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    Since the beginning of mankind the need to communicate with one another has served as an essential part of existing. From the hieroglyphics painted in pyramids in Egypt, sending smoke signals by Indians, communicating over radio, writing a letter and sending it via mail service to present day communication via cellular phone and internet. According to the International Telecommunication Union, by the end of 2015 nearly half of the 7.2 billion people on the planet will have access to the internet

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    all businesses, due to the crippling effects an attack can have on an enterprise. There are several common types of cyber-attacks. Malware, for example, is a code with malicious intent that includes cyber threats such as Trojan Horses, viruses, spyware, worms, and other malicious programs; it’s commonly used to damage computer systems or data theft. Users can get malware by installing

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    hoax until a project by Michael Goetz and Michael Hanspach entitled “On Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks in Air” was published in 2013 proving that it was indeed possible for air-gapped computers to communicate using acoustical signals generated by malware. — AirHopper: AirHopper was an early study published by Mordechai Guri in 2014 that utilized FM radio frequencies to bridge air-gaps. Guri was able to successfully transmit FM signals from the video display monitor of a targeted computer. While

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    How to Decrypt Teslacrypt Encrypted Files One of the most insidious and annoying things in the digital world, ransomware still plagues users due to a number of factors. Although Teslacrypt is a currently defunct example of ransomware, it is still a trojan that was used to encrypt access to key files such as saved games in a number of video games that included popular titles such as the Call of Duty series, Minecraft, World of Tanks and World of Warcraft among at least 40 other known titles. At its

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    Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Here (Right click and choose open in new tab then choose download free versions – big orange rectangle.) 2. Once downloaded, close all browsers and programs then double-click on the icon in your download folder or on your desktop named “mbam-setup” to start your installation of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. --If prompted to click Yes or No on a pop-up screen asking for permission to run, choose “Yes”

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    Malicious code is any software that obstructs the normal process of a computer or network device. (Erbschloe 2005). When malware code starts to infect a large number of devices on a network, it is classified as it being the zoo virus. There are thousands of known malware such as worms, viruses, and Trojans, but many of them render little to no harm to an actual device. Malware is broken down into different threat levels which fall into four different classification levels such as no threat, low

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    6th Question: IETF is to make internet work better. Mission of IETF is to produce high quality, relevant technical documents which influence people to use, design and manage internet. IETF working groups are referred as WG’s. Working groups are created to address a specific problem or to produce one or more than one specific deliveries. WG’s are generally intended to be standard and short lived in nature. Some of the WG’s are as follows: Area Active work Group Name Description Email Address Applications

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    Justification The term cross pollination may be used to best describe the sharing of theories, mathematical computations, algorithms, languages, hardware architecture, system software, applications software and tools between computer science and software engineering. Computer scientists utilize mathematics and theory to analyze if something works. Software engineers apply known rules in order to build and design things. Calude et al. (2008) quoted Vladimir Arnold in their research regarding proofs

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    to maintain a strong cyber security posture. For current technology vulnerability the outdated antivirus was used an example that pertains to all corporations to include Yahoo!, where malware can be introduced into the companies system. The attack vector for this vulnerability occurs through an injection of malware that occurs through email attachments, chat rooms, Trojan programs that lead to the loss or corruption of existing data, or system impacts such as

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    The worse attack on the United States computer network took place in 2008. The Deputy of Secretary of Defense, William J. Lynn III, described the event as a “network administrator’s worst fear: a rouge program operating silently, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary” (Lynn, 2010). The common thought that comes to mind when we think of an attack on a network infrastructure is that the attack is a complex attack coordinated by some “black hat ” hacker/cracker that

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