true intentions of ethical hackers. The paper also looks at ways in which future research could be looked into to help keep ethical hacking, ethical. Keywords— Ethical hacking, hacking, hackers, education and training, risk management, automated security I. INTRODUCTION Understanding the true intentions of the general public is quite a hard task these days, and it is even harder so, to understand the intentions of every single ethical hacker getting into vulnerable systems or networks. Technology
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used on webservers like Apache, Sun Java System Web servers. The .htaccess is also used as a firewall or in other words to specify security for certain directories to be accessed by the users like with password access and it is also used to block the access of the search engine spiders. If the configuration of a server is not properly set then it can lead to security concerns. Question #2: Make sure that your CGI script “simple.cgi” as described in the Lab 6 is working. Answer #2: Question
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or aware of it. People like Ashley are suing data brokers that “sold consumer profiles to other companies without taking steps required under the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act to protect consumers” (Gross, 2012). Digital consumer monitoring is a breach of privacy that needs to be addressed. Personal data is being collected and sold without consumer consent, and the current regulatory environment is weak. As this issue becomes more prominent, a variety of solutions have been proposed, such as personal
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Private security is an absolute necessity as part of our country’s homeland security. After the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, the concept of “homeland security” truly came into a whole new focus. Prior to this tragic incident, the abundance of security vulnerabilities that existed in our country were not as well known or as well publicized. Furthermore, it was just assumed and expected that the public sector was quite capable of handling our domestic security needs. This could not have
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July 1, 2011 I. Introduction Due to the increasing vulnerability to hacking in today’s changing security environment, the protection of an organization’s information security system has become a business imperative . With the access to the Internet by anyone, anywhere and anytime, the Internet’s “ubiquitous presence and global accessibility” can become an organization’s weakness because its security controls can become more easily compromised by internal and external threats. Hence, the purpose
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Mechanical Turk, which gives users access to an on demand workforce. The Apple Corporation has just come out with an application for the Iphones that will allow them use cloud computing faster and easier. Google have started using Cloud computing. Google’s cloud enables faster collaboration. Google application is stored in the cloud not on employee computers, so
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A. Integrity of Network Security Introduction New security policy created for e-mail will ensure e-mails are used for business purpose and limits personal usage of e-mails. Policy also permits Softsearch to monitor employee’s e-mails if required. Controls implemented by e-mail policy will help prevent confidentiality breach. However, e-mail policy does not govern attachments within e-mails. Policy should be enhanced to include e-mail attachment specific statement to prevent employees from opening
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Privacy is a valuable interest and is now threatened more than ever by technological advances. Privacy is defined as the ability to control the collection, use, and dissemination of personal information (Fast Trac Course ). At one time people could once feel confident that what others may find out about them would be treated in a way that it would probably do any harm. Information technology has been beneficial for privacy. By having access to ATMs and online banking we rarely have to present ourselves
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Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) (Turim-Nygren). Although they all function similarly, they take on their own roles and process information differently. The most commonly known is cloud storage such as Dropbox and Google Drive, which are categorized as SaaS. The pros and cons of cloud computing have been debated over the past decade, and individuals and businesses alike have weighed the good against the bad when choosing whether to use it to store and process their
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5/31/2011 LEVERAGING CLOUD COMPUTING FOR GREATER BUSINESS AGILITY Ramesh Shanmuganathan Executive Vice President / Group CIO 1 John Keells Group 4 th June 2011 AGENDA TODAY’S BUSINESS CONTEXT DEMYSTIFYING CLOUD COMPUTING WHY CLOUD COMPUTING? WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS? WHAT DO I NEED TO CONSIDER? HOW DO I GET ON BOARD? CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR KEY TAKE AWAY! 2 TODAY’S BUSINESS CONTEXT 3 1 5/31/2011 Today’s Business Context ►Global competition ►Rampant
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