1. Why is it critical to perform a penetration test on a web application prior to production Implementation? To make sure no one can penetrate your web application before you put it in a live situation. 2. What is a cross-site scripting attack? Explain in your own words. Cross-site scripting is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications that enables attacks to inject client side script into web pages viewed by others 3. What is a reflective cross-site scripting
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Unit2 Assignment2 Vulnerability of a Cryptosystem The vulnerability that has been discovered has a primary affect to a cryptosystem and a secondary affect to a cryptosystem. The vulnerability in question is a weakness in the MD5 algorithm that would allow for collisions in output. As a result‚ attackers can generate cryptographic tokens or other data that illegitimately appear to be authentic. Now the secondary affect is that the MD5 hashes may allow for certificate spoofing on a Cisco ASA system
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STUDENT COPY Graded Assignments The following sections contain student copies of the assignments. These must be distributed to students prior to the due dates for the assignments. Online students will have access to these documents in PDF format‚ which will be available for downloading at any time during the course. Graded Assignment Requirements The Assignment Requirements documents provided below must be printed and distributed to students for guidance on completing the assignments
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IS4560: hacking and countermeasure Project part 6: defense Plan to prevent attack My defense plan at AHC will include a counter attack from external and internal threats; the vulnerability and security threats that exist inside AHC IT infrastructure. In order the deal with these kinds of threats‚ we will need to train and create and incident report and handling plan with our IT management. I will also help them to create and implement a more secure and dependable Disaster recovery plan that will
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Lab 1 Week 1 IS4560: Hacking and Countermeasures Week 1 Lab: Implement Hashing & Encryption for Secure Communications Learning Objectives and Outcomes Upon the completion of this lab‚ students will be able to perform the following tasks: Apply common cryptographic and hashing techniques on a message to ensure message confidentiality and integrity Verify the integrity of the output of common cryptographic and hashing tools to determine whether an
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The University’s systems and security infrastructure has given the IT analysis team a good start in building a security plan by gathering information about the University’s systems from the network diagram. A security control is any mechanism that you put in place to reduce the risk of compromise of any of the three CIA objectives: confidentiality‚ integrity‚ and availability. When you plan your network addressing scheme‚ consider the following factors: The type of IP address that you want
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IS4560 Unit 3 Assignment 1 Information Gathering Plan The explosive growth and popularity of the Internet have resulted in thousands of structured query able information sources. Most organizations are familiar with Penetration Testing and other ethical hacking techniques as a means to understanding the current security status of their information system assets. Consequently‚ much of the focus of research‚ discussion‚ and practice‚ has traditionally been placed upon active probing and exploitation
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09/19/13 IS4560 Lab 1 Task 1 1. Introduction 2. Will the testing be done after business hours? 3. The scope covers the type of testing one need to do like load testing. The scope defines what will be done in the testing process. 4. Define what will be tested and when. 5. Define what we test first. 6. Define what passed and what failed. 7. Define what day and time testing will begin and end. Task 2 1. Foot printing‚ Scanning and Enumeration‚ System Hacking‚ Deploy Payload and
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Unit 1 Assignment 1: Developments in Hacking‚ Cybercrime‚ and Malware IS4560 March 24‚ 2014 Unit 1 Assignment 1: Developments in Hacking‚ Cybercrime‚ and Malware Web-based attacks – the increasing pervasiveness of Web browser applications along with increasingly common‚ easily exploited Web browser application security vulnerabilities has resulted in the widespread growth of Web-based threats. Attackers wanting to take advantage of client-side vulnerabilities no longer need to actively compromise
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IS4560 Unit 1 Assignment 1 Developments in Hacking‚ Cybercrime‚ and Malware Web-based attacks are on the front lines of Internet security. The trending threats are as followed in rank: 1. PDF Suspicious File Download 2. Microsoft Internet Explorer ADODB.Stream Object File Installation Weakness 3. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Uninitialized Memory Code Execution 4. Microsoft Internet Explorer MS Snapshot ActiveX File Download 5. Adobe SWF Remote Code Executable 6. Microsoft Internet
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