CHAPTER 3 CO M P U TE R A N D I NT E R N E T C R IME QUOTE In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you’re linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. —Dennis Miller, Saturday Night Live, U.S. television show VIGNETTE Treatment of Sasser Worm Author Sends Wrong Message Unleashed in April 2004, the Sasser worm hit IT systems around the world hard
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Cloud Computing Benefits, risks and recommendations for information security Rev.B – December 2012 2 Cloud Computing Benefits, risks and recommendations for information security Document History Date December 2009 Version 1.0 Modification Initial Release, Rev.A Author Daniele Catteddu, Giles Hogben Thomas Haeberlen Lionel Dupré December 2012 2.0 Rev.B About ENISA The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) is a centre of network and information
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communications systems, van Elckradiation115 listeners and so on. Cyberwar consists of information terrorism, semantic attack, simulation warfare and Gibson warfare. Typically Cyberwar is warfare, or hostile influence between attack- and defence programs in computers, computer networks and communication systems. For many, the term cyber war conjures up images of deadly, malicious programmes causing computer systems to freeze, weapon systems to fail, thwarting vaunted technological prowess for a bloodless
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terrorisme, from Latin word 'terror', "great fear", "dread", related to the Latin verb terrere, "to frighten". Cyber terrorism denotes unlawful attacks and threats of attack against computers, networks and information stored therein to intimidate or coerce a government or its people for propagating hidden political or unlawful social and religious agendas. These attacks result in violence against persons or property or cause public unrest. Few examples could be explosions, plane crashes and severe losses
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com/p/law-for-computer-crimesand-economic.html” Many analysts believe, however, that small business owners are less likely to take steps to address the threat of computer crime than are larger firms. Indeed, many small businesses admit that they are passive about the threat because of costs associated with implementing safeguards and the perception that computer "hackers" and other threats are far more likely to pick on bigger companies. But as Tim McCollum flatly stated in Nation's Business, "companies increasingly are
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breaching our basic right to privacy, respect and freewill. The constant issues highlighted by the media always reporting some type of cyber crime, a study showing that nearly 90% of attacks happen on the inside [1] raising concerns of how easy it is to be working on the inside to be able to infiltrate attacks. Has ethical hacking finally come to the rescue for solving the problems or has it created new ones? 2. DISCUSSION A. Education and training The problem of teaching students to hack
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controversy, breaching our basic right to privacy, respect and freewill. The constant issues highlighted by the media always reporting some type of cyber crime, a study showing that nearly 90% of attacks happen on the inside [1] raising concerns of how easy it is to be working on the inside to be able to infiltrate attacks. Has ethical hacking finally come to the rescue for solving the problems or has it created new ones? 2. DISCUSSION A. Education and training The problem of teaching students to hack is
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Food strives to ensure their customers are happy and stay shopping at their stores. Kudler Fine Foods is starting a frequent shopper program. The new program will require a new system that Kudler will need to design and secure. First potential security threats need to be identified. Throughout the system development, process security will need to be considered. Kudler will need to address concerns if the new system is ever removed. Information security policies will need to be developed to
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Service as a Service - Asymmetrical Warfare at Its Finest Introduction Denial of service attack becomes a major problem against computers connected to the Internet. DoS attacks involves exploiting any bugs in such an operating system or any existed vulnerabilities in TCP/IP implementation. Tracking this attack becomes very serious problem, because the attacker uses many machines in order to lunch this kind of attack. On the other hand, since the attackers are human being at least one mistake will occurred
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Sample Email to myself Special Publication 800-61 Revision 2 Computer Security Incident Handling Guide Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Paul Cichonski Tom Millar Tim Grance Karen Scarfone Computer Security Incident Handling Guide Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Paul Cichonski Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD
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