Nt1330 Unit 7

The attack included the theft of customer information that would be used to manipulate the WoW accounts. The nature of the attack was such that the hackers took advantage of the Virtual Private Network (VPN) access system that makes it possible for clients to log in remotely through the use of their RSA SecurID hardware tokens. These attackers are said to possess the seeds-factory-encoded random keys that were used by the Lockheed's SecurID hardware fobs, they also possessed the serial numbers and the algorithm that is used to secure the devices making it possible to hack into the system and obtain the customer information from the system.

This incident saw the FTC identify several practices that could have possibly led to the breach. These included failure to use strong passwords, failure to employ sufficient measure to restrict system access to computers and the internet, some of which were low-cost and easy to establish measures nevertheless, the company did not carry out regular tests to assess the vulnerability of their system to the outside world, a situation that made them vulnerable to even the simplest attacked.

In June and July of 2014, the largest US bank JP Morgan Chase is again burst hacked. over 76 million household clients and over 7 million business clients of JP Morgan Chase suffered a hack of their information stored in credit card. Based on the information disclosure, the disclosure of data, including name, address, telephone number, email address and Chase internal system related information could had been stolen by hackers. In October 9th, 2014, another nine major financial institutions had been attacked by hackers. This was the largest case in Wall Street history that hackers hacked a financial institution.

It shows that there were weaknesses in each layer of defense used by Target that eventually allowed cybercriminals to gain access to some of their most sensitive data.

In June 2005 the hackers got access to the database of the organization and had information about 40 million customers. The breach happened in the organization because of one individual who is not fulfilling their roles. To prevent the breaches everyone in the organization from top to bottom and the infrastructure used must follow the security policies and they should follow the rules and accomplish their responsibilities.

Such occurrence commonly happened due to weak passwords, same or similar passwords used multiple time or had their credential information been tracked or recorded by programs. For example of such program, a key-logger. In year 2013, a dump that contains credential information data such as usernames, password hashes and password hint of millions of Adobe customers were leaked online. Table 1 contains the passwords that were published after the data was leaked and some of the passwords are being use even today. A team of hackers had managed to crack more than 14,800 random passwords out of a list of 16,449 in less than an hour in a hacking experiment for a technology website. The passwords that had been cracked includes hashed password, which the hackers had used a list of hashed password they have taken from the internet.

Their system was hacked through the credentials that were given to a refrigeration, heating, and AC subcontractor for the company.[2] This goes to prove even more so how scary these phishing attacks can be, seeing as they don't even have to beat your security to be able to gain access to your system.

Hackers are extremely clever at finding ways to get their hands on what they want. In some cases, this can include the most personal of information. According to a recent report published by the Identity Theft Resource Center, “More than 368 big data breaches have been reported in the first half of 2014” (Srinivasan 1). These are more than just individual breaches as each database may include thousands of people in each. With each case being on such large scales, the magnitude of these breaches is extremely massive. The identities and data of the people in these databases were at extreme risk. In 2011, there was a huge attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network. At the time, there was a huge amount of people – about 77 million – that

Between the period of November 27th to December 15th 2013, over 11 gigabytes of data, personal and credit card details from 70 million customers was stolen. The details were stolen mainly through the hacking of Point of Sale (POS) machines, however there was a clear structure to the attack as shown below.

He “was able to crack over 8,000 passwords by the end of the day through a little reading and help from the Internet” (Dean, Buck, & Dean, 2014). There is a potential danger of identity theft due to the ability for thieves to access online accounts. This makes it especially important that people should make their passwords difficult and not relatable to their personal lives. This is an example of the amount of information the Internet has today. There is essentially a how-to for everything. Therefore, someone with no prior knowledge of hacking can steal a person’s

The flaw allowed the secure encryption (https) to be broken can access the memory of servers and access whatever information that was protected by this encryption such as, but not limited to, usernames, passwords, contact information, credit card numbers, etc.

Generally, when a hacker attacks the personal information, in these cases the authorities suggests companies

Over 4.5 million Hospital records containing names, addresses, social security, and speculation of medical records have been stolen over the course of two months going unnoticed. Investigators say the course of the attack came from an IP address based in china. Other stolen data also included user names, passwords, and email accounts. However embassy spokesman, Geng Shuang ensures that the Chinese government enforces very strict policies and laws regarding any type of cyber-crime.

3) As mentioned in the case of Amazon, administration of account settings through the telephone for the sake of convenience was how the hacker gained control of the account.

Since 1997, companies have received hacker attacks in their systems, making some lose a significant amount of money. With this history attacks it is now important to find a method to combat them. They work stealing our passwords, using the process password cracking, which works recovering passwords from data that have been stored in or