platform for users to play and buy online games‚ interact with friends and family and surf the net provided by Sony Computer Entertainment‚ Inc. On 19th April 2011‚ PSN was struck by hacker and this resulted in an outage of PSN. It was believed that approximately 77 million users’ personal information was stolen by hacker. This case is highlighted because it vividly depicts the issue of data leakage and its effect to the users. I will firstly discuss how PSN works and how it was hacked under technical
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as "HACKERS‚" but what they don’t know is that there are three different types of computer whizzes. First‚ there are hackers. Hackers simply make viruses and fool around on the internet and try to bug people. They make viruses so simple. The get a program called a virus creation kit. This program simply makes the virus of beholders choice. It can make viruses that simply put a constant beep in you computer speakers or it can be disastrous and ruin your computers hard-drive. Hackers also
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It/205 week five assignments 1. List and describe the security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? The TJX was still using the old wired equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption system‚ which is relatively easy for hackers to crack. An auditor also later found the company had neglected to install firewalls and data encryption‚ on many of the computers using the wireless network‚ And did not properly install another layer of security software it had already purchased .TJX also retained
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environment by an unauthorized individual (Adebayo‚ 2012). The Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has shown that there were 855 incidents of data breach and 174 million compromised records in the world in 2011‚ most of which were attacked by hacker and malware (DBIR‚ 2012). As we can see that the probability of data breach happened in 2011 was relatively high‚ and what Caldwell predicted that the number of data breaches will continue to rise up in the later years (Caldwell‚ 2012). Thus‚ there
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formatting and effective writing. Source: Hacker/Sommers (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2011‚ 2007). This paper has been updated to follow the style guidelines in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers‚ This paper follows the style guidelines in the MLA Handbook for Writers of
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encryption such as WEP‚ WPA‚ or WPA2‚ in order to simplify the connection process and minimize the management workload. –Evil twin hotspots: these are hotspots setup by a hacker and made available to the public. Unknowing users who connect to the intent using these access points are then exposing their sensitive information to the hacker. To avoid being tricked by this set up‚ check to see if the login to a WiFi hotspot is SSl encrypted and look for a valid security certificate. 4. NIC‚ Acces Point‚
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entirely controlled or just monitored by a computer system‚ but it relies on a computer to correctly function. This now causes an issue with the security of today’s vehicles. With each device in a vehicle using a computer there are many ways for a hacker to gain access to the vital components of the vehicle. It is estimated that a modern luxury car comprises of more than seventy Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in each vehicle today. Of these seventy different ECUs they are all connected via a network
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survey of how the information was affecting larger companies (Institute‚ 2014). Unfortunately the hackers are using the information to ruin their credit. Russian hackers obtained 1.2 billion usernames and passwords (Institute‚ 2014). Well the best remedy would be to use cash for everything and keep off of databases. It is easier said than done. As long as there is information available‚ for hackers to steal‚ then they will attempt to obtain it.
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Ping sweeps and ports scans are a common ways for hackers to attempt to break a network. As a system administrator this is a concern and for the boss this should not be a worry for him. The system administrator has a lot of steps to stop attempts from hackers to get any information by using the ping sweeps and ports scans. Once‚ the hackers are discourage they should move on to another site. A ping sweep is a basic networking scanning technique used to determine which range of IP addresses
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consider hiring “black hat” hackers as security consultants. Research the elements that comprise “ethical” hacking. In what ways does ethical hacking differ from “black hat” hacking? Put yourself into the position of a system administrator considering hiring a hacker. How would you ensure that this individual was actually strengthening your company’s network security rather than hacking into your company’s sensitive data? Would you even consider hiring a hacker in the first place? Why or why
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