The stakeholders have influenced cyber terrorism in both a negative and a positive way:- Hackers. As the main stakeholders in cyber terrorism‚ have played an important role whereby in a positive way they help in analyzing and providing consulting services to the experts to identify loopholes in a system by understanding the coding and protocols in cyberspace. Negatively‚ through selfish motives some hackers play the role of attacking the systems and gaining access to authorized information using
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Information Use The design of information flow and security is a major concern in any enterprise. Without consistent and proper flow then statistical or decisional errors may occur. Therefore‚ the design of the information stream is a chief concern of the Information technologist. It is also important to safeguard the data from inappropriate viewing. To that end‚ it is important to map out the pattern. This example uses a doctor-patient visit in a medical clinic of the twenty-first century. The
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Digital Crime Evidence and Procedures Digital TITLE: Compare and contrast the four different categorizations of computer crimes Abstract Computers are used for many different types of personal and work related activities. Getting on the Internet and researching a topic for a college paper‚ researching types of flat screen televisions and their various prices‚ or what about getting on the computer and playing games‚ or using computers to watch movies and chat with friends and family. From
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Eric S. Raymond (author of The New Hacker’s Dictionary) advocates that members of the computer underground should be called crackers. Yet‚ those people see themselves as hackers and even try to include the views of Raymond in what they see as one wider hacker culture‚ a view harshly rejected by Raymond himself. Instead of a hacker/cracker dichotomy‚ they give more emphasis to a spectrum of different categories‚ such as white hat‚ grey hat‚ black hat and script kiddie. World Of Hacking Hacking
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report. This topic of this report first appeared in Flight International‚ and then a few days later it gathered momentum in a critical follow up from Wired Magazine. According to Wired (2008)‚ the FAA states “Boeing’s new 787 may be vulnerable to hacker attack”. All of this has come about due to the new design features of the 787. Whilst designing what they believed to be an aircraft for the future‚ they had pre-empted the future need for in-flight entertainment and access to the Internet. Something
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User Authentication 1.1 What is authentication and what is it used for? Authentication is a process used to establish the identity of a particular user trying to access data or information on a web server. Authenticating users is a common part of most web applications. It is an important security measure used to protect confidential data i.e‚ bank details. Without a means of verifying a potential user‚ data access may be grantedto an unauthorised user which can lead to serious consequences if used
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DOD environments address those security requirements. A desktop computer configuration is an example where STIGs would be beneficial. Most OS (operating systems) are not inherently secure. This leaves them open to criminals (i.e.‚ and computer hackers and personal identity thieves). STIG’s explain how to minimize network-based attacks‚ and preventing system access when the attacker is present at the device. STIGs also describe maintenance processes (for example: vulnerability patching and software
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protect yourself‚ your data‚ or your computer from harm. These are meant to protect data and systems from damage. For example‚ regularly backing up your data is a countermeasure against the treat of data loss. A firewall is a countermeasure against hackers. In the context of computer security the user‚ hardware and data may face threats at any time and we must take proper countermeasures to deal with such threats. Threats to Users Networks and internet have created limitless possibilities for people
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Tuesday‚ April 23‚ a group declaring themselves the “Syrian Electronic Army” hacked into the Twitter account of the Associated Press and released a Tweet declaring an attack on the White House in which President Barack Obama was injured (Fisher; Syrian hackers claim AP hack that tipped stock market by $136 billion. Is it terrorism?). This of course was false and easily taken down‚ but the stock market plummeted and $136 billion in equity market value was lost. This simple case of false information caused
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remember when I was in high school‚ I always had a hard time understanding math. In senior year I almost dropped out of school because of the difficulty of high levels of math classes. I just read an article called‚ “Is Algebra Necessary?” by Andrew Hacker‚ an American political scientist and public intellectual. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College in New York. He argues that algebra is not necessary‚ and it shouldn’t be a requirement for college
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