Cyber-crimes: A Practical Approach to the Application of Federal Computer Crime Laws Eric J. Sinrod† and William P. Reilly†† I. Introduction Cyber-crime, once the domain of disaffected genius teenagers as portrayed in the movies “War Games” and “Hackers,” has grown into a mature and sophisticated threat to the open nature of the Internet. “Cyber-criminals,” like their non-virtual traditional criminal counterparts, seek opportunity and are attracted to vacuums in law enforcement. The
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comes in all shapes, sizes, and specification. All are meant to make a network more secure, but where to start? Is it a software driven firewall or hardware bases firewall used? Which type of firewall; database, network based, host bases, or application bases? What are the differences between them, how they work or what they actually do? Will it do more harm than good? It can all be very confusing when trying to protect a network and figure out which firewall is best fit. All of these are very
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is to detect a DDoS attack to a HTTP server. Usually, user’s browsing behaviours are made up of a series of webpages which consists of and HTML document and some in-lne object which comprises a huge number of web documents and hyperlinks and the way a user accesses the web pages. Regarding the first factor, the Web site can be best characterized by analyzing the connectivity of the Web pages and the number of the in-line objects in each page. Based on this connectivity, a Web user can follow a series
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SECURITY WEAKNESSES FOR QUALITY WEB DESIGN Contents Course........................................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Abstract ..........................................................................................................................................
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introduced to deliver various degrees of data efficiently through mobile devices, applications and machines in order to stimulate productivity. There are three main types of remote access, namely Basic, Advances and Enterprise. In this paper, we will focus on Enterprise Remote access. Some of the advantages of Enterprise Remote access are; Increased high availability required for different and high volume application Remote access maintains and controls the high usage of the network. It also consistently
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ability to suggest proper security tools that can avoid attacks on the networks. Hacking tools can be used for email systems, data bases and voice over internet protocol applications in order to make communications securely. Ethical hacking can also be known as penetration testing which can be used for networks, applications and operating systems (Jeff Forristal and Julie Traxler, 2001). Using hacking tools is a best method for identifying the attacks before it effect the entire organization. Ethical hackers
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SECURITY WEAKNESSES FOR QUALITY WEB DESIGN INTRODUCTION 3 ABSTRACT 3 COMPANY BACKGROUND 3 SOFTWARE WEAKNESSES 4 EMAIL SERVER WEAKNESSES 4 SOLUTION 4 DATABASE WEAKNESS 5 SOLUTION 5 HARDWARE RELATED WEAKNESSES 6 HARDWARE WEAKNESSES 6 SOLUTION 6 HARDWARE POLICY WEAKNESSES 6 SOLUTION 7 REFERENCES: 8 INTRODUCTION A company that deals with making web site and web business solutions is known as Quality Web Design (QWD). The company provides its customers to provide an
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Securing Cisco Routers (SECR) Glossary A AAA ABEND Access Access attacks Authentication, Authorization, Accounting. Allows all facets of user security to be defined on a central server. Abnormal END. Abnormal termination of software. 1.) In dealing with network security it is an all-encompassing term that refers to unauthorized data manipulation, system access, or privileged escalation. An all-encompassing term that refers to unauthorized data manipulation, system access, or privileged escalation
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Securing Information Systems LEARNING OBJECTIVES C H A P T E R 7 STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES After completing this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions: 1. Why are information systems vulnerable to destruction, error, and abuse? What is the business value of security and control? What are the components of an organizational framework for security and control? What are the most important tools and technologies for safeguarding information resources? 2. 3.
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The protocol was first specified June 1980 and updated in RFC 959,[2] which is summarized here.[5] The server responds over the control connection with three-digit status codes in ASCII with an optional text message. For example "200" (or "200 OK") means that the last command was successful. The numbers represent the code for the response and the optional text represents a human-readable explanation or request (e.g. ).[1] An ongoing transfer of file data over the data connection can be aborted
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