What Is Research Design

How : Hackers gained access to the user records in the database by using a password cracking tool. Passwords which were disclosed are weakly encrypted using outdated hashing technique without salting the password and this has made hacker's job easier to convert the encrypted passwords with no less than 2 hours.

For this experiment, there were several independent variables and several dependent variables that Kassin and Kiechel (1996) focused on. The participants’ level of vulnerability was one independent variable. This took the form of the rate that the confederate read the letters with the help of a mechanical metronome. A mechanical metronome was used to set the pace for reading. The slower pace was set at 43 letters per minute, and the faster pace was set at 67 letters per minute. The other independent variable was the use of false incriminating evidence. This was accomplished by having the confederate state whether or not she saw the participant press the “ALT” key. For this experiment, witnessing the action was considered false incriminating evidence (Kassin & Kiechel, 1996).

The purpose of this paper is to touch on the issue of Hacking. It will go into detail about the history, evolution, future and prevention of Hacking. In addition, this paper will discuss different types of hackers and their motivation behind hacking. This paper examines the major impact caused by malicious hackers and give modern examples of such attacks. To conclude, it will predict how hacking will be in the near future and give the precautionary measures Information Security professionals can take to mitigate the risk of being victimized.

Cryptanalysis is the study of analyzing information systems in an attempt to learn the secluded aspects of the systems. It is used to break cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages. In The Code Book, it analyzes how people can invade your internet privacy even if you code your information. Viruses on the internet can decipher subsequent messages and programs such as the Trojan Horse can appear as a genuine encryption product, but which actually betrays

One of the other failures that the book presents us is the user’s weak password practice and how the intruder took advantage of this is to gain super user privileges and created several user accounts by gaining root privileges. All it takes is a one-time access as super user to establish his base into the defenders zone. This book describes how the intruder took advantage of brute force method to hack user accounts and password. Also, the intruder was smart enough to steal the password information file and even managed to encrypt all the dictionary words by using the same encryption algorithm and then compared those words with the stolen encrypted passwords file to find out passwords of user accounts. The scientists/ researchers at the laboratories who are not aware of such kind of exploitations made intruder’s work easy by having easy to guess passwords, never bothered to change the passwords from time to time or in fact did not realize the importance of having strong passwords in order to maintain and protect their research data in a safe and secure way. Even today, not all the users realize the importance of having strong/secure passwords and we come across such instances where intruders exploit users ignorance. (For example, Two years ago, before I enrolled in MS-CS program, I did not know how brute force attacks work or

The word hacking, usually associated with information technology, is a term used for the development of creative solutions for a problem by someone in a non-professional environment. With the introduction of personal computers and the internet, anyone could create solutions to problems in computer science. This led to the emergence of “hacker culture”, leading to the decentralization of computer industry (Hicks, 2014).

The combination of the password and the complexity directly lead to its unpredictability. With 8 character complex passwords, with current GPU processing power a password can be broken in less than 26 days by exhausting all possible combinations.

on the success and the process time of the dictionary attack. These passwords are based from

This Next Unit of Computing PC fits right in your palm, but the Intel NUC 5i3RYH PC has all the capabilities of a full-sized desktop computer. It comes with an Intel Core i3 Dual-core processor that can reach processing speeds of up to 2.1GHz. You can even equip this computer with up to 16GB of RAM, so you can always sure that your system will be speedy. When it comes to graphics, the Intel NUC Kit i3 is integrated with Intel HD Graphics, which can support 4K displays. This is great for creative professionals and users who want to get the most amazing viewing experience possible.

Running on an Intel Premium Dual Core G3420T processor, the ProDesk 600 G1 can run up to 2.7 GHz of data, especially with the aid of its 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM, at speeds of 1600 MHz. With this much power running your system, you can easily launch and access your apps and data at quick and consistent rates. Store your important data and files in the desktop’s 500 GB internal hard drive, which uses 7200 rpm disks for additional speed. Intel HD Graphics 2500 provides competitive graphic processing for multimedia tasks.

CPU i5-6600: We chose the new 6th generation intel skylake core because of the higher performance that comes with the newer generation. We also chose the i5 instead of the i7 because there was no room in the budget for the i7 unless the money is wasted into bottlenecking. In addition, we chose the quad core processors because most games are only beginning to adapt to perform on quad core processors which means an 8 core processor would be unnecessary and overly expensive. Lastly the 3.9 GHz should be fine in stress conditions and is only 0.1 GHz slower than its i7 counterparts.

This utilizations two sorts of assaults Dictionary assault and Brute Force Attack for hacking wifi passwords.

35. Password-cracking can be accomplished by intelligent guessing on the part of the hacker or through the use of an automated __________ attack. Dictionary

-evaluate the impact of such a breach on the security of confidential information and on the infrastructure of the website.

People are the most directly affected by the study of the computer security. They remain as the weakest link if Counter Measure of the McCumber’s Cube is not properly implemented on them.