Case Study: “The Mask” Stephen Doherty, a researcher and blogger for the Symantec Corporation, provides a case study that proves targeted attacks are growing and evolving. His case study entitled, “The Mask,” is a cyber-espionage group established in 2007 to hack, monitor and exfiltrate data from infected targets. Their method of breach uses intense spear phishing to lure the victims in using deceiving emails. In addition, The Mask coincidently enough specializes in tools that target Spanish speakers. The Mask is still present today, filled with professional hackers with an exuberant amount of resources. When targeting the victim, The Mask typically will send out an email to a recipient with what looks like legitimate PDF or Microsoft Word documents. However, this malware includes a Remote Access Trojan. This means that once the recipient opens the file, The Mask has full remote access to his or her computer. Furthermore, this tool provides full access to Word documents, encrypted files, mobile backup files and email archives, which then all the information is easily exfiltrated. Cyber-espionage is still expanding and their targets are increasingly becoming more diverse. The Mask is just one example of the accredited cyber groups with sophisticated capabilities, defense, and special tools to simply hack whomever they want. Case Study: Criminals Hit the ATM Jackpot In this case, cybercriminals discovered a new method called, Ploutus, a new way to steal money from an
African American literature from the Colonial era through Reconstruction shows how African Americans were always treated differently and many of them had to either ignore the awful things the white people said to them, or they had to hide behind a mask of someone everyone tells them to be. One of these incidences of having to just ignore society was in the folktale “’Member Youse a Nigger” when John spend his days keeping quiet and doing only the things that would set him free. While the story “The Wife of His Youth” by Charles Chestnutt and the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar were about the effects that society has on ‘colored’ people. Both stories showing how people feel it is okay to pretend to be someone that they aren’t
In the poem, “We Wear the Mask’, the narrator, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, expresses the pain African American experienced during the slave trade and how the slaves learned to suppress their emotions. The poem shows a contrast between African American’s social faces and their “bleeding hearts”. The tone of the poem is not a corrective tone, but rather an explanatory one. In considering the time period, it would make sense that the narrator would be careful about insulting the white community. In the first stanza the tone starts as explanatory in just speaking of the masquerade and state of oppression. Then the last two stanzas are very matter of fact. When the narrator sarcastically states, “Why should the world be otherwise”. Showing
Paul Laurence Dunbar, dispatches the cold troubles of African Americans in the lyrical poem, "We Wear the Mask." In this poem, Dunbar links imagery, rhythm, rhyme, and word choice to in order to institute a connection to the reader. From reading the poem, one can infer that Mr. Dunbar is speaking in general, of the misery that many people keep concealed under a grin that they wear very well. But if one were to go further and take the time to research Mr. Dunbar’s selection of this piece and the era of which this poem was written, one would come to understand that this poem focuses entirely on Paul Laurence Dunbar’s viewpoints on racial prejudice and the struggle for equality for the African-American’s of his time period. Though this
As technology is used worldwide, it is in no way hard to get your hands on, or learn how to use computers etc. One of the most significant problems with cybercrime is it’s secretive nature; many protection devices which can be cracked will not pick up that they have been, therefore the majority of cybercrime will go unnoticed for a substantial amount of time. Combined with the world wide web, hackers can use the computers to gain information from any organisation around the world, penetrating even the most impenetrable organisations to get what they want, highlighting how technology has led to the process of globalization within the criminal world.
“In Defense of Masks”, by Kenneth Gergen regards that it is not possible for humans to adequately find a coherent self identity without an aftermath. Gergen states, “to the extent that they do, they many experience severe emotional distress” when trying to do so (172). He refers to Erik Erickson, a psychologist who speaks about how self-alienation can result due to the pressures of society to individuals with various masks of identity.
“The Mask You Live In,” the 2015 documentary produced by Jennifer Siebel Newson was made to inform it’s audience which are boy and girls from aged 10 to adults that the social expectations which contemporary society sets upon males through popular culture, sports and media is very harmful. This message is not only important for the males who are negatievly impacted by the “man box” however it is harmful for everyone else in their lives as they are impacted directly. This film hopes to shed light to an issue that has been around since the militarization of civilizations when women became inferior to their male counterparts and patriarchy became the dominant approach to social norms. Through the film, we’re able to understand the term of the “manbox.” This term is societies’s rules for acting like a man; the mentality behaviours and restrictions that men and boys are socialy constructed to such as being strong, athletic, providing, aggressive and unemotional.
What are masks? One usually thinks it is an object the individual puts on and takes off.
The 2015 documentary The Mask You Live In which is written, produced, and directed by Jennifer Lynn Newson, sheds a light on the state of masculinity in our American society. The film which is not yet rated, stars different people, from various racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. These individuals are called upon to share their stories and experiences with what it means to be a man. In company with these real stories, the film also features various interviews with experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media as a way to provide empirical evidence of the film’s point of view on the state of masculinity in the United States. Newsom stated in an interview with Variety Magazine that she drew inspiration to make this documentary after she became pregnant with her son. The film aims to educate parents about how to raise their boys, and targets young men who feel like their feelings are invalidated by society.
We Wear The Mask was written in 1886 with post slavery America being the significant historical backdrop. In this poem, Dunbar explores the duality of experience of African American's at this time. The outward experience presented to the world at large - “We wear the mask that grins and lies” - versus the inward truth of suffering and turmoil - “With torn and bleeding hearts we smile”.
In We Wear the Mask, the author’s purpose is to push the reader to feel something about the way things were in his perspective.
The poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar talks about how African Americans put up an act and how they can seem ok about their social circumstances but behind it all, behind all their act there is hypocrisy and deception. This poem represents all the pretending, and the truth as painful as it can be hides behind it this masks. “We wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes” (1,2-37) In the poem the reader can have a sense of how they are not exactly doing a good job of hiding behind those masks and covering things up. They are feeling bad inside and can’t be honest about their feelings.
A mask is an object which is worn as a disguise to hide ones identity. In the poem, We Wear The Mask written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, explores the deception of ones true self in order to be accepted within society. Although the poem was published in 1913, shortly after the slavery of African Americans where Dunbar shared his own experiences with his parents being slaves, there is no confirmation of who the poem is reflecting. This is presented as the speaker communicates in first person as well as using the word choice of "we." In the opening lines: “[w]e wear the mask that grins and lies/[i]t hides our cheeks and shades our eyes” (Dunbar 1-2) reflects how on the exterior others appeared to be meek and content but in reality, they were paradigms
Adam Segal’s “The Hacked World Order” reveals many prevalent issues in today’s technologically centered society. Starting at Year Zero, June 2012 to June 2013, the battle over cyberspace witnessed world-changing cyberattacks. This was accomplished due to the fact that nearly 75% of the world’s population has easy access to a mobile phone, and the Internet connects nearly 40% of the total human population, which is nearly 2.7 billion people. With that being said, cyberattacks are becoming a more realistic form of terror.
The film The Mask You Live In was written, filmed and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. It was released on January 25, 2015 at the premiere of the Sundance Film Festival. Jennifer also released a similar film called Miss Representation, a film about what the expectations of a woman were according to the media. According to the film, using hyper-masculinity among boys and young men through parental teachings and social expectations in the United States negatively affects them psychologically as it affects their way of decision-making and become more isolated throughout their lives. I firmly agree with Newsom’s message she was trying to send out to her intended audience, the parents and our society at large communicated through statistics shown as title sequences and the testimonies coming from boys and men who were once at-risk.
By the year of 2016, investments in online security are expected to reach $86bn (Contu et al, 2012). Although this might seem a large sum of money, it is considered necessary since there is an increase in online risks from all over the world. Professional hackers develop malware on a global scale and on a 24/7 basis. Hackers have five objectives when spreading malware over the Internet: to infect/distribute, to steal, to persist, to control and for intelligence (Morris, 2010).