Information Security : A Remote Desk Protocol ( Rdp )

Information security is the protection of information against accidental or malicious disclosure, modification or destruction. Information is an important, valuable asset of IDI which must be managed with care. All information has a value to IDI. However, not all of this information has an equal value or requires the same level

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The hotel computer system had been compromised and thousands of individual credit card numbers were stolen. These credit cards were used all over the world and would cost the companies tens of thousands of dollars in retribution to the actual cardholders. The Secret Service agent, who looked more like a cover girl than an agent, implied that it would be unlikely the perpetrator would actually be caught. The cyber attack was something new to the world and extremely hard to track. Japes was informed that the hotel would receive a fine, and that funds would be held in escrow in the amount of a quarter-million dollars. He didn 't realize that the company transferring the funds from the hotel to the bank would arbitrarily take the money. In essence, the hotel would receive no revenue from its credit card transactions for nearly two weeks. The hotel contracted one of the few firms in the country to come into the hotel and analyze the data breach, which in turn would then report directly to the Secret Service, the franchise, and to the credit card companies. The young four-eyed geek, who flew in from the Midland Region was twenty-five years old. He was a typical geek analyst and knew the ins and outs of all the computer systems. Japes worked him as best he could, establishing a quick relationship and attempting to decipher what happened. Although the geek couldn 't say officially what was wrong, he soon recognized the malignant software cleverly attached through the Internet

A management factor that contributed to these problems was from the work of highly skilled professionals. When employees don’t take the problem seriously and being alert for hacking incidents and other network vulnerabilities, cyberattacks go unnoticed until its too late. In some cases, people may override them and get access into the malware to enter systems just like OPM. The organizations whether they’re public or private continue to not plan for security before building any computer systems that immune cyber-attacks. The OPM had been warned multiple times of security failures and vulnerabilities. The OPM has been reported for persistent deficiencies in its information system security program, incomplete security authorization, weak testing controls, and inaccurate plans of action. A technology factor contributed to this problem is tracing the identities of attackers through cyberspace. Security experts believe that the breach problem involved the OPM’s failure to prevent remote break-ins (Rice, 2015). They fail to keep the system secure highly so that users cannot easily hack through the

In 2014, one the country’s largest home improvement companies Home Depot was attacked by hackers. The hackers used a vendor’s stolen log-on credentials to penetrate through the company’s network and installed a custom built malware that stole credit card data and email addresses. The attack allowed the hackers to gain access to 56 million credit and debit cards in the US and Canada, and another 53 million e-mail address were also stolen.

Company A agreed to cooperate with investigators not knowing that their systems had been breached. Ubizen’s investigators began to search through the company’s servers and found that the information had in fact come from their systems (Sartin, 2014). Company A was storing magnetic strip information on its servers. That type of information was not to be stored on their systems. Further investigation led to the discovery of software not stored on their system by an administrator (Sartin, 2014). This was a backdoor program called HackerDefender. This information made it seem that it was not an inside job, but rather the work of a cybercriminal hacking the network from the outside (Sartin, 2014).

The first article deals with ransomware, whereas the hacker tries to hijack your computer, and ask for money in return for a crypto key to unlock your computer and files. Forensics’ come into play by you notifying the local police or FBI of the problem, and they will come to your organization and collect the evidence and analyze the information, and try to track down where it came from, and who is behind it, but first you must secure the computers that the breach was done on and keep it for them to investigate.

I like your take on the lessons learned from the Ransomware attack especially the emphasis on being cautious about phishing. The impact of phishing falls on everyone, however, the worst part is that though phishing is now more than a decade old, many people are still not familiar with how it works and still fall victim to its scam. The main reason why phishing continues to be a successful method of attack is because anti-phishing technologies are often created to counteract phishing by applying technical solutions rather than addressing the human source of the problem (Steinberg, 2014). Cyber criminals use the victims’ computer systems to set up viruses and worms and disseminating phishing emails further to their contacts. I think

1. An employee for CareGroup had managed to trigger a large data transfer that compromised the services and functionality of the majority of the hospital group’s IT systems. Specifically, the large data transfers managed to monopolize the centrally located network switch, causing all of the data to be halted, unresponsive to queries from users or other network components.

In this case, the focus is on the unpatched Windows computer which are susceptible to this ransomware. Some of the older Windows operating system like Windows Vista, XP or even internet explorer 8 you will not receive some critical patches for your system. The attack does not seem to be a targeted one. When the systems are found unpatched the WannaCry can spread itself inside the corporation networks without the need of user interaction. The reason here being that the likely cause of this type of spread is a worm. This worm spreads itself is infected and attaches to a network. IT has spread from Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan and many other countries. Some common targets include the healthcare sector. The reason being they have poor cybersecurity. Staff is more vulnerable to attacks like phishing, since they tend to click on links without thinking about it twice. One of the main reasons this affected them a lot was by not having any backup

For over a week, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has been under ransom by a virus called “ransomware.” This “ransomware” targets random computer systems and encrypts the contents of the computer. The virus then demands a ransom for the return of the encrypted data. The Atlantic says, “Using publicly available encryption methods, an attacker can lock up the contents of a device so effectively that even the FBI has given up on decryption efforts in the past.” “Ransomware” has been known for attacking establishments possessing crucial data. The program has attacked police departments in Tennessee, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire with a maximum ransom of $750. The Atlantic states, “Those departments paid because the data they’d lost was

Ransomware first entered the online space in 1989 when the AIDS Trojan a.k.a. PC Cyborg designed by Joseph Popp was introduced. AIDS Trojan is the first file-encrypting threat to encrypt the user’s files on the hard drive and demand money to unlock them. Since then, ransomware has evolved so much that a single ransomware piece – Crypto wall, has cost the world economy $18 million in less than a year. To put it in other words, Crypto wall’s creators have made millions of dollars while extorting money from individuals and

In February 2014, there was a multi-bank cyber heist which was discovered by Kaspersky Lab. According to the report, the hackers infiltrated banks’ network system using tactics such as phishing to gain access to sensitive data which was used to siphon money from banks. It was reported that, the cybercriminal ring, known as Carbanak, siphoned more than $1 billion from banks around the world (Kuranda). According to other sources, the criminals were not arrested and there were reports of attempted attacked to other financial institution. So, the information technology security experts are on high alert to prevent future attacks. The discovery of the attack on Kaspersky lab, which was named “Duqu 2.0”, revealed a major threat to the information technology system (Kuranda). Kaspersky Lab is Moscow-based security vendor which provide data security system to many organization around the globe. So, such breach means a major threat to banks as well.

The fight against hackers and cyber crime is a global problem and nationally and internationally, the threats they caused have been recognized and acknowledged.

As European authorities are slowly making their way back from a wide spread ransomware cyber-attack that also struck Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), local experts say that South African companies and government should be prepared for the attack. Hackers encrypt your PC and the only way to unlock your PC and gain access to your files again is to pay a ransom of between R4 000 and R8 000. The cyber-attack exploits a weakness found in Microsoft Windows.