Week 10 Writing Assignment EG371 Chapter13, “Applying Principles of ‘Science Learning’ to your textbook focuses on analyzing an article suggesting that steroid use in baseball is at epidemic proportions. The goal of this report is to define that it is impossible find definitive evidence in support of one view over all competing views and usual subject sometimes you have to dig a bit deeper. This assignment was created to reinforce your developing research skills for critical decision making
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Laura Mason 2/5/2014 The Bad Samaritan This story is very sad and unbelievable. In my opinion this story is that this young man as the friend should be convicted with his best friend. The reason way the friend should be convicted also is because he saw every detail of the situation; however he is guilty of the crime for not reporting it as soon as it happen and when it was happening; therefor he is guilty for the 7 year old child death. My heart is heavy after this story has come to my attention
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Unit 4 Assignment 1 An access control plan is a must have due to the “cyber society” we live in today. Without a concrete plan your organization is vulnerable to various cyber attacks that may cause to be detrimental to your company. The main objective to the access control plan is to minimize the probability of negative events. In order for this plan to be effective your must have an efficient and reliable process of identifying, analyzing, and responding to specific events prior to them happening
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Asymmetric Encryption Encryption that uses two keys: if you encrypt with one you may decrypt with the other MD5 Message Digest 5. A hashing funciton used to provide integrity. MD5 uses 128 bits. A hash is simply a number created by applying the algorithm to a file or message at different times. The hashes are compared to each other to verify that integrity has been maintained. IPSec 1) Set of protocols developed to support the secure exchange of packets IPv4 and IPv6 2) Operates at
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Week 1 Assignment 1: Top Security Threats Brandon Bostic According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report released in 2010 there was over 286 million security threats that plagued PC users. There was a 93% increase in web attacks and 6,258 new vulnerabilities identified. Based on this report there were 5 major threats that plagued PC users. One major threat was targeted attacks known as Stuxnet. Stuxnet includes exploit code that uses a number of zero-day vulnerabilities. Targeted attacks
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Hacking and Countermeasures IS4560 Unit 1 Assignment 1 July 26 2016 Hacking and Countermeasure Here are some of the top threats described in the whitepaper and why the threats are important issues and how these threats have changed or are changing. The main issues that I found were Web browser vulnerabilities and SQL-injection attacks. These types of threats are found often and hackers exploit them all the time. One of the most known browsers
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IS4560 Unit 1 Assignment 1 Web-based attacks – the increasing pervasiveness of Web browser applications along with increasingly common, easily exploited Web browser application security vulnerabilities has resulted in the widespread growth of Web-based threats. Attackers wanting to take advantage of client-side vulnerabilities no longer need to actively compromise specific networks to gain access to those computers. Instead, they can focus on attacking and compromising websites to mount additional
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IS4560 Hacking and Countermeasures I was assigned the task of reviewing top malware threats reported by the McAfee Anti-Virus Corporation. The purpose of investigation reporting is to understand the typical lifecycle of new malware and how the threat presented by malware can change over time. Malware Capabilities and Description Virus Profile: FakeAlertAVSoft This Binary is Trojan fake alert, as the name, this Trojan gives fake alerts to the compromised user system. This creates a mirage
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1. It is critical to perform a penetration test on a web application prior to production implementation in order to catch any issues before the application hits the internet and open to malicious attacks. 2. A cross-site scripting attack enables attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users. 3. A reflective XSS attack the attack is in the request itself or the URL. 4. The common method of obfuscation used in most real world SQL attacks are methods, including character
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Shaun Howard IS4560 – Hacking and Countermeasures Unit 2 Assignment 1 September 30, 2014 1. _________ type of certificate is used to provide security on Web sites. a. SSL 2. __________ is the most common public key encryption systems and, in most cases, this relies on manual trust and key distribution. b. PKI 3. __________ provides authentication or proves integrity of a digital message. c. MAC 4. ___________ encryption scheme was broken and was replaced
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