cyber-attack on their network during its regular monitoring of security check. The hackers made it through breaking in to the network and stole the sensitive and personal data of the customers which includes encrypted credit and debit card information‚ illegal access of customer ID ’s and also source code of other various Adobe products like Adobe Acrobat and ColdFusion‚ ColdFusion Builder. On the companies saying that the hackers got access to the encrypted customers passwords and debit and credit card
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private information without us even knowing about it. Email security threats may be of many different types. Email security can be compromised by spoofing‚ identity theft‚ attacks by modifying existing messages‚ and imposters [Kangas‚ 2004]. Hackers may use any or all of these methods to break into a user’s computer. Email security Email is one of the most potent sources for losing our data because most people are complacent about enforcing email security. Email software is also the most
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characters life would be the story of Etherwest which is about the hackers and Tag‚ the story about the boy who is a photographer. Etherwest not only takes place in New York but also in California. All the hackers involved in the prank phone call to the payphone in New York are from an institute found in California. "-People! he says again. I got this nutjob here.Guy from California. Go figure. Hey. You there?"(Pg 108) The Hackers are not connected to any of the other characters expect the tightrope
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a network or electricity is temporarily out of service‚ the electric devices will not function. In addition to technology not being a fully reliable source‚ there are also threats to computers. Technology has been a privilege and convenience that hackers have abusing by taking advantage of others hard work and privacy. All of these reasons contribute to why technology is a problem in today’s society and should be limited. Technology is designed to be quick and store mass memory‚ but on occasions
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Introduction: Data breach has always been a sensitive topic‚ let alone when the data breach is related to banking. In the mean time‚ there’s a breach was found happened to the online banking system of the competitive bank of First Union Bank‚ and the hacker had stolen quantities of customers’ personal information and data. It has been an alarm for all the banks‚ it reminds the whole society to be alert of the damage caused by the data breach. The Chief Information Officer of the First Union Bank is
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can be accessed easily on the internet. Different kind of hackers can get access to people’s computers easily with the necessary knowledge and devices. People need to be aware of these kinds of threat and help them by preventing their computers or networks of being hacked. Hackers today uses ping sweeps and port scans to gain access to networks. Learning how ping sweep and port scans are utilized can help us protect ourselves from these hackers. Ping sweep is a type of network probe or network attack
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crime has assumed rather sinister implications. Major cyber crimes in the recent past include the Citibank rip off. US $ 10 million were fraudulently transferred out of the bank and into a bank account in Switzerland. A Russian hacker group led by Vladimir Kevin‚ a renowned hacker‚ perpetrated the attack. The group compromised the bank’s security systems. Vladimir was allegedly using his office computer at AO Saturn‚ a computer firm in St. Petersburg‚ Russia‚ to break into Citibank computers. He was finally
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there will be several different types of computer users. The hacker is one type of computer user‚ they spend most of their time electronically breaking into other computer’s. The word hacker is synonymous with internet crimes‚ however hackers are highly intelligent individuals with a vast knowledge of computers. They spend their time trying to break through security systems of various networks connected to the internet. Hackers are infamous for infiltrating CIA databases‚ credit card companies
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protected by the office our information can become breached. Facebook is another way personal information can become breached. This is due to hackers locating Facebook pages then sending emails that are designed to look as if a friend sent it. This email will include a link that tells you to log back into Facebook in order to view the message. By doing this it leads hackers to a file onto the IT administrator’s computer allowing them to download sensitive and personal information. When it comes to breaches
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Security & E‐consumer Awareness When you buy a product from an online store you expect the company to keep your data safe from loss and damage. For the company to do this they need to look in to threats to the data and how to stop this‚ a company needs to know the laws of data protection and different ways to prevent this like firewalls and antivirus software and encrypting the customers data to stop people reading it‚ this report will tell you about the types of threats ways to stop these
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