could be spun and knitted into cloth. Then he became a shepherd with the help of his friend the dog- probably the only animal
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Computer and Network Security Abstract Facebook began in 2004 as a kind of online directory for undergraduates at Harvard University, created and launched by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg et al. Two months later, the site expanded to include other Ivy League schools. After that, the college network slowly grew and by the end of 2010, Facebook has over 500 million active users. Facebook is social networking. People have been “facebooking” each other for about 6 years now, making Facebook the
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to determine the security of an information technology environment – at least from a technical point of view. As the name ethical hacking already tells, the idea has something to do with hacking. But what does “hacking” mean “The word hacking has two definitions. The first definition refers to the hobby/profession of working with computers. The second definition refers to breaking into computer systems. While the first definition is older and is still used by many computer enthusiasts(who refer
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gun to your head, nor does heransack your personal possessions. Just the same he's a thief. Although thisthief is one you'll not only never see, but you may not even realize right awaythat he's robbed you. The thief is a computer hacker and he 'enters' your homevia your computer, accessing personal information -- such as credit card numbers-- which he could then use without your knowledge -- at least until you get thatnext credit card statement. Richard Bernes, supervisor of the FBI's Hi-Techsquad
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Introduction Today’s world computer crimes are internet related, and in this area carrying out law barriers are either not well defined or most of the countries they don’t have arraign cyber crime laws. Those laws deliver the absence of the safe, the only substitute is protection against apparent warning exists is to develop ones own, depend on constitutional protection, a big range, and ethics to reduce constitutional entrance. Establishing information systems are grater speed than process of
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Network Security Network security is a serious matter. A network allows you to share you to share information and resources, but it also lets computer viruses, human intruders, or even disgruntled employees do far more damage they could on a single machine, imagine what would happened to a company if all is data vanish, then you would understand why network security is so important to a company. Network can be group into Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Networks, Internetwork (Internets) all
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Computers and the software used to operate them in my opinion are the most fascinating tools created by man. As a result of the computer arise all kind of computer viruses and hackers which intrigued me even more so I decided to study in the field of network security. During this learning process, I would to obtain a vast knowledge of the different kinds of computer viruses; how these programs are written by hackers and the security programs used to track down and apprehend these criminals. Michael
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cyber security hacking is a widely used term, the law, punishment, rules and law are not fully developed yet. First, the cyber hacking laws in three countries are going to be reviewed. The cyber hacking laws of US is also known as “Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ” was released by the congress in 1986. In the documentation, it provides the laws to protect personal intellectual property on computer. Basically, it says that people should get punishment by accessing an authorized computer. Here
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[pic] Password Security And Other Effective Authentication Methods [pic] Table of Contents Introduction 1 User Accounts 1 Account and Password Policy 2 Password Attacks 4 Authentication Methods and Password Management 5 Public Key Infrastructure 6 Single Sign-On (SSO) 6 One-Time Password (OTP) Tokens 7 Biometrics 7 Fingerprints 7 Face Scans 7 Retina Scans 7 Iris Scans 7 Palm Scans 8 Hand Geometry 8 Heart Patterns 8 Voice Pattern Recognition 8
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