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    Image Security Case Study

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    Brar and Brar [1] have presented that the image safety on internet transfers is the priority of the hour as the breaching assaults into the photograph databases are growing every year. The hackers take benefit of the stolen non-public and crucial pictures to meet their dangerous and unethical intentions. The photograph statistics theft can be used to defame someone at the internet by means of posting the illegal and unacceptable photographs of that individual (internet user. Majority of the prevailing

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    In the 1995 version of the movie Ghost in the Shell, the story follows Motoko Kusanagi, who is an assault team leader for Section 9. In this futuristic movie, the human bodies can be alternated to be partially or completely replaced by cybernetic parts. For those like Kusanagi, she has a cyber brain that allows her to have access to the internet and many other networks. During the movie, the Puppet Master, who was created by Section 6, ghosts hacks various figures. As a responsibility from Section

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    One of the techniques that a hackers may use to try to access your access is called a brute force method of attack. Brute force methods use computer software to try thousands of combinations of username and passwords. WordFence, a security plugin mentioned earlier, did a study on the websites they protect and in a 16 hour window there were six million brute force password attempts to seventy-two thousand individual websites (“Wordfence Secuirty”, 2017). One way to combat this is to limit the login

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    Security risks and protection Security Risks Hacking: Hacking is where unauthorised user’s try to exploit the weaknesses that your computer may have and in the internet software. A hacker can either alter and then break down the links on the website or add additional files and viruses to the webpages. By altering and breaking down the links on the website, the users won’t be able to access certain parts of the website. Also by adding additional files and viruses, this means that it will take longer

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    The article called, The End of Privacy by Adam L. Penenberg, demonstrates the easy access an intruder can have to someone’s private information in today’s digital world with just a few taps on the keyboard, and a phone. Making your private information unprotected and defenseless. Penenberg also describes transition from mainframe computers to desktop PCs making private information vulnerable. He also reveals that marketers and busybodies have more customer data than ever. He also illustrates the

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    I do not agree with using electronic voting machines in place of traditional paper ballots. My reasons why are as follows, first, using EVMs would be costly. Also, EVMs could be hacked. Another reason is that some people would have a hard time using this equipment. My first reason for not wanting to replace paper ballots with EVMs is that it would be costly. The machine software would need to be updated as well as maintaining the hardware. In 2014 the state of Ohio spent $115 million on EVM upgrades

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    The reading begins with an interview conducted by Henry Masias of the University of Maryland on an individual only known as ‘Jason’. Throughout the interview Masias questions Jason about his crimes and his subsequent justification for them; Jason explains he began his criminal behavior at age 14 by simply pirating software, stealing online accounts and services, he states that these actions weren’t necessarily done for material gain but were more of a adrenaline rush and a way to gain information

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    Explain some cases in which you would perm-ban/temp-ban people: Hacking - Helper - Record the person hacking get enough proof to proof he is hacking post it on the staff forums and a higher staff will ban him. Mod - record the person hacking and temp ban the person hacking for 48 hours this will give you time time upload the hacker and let other staff decide if hes hacking if he is hacking then he will get a perm ban by one of the staff members. Advertising- Helper - mute the person advertising and

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    2. Active Attack: Active attacks are those attacks where the attacker takes malicious action in addition to passively listening to ongoing traffic e.g. attacker might choose to modify packets, inject packets or even disrupt network service. The misbehaving node has to bear some energy costs in order to perform some harmful operation like changing the data. Active attacks cause damage and are malicious which often threaten integrity, availability of the network. These type of attacks can be internal

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    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

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