Cyber Security Student: Maurice Jones Class ISSC461: IT Security: Countermeasures Instructor: Professor Christopher Weppler Date: 2 August 2013 Introduction “In a future conflict, an adversary unable to match our military supremacy on the battlefield might seek to exploit our computer vulnerabilities here at home (President Barack Obama, 2012).” Technology has changed the total lifestyle of people around the world. Here in the United Stated, society’s daily lives revolve around social
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White hat hackers are the ethical, legal hackers (2002). Companies pay them to find holes in software or networks and fix the problems. The difference between white hat hackers and black hat hackers is that white hats have permission to carry out their attacks on a company to fix the problems. (2) A majority of company owners say that white hat protection is the only true way to ensue security in their businesses. White hats use the same programs and knowledge as black hats do. They usually stay
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and curiosity, while others are looking for personal gain. In this section we profile five of the most famous and interesting "black hat" hackers. Jonathan James: James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. In an anonymous PBS interview, he professes, "I was just looking around, playing around. What was fun for me was a challenge to see what I could pull off." James's major intrusions targeted high-profile organizations
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What are ethical implications of patient-clinician messaging? Throughout this article there is information given to present the reasons why it is important to utilize the online communication with physicians and patients to better communicate issues or concerns that may be crucial to the patient’s knowledge. However, working in the healthcare industry, it has been an essential way of communication for those that travel a lot or just do not want phone calls from their doctor’s office. Generally, I
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Cybercrime: Is Anonymous ethical? Lance Truesdell CIS 109 Dr. Yeates Strayer University Online May 2, 2014 The group known as Anonymous began on the chat boards of 4chan in 2003 as a group of like minded individuals working as a sort of anarchic group. In the intervening eleven years, they have been responsible for several attacks on different websites, groups and governments. Their attacks have been seen as both an act of concerned citizenry, in the cases of child pornography sites, and
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iTech 1005 Business Information Systems Tutorial 6 Assessment Task Tutorial – Friday 10.30am - 12.30pm ------------------------------------------------- Case Study 1: Cloud computing 1. Are the security arrangements for data and applications stored in the cloud the responsibility of the user or the vendor? I believe that the responsibility lies on both the user and the vendor to arrange appropriate security arrangements for the data and applications stored in the cloud. Cloud computing
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WEEK 1 DAY | MORNING SESSION09:00 – 12:00 | AFTERNOON SESSION14:00 – 17:00 | MONDAY22/06/2015 | * Higher Mathematics 1(Gym) * Business Law (RM 1) * Advanced Project Management(RM 2) * Financial reporting and control(RM 33) * Political Science/Philosophy(RM 36) * digital communications systems(RM 33) | * Electricity and Magnetism(RM 36 & 1) * Research Methodology(Gym) * Operations Management(RM 2) * Media and Communications Ethics(RM 2) * Mobile Communications(RM 2)
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intentions of the applicants who hacked into their results was not done with immoral intent. Next, the actions taken by the universities after receiving knowledge of the hacking was inappropriate and can be regarded as excessive and unfair to the students. Finally, the universities could have done a better job determining the moral and ethical integrity of the condemned students. I do agree that a student’s choice to hack into the system to discover the status of the pending application cannot be looked
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Recent Denial of Service Summary & Recommendations “DoS (Denial of Service) attacks target network bandwidth or connectivity. Bandwidth attacks overflow the network with a high volume of traffic using existing network resources, thus depriving the legitimate users of these resources. Connectivity attacks overflow a computer with a large amount of connection requests, consuming all available operating system resources so that the computer cannot process legitimate user's requests.” (EC-COUNCIL
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When you are called upon by law enforcement based on your expertise to hack into a network of a business known to be launching crimes against humanity as its primary mission for operation and capital gain thank them for givinging you the oportunity to do the job make sure you sign the necesarry documentation, protecting you from all laibility and legalities associated with the job. Now structure how you want to get you information through reconnaissance,Scanning Enumeration then Attacking and Post
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