encryption today‚ and hackers could access the credit card data easily. If TJX had taken the time to implement a stronger encryption method‚ thousands of dollars would have been saved by the company. Proper site surveying could also have prevented the attackers from making a breach. TJX Companies had other weaknesses. They allowed certain people to use USB devices in their computers. Someone could easily steal data on a USB device and use it. Also they didn’t have a firewall preventing data from intrusion
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As the internet continues to grow‚ we may never be able to completely protect our privacy especially when it comes to shopping online and social networking sites. Abstract I chose this topic because it seems to always be in the news and there is also an interesting section about this topic in chapter three in the text. Whether it has to do with online shopping or social networking sites‚ it seems like once we make it on the internet‚ anyone can be located and can be at risk. Just Google anyone’s
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Utah Department of Health Data Security Breach Introduction On March 10‚ 2012‚ thousands of people fell victim to having their social security numbers‚ birthdays‚ names‚ addresses‚ and even their medical diagnosis stolen by computer hackers. On April 2‚ 2012‚ the breach was realized and 780‚000 people learned that their identities were stolen and would now need to monitor their credit. Computer and internet fraud is defined by the federal law as “the use of a computer to create a dishonest
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TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME Cybercrime‚ hacking‚ blackmailing‚ fraud‚ theft and extortion; these are the first few types of crimes come into my mind when we are presented with the words “technology” and “crime”. One of the reasons might be that we all have been prone to the nuisance caused by any of these crimes at least once‚ as almost everyone these days has access to the computer and the internet. Lets us start by considering the fact that Crime has existed as long as humans and will only become extinct
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controls that could be exploited and result in a security breach‚ violation of the systems security policy or other impact. • Software bugs and design flaws‚ particularly those in mass-market software such as Windows and TCP/IP [usually exploited by hackers and other criminals] •
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a computer or computer system (as on the Internet) against unauthorized access or attack Most people think that hackers are just people that want to mess up your computer‚ but real hackers break into systems because they want to see what they can do‚ then they might leave a message on the victims computer‚ but that’s it. So‚ the computer security people protect from those other hackers that want to mess up peoples computers. The means we take can as individual to protect ourselves in the cyber world
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P3 explain the security risks and protection mechanisms involved in website performance Security Risks Hackers: A hacker is someone who finds weaknesses in a computer or computer network‚ enters‚ and modifies or/and steals data this could slow down performance very much or even completely halt it. Viruses: A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another. The term "virus" is also commonly‚ but erroneously‚ used to refer to other types
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past years with a series of large retailer breaches to fraud of credit cards being used by black hat hackers to transact online. Criminal organizations target not only big co-operations but also smaller business and this month it has been reported that there is underground purchase of point of sale malware at two thousand dollars. As the profitability of cyber criminals has become apparent‚ hackers have increasingly engineered and executed many devastating data breaches in the global net. Many of
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are prone to hackers‚ and almost all of them have had instances of major data breaches. For instance‚ last year‚ Uber disclosed that hackers had accessed personal information of 57 million riders and drives from its platform in 2016 prompting the company to pay them $100‚000 as ransom money. Airbnb‚ on the other hand‚ has also been faced with multiple instances of data breaches with the biggest attack making the platform disappear momentarily back in 2016. In a recent incident‚ hackers hijacked accounts
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the identified threats & vulnerabilities from Lab #1 – (List At Least 3 and No More than 5‚ High/Medium/Low Nessus Risk Factor Definitions for Vulnerabilities) a. Fire destroys primary data center b. User downloads an unknown e-mail attachment c. Hacker penetrates your IT infrastructure and gains access to your internal network d. Workstation OS has known software vulnerability 2.) For the above identified threats and vulnerabilities‚ which of the following COBIT P09 Risk Management control objectives
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