Unit 2 Assignment 2: Microsoft Environment Analysis 1/5/2014 5 vulnerabilities for this workgroup LAN based on the Microsoft Security Advisories numbers. 2755801‚ 2719662‚ 2854544‚ 2846338‚ 2847140. 2846338 involve privilege elevation‚ Vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution‚ and is a high priority. Three vulnerabilities and Solutions related to client configurations. Advisory Number: 2719662 Microsoft is announcing the availability
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Unit 2 Assignment 2: Microsoft Envirnment Analysis Microsoft Environment Analysis Abstract Windows of Vulnerability is defined as the ability to attack something that is at risk. Hackers search and pride themselves on finding vulnerabilities or creating their own within a system. A few examples of vulnerabilities that will be covered in this paper are CodeRed‚ Spida‚ Slammer‚ Lovesan‚ and Sasser. The worm named Code Red was observed on the internet on July 13‚ 2001. Computers running Microsoft
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Eric Worth 12/18/14 Intro to Information Security NT2580 Unit 2 – Assignment 2 – Microsoft Environment Analysis Go through the archive of Microsoft Security Advisories on the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/archive.mspx Answer the following questions based on the advisories for the past 12 months: Questions: 1. What vulnerabilities exist for this workgroup LAN based on the advisories? List five of them. 2. Do any vulnerabilities involve privilege elevation? Is this
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Unit 2 Assignment 2: Microsoft Environment Analysis 1. The five vulnerabilities that exist for this LAN based workgroup are 2755801‚ 2501696‚ 2588513 2639658‚ 2659883. 2. Yes‚ the vulnerability that involves privilege elevation is 2639658 (Vulnerability in TrueType Font Parsing)‚ but it is not a high priority. 3. 2719662 Solution: Workarounds refer to a setting or configuration change that does not correct the underlying issue but would help block known attack vectors before a security
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Unit 2 Assignment 2: Vulnerability of a Cryptosystem 1. Microsoft is aware that research was published at a security conference proving a successful attack against X.509 digital certificates signed using the MD5 hashing algorithm. This attack method could allow an attacker to generate additional digital certificates with different content that have the same digital signature as an original certificate. The MD5 algorithm had previously shown a vulnerability‚ but a practical attack had not yet been
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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION LEVEL 2 - TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE Unit 2 – assignment 2 1. Understand how to make and receive calls 2.1 Describe the different features of telephone systems and how to use them.• Call holding- places a caller on hold so you can undergo another duty. This could be to find paperwork‚ find client/customer details‚ retrieve information from another member of staff or contact another colleague to divert the call along to. • Call waiting- lets you know when
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outlook Web access could allow elevation of privilege. Microsoft Server Exchange 2003 and 2007 2264072 CVE-2010-1886: Elevation of privilege using Windows service Isolation Bypass. Windows Server 2003 and 2008 980088 CVE-2010-0255: Vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow Information Disclosure. Windows XP 975497 CVE-2009-3103: Vulnerabilities in SMB could allow remote code execution. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and 2 98343 CVE-2010-0817: Vulnerability in SharePoint
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Unit 2 Assignment 2 Global Limited has the reputation as one of the world’s leading providers of infrastructure information systems‚ software‚ and services around the world. Global’s clients range from world-wide enterprises to startup companies across all industry sectors‚ including financial services‚ manufacturing‚ transportation‚ and public services. Information is an organization’s most valuable asset‚ yet traditional security practices have either not provided adequate protection of information
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Unit 2 Assignment 2: Computer Basics Review 1. Which of the following terms is the closest synonym to the term computer networking? a. Telecom 2. Ann uses her email address‚ me@here.com‚ to send an email to Bob‚ whose email address is you@there.com. The message contains a few paragraphs of text. Which of the following will be important to the process of making sure that Bob receives this email? b. Bob’s incoming email server 3. According to the chapter‚ which of the following concepts happens
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Unit 2 Assignment 2 1.1 Analyse the role and use of initial and diagnostic assessment in agreeing individual learner goals During my role as a trainer it is important that each new learner has a starting point from where to commence the training. This can be found by the use of initial assessment procedure. Initial assessment is a vital link to the learning process‚ it is a formal and informal process that identifies each learners starting point. It helps to identify learner’s current levels of
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