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    Physical Security Attack on Sony Pictures Sony Pictures is one of the American entertainment company, which was founded on December 21st, 1987. At first it was called as Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc., later in August 7th 1991, it was named as Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., also known as Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures suffered its first breach in 2011, where one million user accounts were hacked. But the hack happened on November 2014, included 100 terabytes of data being stolen and it effected

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    of Service(DoS/DDoS) Overview • A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack)/distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt of making a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. • The purpose of DoS attacks is to consume all of its resources or force the targeted computer to reset so that it can no longer provide its intended service. Spoofing/Masquerading Overview • To gain an illegitimate advantage, a spoofing attack is a situation in which one person or program successfully

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    militants claimed responsibility for the double attacks on Turkish nationals in Istanbul. In the first attack on November 15, members of an al-Qaeda cell in Turkey slammed two truck bombs into Turkish synagogues. The explosion killed 27 people and injured 300. Five days later, suicide bombers executed on attack the headquarters of HSBC Bank Turkey and the British Consulate. The attack left 30 people dead and over 400 wounded. The following March, a terrorist attack hit Madrid. A local cell of al-Qaeda operatives

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    Denial of Service attack (DoS attack) are attacks making the computer unusable and the programs unavailable as systems flood a user’s bandwidth Historically, a computer system is overloaded with false requests and data, causing the system to go into shock and crash. The multiple attacks from different IP addresses, sometimes thousands, making it hard for the computer to pinpoint the source. Used in large and layered networks, using multi-threaded OSI layered attacks and a pre-scanned reconnaissance

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    believing in redemption and hope. But we soon grow up- and that rosy outlook fades as the truths of the society in which we live begin to take hold. Some of my earliest experiences with the cruelty and injustices of the world are derived from the attacks on 9/11. I was little, but I remember seeing the towers falling on TV- my parents staring at the news in horror. I remember the sadness in my heart and my inability to understand how someone could do something that horrible. I still remember the discussions

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    Another misconception is that fanatics create suicide terrorist attacks in isolated events, this is false. The majority of suicide attacks are usually clustered events, which are part of a large campaign to coerce a government. Those who reside in the most upper rankings of the organization, strategically and carefully plan the timing of these campaigns. The timing of the attacks can be used to allow time for negations, to encourage a government to act more swiftly, or to allow time for regrouping

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    After the attacks of September the eleventh on the United States the world has transformed drastically; the events of 9/11 2001 was followed by a string of similar attacks and suicide bombings all around the world that terrorism has become a major threat to our planet. With the help of the media in dramatizing these attacks, fear of terror has become a major concern to people around the world. Terrorism has somehow played a major role in shaping our world in the twenty first century and the past

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    into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks” (“9/11 Attack”), which caused the U.S. horrific sorrow. As I was interviewing Ms. Phyllis Brown, she gave us the rundown about her experience through this tragedy. It was early in the morning when Ms. Brown, a cashier at Sprint Wireless, was opening

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    Denial-of-Service Attacks (Samuel Folledo) How many of us know exactly what Denial-of-Service attacks is? Aside from how powerful and easy it is to perform these attacks, its mysteriousness alone illustrates a huge danger in the computer world. A deep understanding of DoS can save a lot of headaches as these cybercriminals are able to steal from personal informations to bringing down sites and companies. The first wall of prevention against these attacks is always awareness. This is why being knowledgeable

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    In terrorist attacks, individuals or groups use violence to obtain political or social objectives through the intimidation of a large audience beyond that of the immediate victims (Santifort-Jordan & Sandler 2014, 981). If the terrorist attack is particularly shocking, then the terrorist group hopes that their malicious act will cause sufficient social anxiety that society will pressure the government to concede to the group 's demands. Suicide terrorist attacks, the execution of which requires the

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