Computer Espionage” book) stumbled upon a $ 0.75 accounting error and the revelations that followed, its potential findings, risks and costs associated and why it is important to address and fix those security holes. Cuckoo’s Egg is an interesting read and the author was successful in presenting to his readers the picture of beginning of Internet days (arpanet, then), network practices then. Despite of the fact that this book describes a real incident that in 1980’s, some of the findings are relevant
that the Internet continues to spread its influence to further parts of the world. The internet gives benefits to anyone who uses the global-reaching technology. People are now able to connect to other individuals who they otherwise would not have met and share vast amounts of information in only a few seconds. However, some people with malicious intent uses that technology to harm or even destroy the rest of the population’s lives. In such a situation, communities with access to the Internet raise
Uses of Information Security Concepts in everyday work It is almost 100% certain that the reader of this article has been using technology to enhance his or her business in one way or the other. However, unfortunately, only few people know how to apply technology, especially information security concepts in their everyday work. Over the years, technology has undergone huge transformation, and information security has become one of the major discussion topics on the internet due to the way hackers
organizations uncertainties were dealt with at the required level. One example was when Triple Canopy entered into contractual negotiations with the Marine Corps Chain-of-Command for security operations in Helmand Province. The US Army has extensive experience working in conjunction with various security companies for security operations, however with the Marines this was a whole new experience so there were wide-range of uncertainties. Those were dealt with at the appropriate level of the managerial team
If people value their privacy, why do they share personal information on their Facebook pages and in their blogs? Most people who post personal information on Facebook believe they know who has access to their personal information. Generally, they intend the information to be for friends or maybe groups (people of a shared interest). From the conversations that I have had with work associates, I find many, if not most are unaware of the complexity of setting the permissions of who get to see what
Detecting ARP Spoofing Ordinarily, we would have used Splunk to detect this attack, but we couldn’t find the right networking data being sent to Splunk and didn’t want to bother Ryan :), so we used Wireshark to show, to an extent, what we would have discovered in Splunk. The screenshot in figure 3-9 shows the traffic we captured in Wireshark. The info section of the packets shows that it detected the duplicate use of the 10.10.10.6 IP address (the Windows 7 victim machine). It can see this because
Shortage of security professionals The President of the USA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recognize October as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). The group’s purpose is to focus on increasing awareness on cyber security as well as consumer and enterprise security practices. So it should be no surprise that recent cybersecurity threats in previous weeks provided reality checks for businesses along with the consumer sector that cannot be ignored. DDoS attacks are growing
Electronic communication privacy act • The government has set new standards to obtain digital information of citizens introduced in 1986. The law has not changed, but the technology dramatically. ( 'US public-private partnership for cyber-security ', 2010). The government has privilege to get electronic data without needing a warrant. Some sort of movement launched against it to bring a small variation, but the debate is still going on. Cyber intelligence sharing and protection act • This law
strong and well-structured secondary market is the hub of capital market, which bears paramount importance in the economic development of a country. The secondary market, also known as the aftermarket, is the financial market where previously issued securities and financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, options, and futures are bought and sold. The growth and development of stock market in a market economy largely depends on stable political environment, investment sensitive tax and regulatory environment
Information Security As the world migrates to the digital village, a lot of digital data and information is generated and transmitted. In the same line, there is a growing need for data repositories or data banks. Information security is chiefly concerned about prevention, detection and response to computer threats or risks (CISCO, 2013). Protecting organizational information and systems is a daunting task because of the emerging and advanced threats to information technology resources. Securing