Internet Security. How safe is your computer?Robert WilliamsSAINT LEO UNIVERSITYCOM201Professor Gary RogersNovember 22‚ 2013Internet Security. How safe is your computer?The Internet is a very powerful tool that we use to navigate and communicate with the rest of the world. Internet users often rely on interacting with other computers and programs to accommodate their different needs. Anytime you place your technology device on the Internet‚ there will always be a possibility of attracting a virus
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Different Types of Computer Viruses Computer virus is a software program written with malicious intentions. There are number of computer viruses that can impede the functioning of your computer system. Let us find out the different types of computer viruses. Did You Know? In 2010‚ Stuxnet virus targeted Siemens Industrial Software and Equipment. There are allegations that this virus is a part of a U.S. and Israeli intelligence operation named "Operation Olympic Games" and it hit Iran’s nuclear
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Progress Check #1 ACTIVE READING STRATEGIES (50 Points) PART A: List the five active reading strategies. Explain each strategy in one or two sentences. (5 pts. each for a total of 25 pts). 1. Predicting – Predicting is making an educated guess on the essay‚ text‚ chapter‚ or article that you are about to read by reading the title and the first or second sentence of a paragraph to predict what that passage is going to be about. 2. Visualizing – Visualizing is making what you
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Categories of Computer Crime Smith Strayer University CIS170 Wk2 Professor Masudur Chowdhury July 4‚ 2013 Explain in detail the four common categories of computer crimes and provide at least one example for each. There are many different types of computer crime and multiple ways to categorize them. I will discuss four categories in detail to shine light on how vulnerable people are‚ when we choose to use a personal or publicly used computer to transmit confidential information
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* Boot sector * The first sector in a hard drive is called the boot sector and contains the Master Boot Record (MBR). The MBR contains the information concerning the location of partitions on the drive and reading of the bootable operating system partition. * A boot sector virus will corrupt the boot sector to make the computer inoperable‚ or it can do as little as change the name of your hard drive. * File * A resource for storing information‚ which is available to a computer
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In the starting pages of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow‚ Marcus Yallow a.k.a “wln5st0n” is caught during the aftermath‚ of a devastating terrorist attack that hits San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. Marcus is only 17 years old but he figures he knows the ways of the networking world. He’s smart‚ fast‚ wise and has no trouble outsmarting his school’s security system. Marcus and his friends are kidnapped by the Department Of Homeland Security and are brutally interrogated for days. When they are released
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Name : Date: February 2‚ 2013 Chapter 8 Reading Organizer After completion of this chapter‚ you should be able to: • Identify and describe the various networking threats. • Identify different methods of attack. • Describe security procedures and applications. • Describe the features of a firewall and how it can be used to protect against an attack. 8.1 1. Once the hacker gains access to the network‚ four types of threat may arise. List and explain each of these
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Have you ever wonder how the cases are solved? What do they do at the crime seen and how do can it prevent from the same crime from happening. In order to solve those cases people needed to use tools to find the clues‚ those tools could have been finger print brush‚ magnifying glasses‚ and even animals. Tools are an absolute necessary in order to solve and to bring peace and order with in our society. But as the criminals evolve with the society and technology the people that are defending the peace
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Latterly‚ while scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed‚ I stumbled across a very interesting photo – shared by one of my friends. It claimed that Hamza Bendelladj‚ a 27-year-old‚ Algerian hacker had been sentenced to death by a US judge after allegedly co-creating a banking Trojan horse known as “SpyEye”. The Trojan has reportedly infected more than 1.4 million computers across the globe. It was used to steal millions of dollars from more than 200 American banks and financial institutions after obtaining
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Explain some cases in which you would perm-ban/temp-ban people? Hacking: What is hacking well Hacking is someone that uses any kind of client and gets an unfair advantage on a player. First off I would record the Hacker and once I get a lot of proof I would permanently ban the Hacker for 48Hours and upload it and then share it with the staff team.If I was a Helper I would record the hacker then once I get a lot of proof I would upload it and share it with a Moderator+. Advertising Other Servers
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