...Credit Union, a financial institution in the Southern part of the United States. First Choice Credit Union (FFCU has seven branches located throughout the metropolitan area. One branch is located at the FFFCU headquarters. Most employees at the FFCU has at least 5 years of service. The credit card information of 200,000 members has been stolen. This is highly sensitive information and it puts the members at critical risk. The security breach might cause loss of finances and other disturbances. Frank Sanders, the CEO of FFCU called a conference with all the executives of the FFCU. The nature of the conference was to discuss a security breach. A security breach that affected card member credit card numbers and personal information. Frank was uncertain if the breach had affected all members’ information or a portion. However, Frank was aware that fraudulent activity had already taken place on some accounts. Due to the fraudulent activity that had transpired Frank had canceled all current credit cards and was sending out replacement cards. Jaime O’ Dell, the chief information officer (CIO) was appalled because nothing had ever happened like this since his tenure with the company. Jaime felt the firewall being used was the top of the line, virus protested was updated daily and an intrusion detection system that would alert him on his smartphone was enough security for the FFCU. Jaime and Frank met and agreed that an immediate investigation needed to take place. The questions...
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...* Stolen generation –with kay getting taken away by the government. * 1967 referendum- counted in the census so there should be equality but theres not still as seen in the bar at the talent show. Them not winning, people leaving when there singing. Taxi. Maybe the tappware party * Vietnam- the aboriginals and the black solider in the helicoopperter. Sapphires essay Rights were a massive issue in the 1968. There were major event all around the world to do with rights but many people over look Australia. In Australia people were still furious over the stolen generation and the effects, and even though the 1967 referendum allowed aboriginals to be counted in the national census, there was still great disprove of aboriginals. The sapphires does accurately reflect the social and political issues of the time. Through the stolen generation, 1967 referendum and the war in Vietnam you see that laws are one thing but acceptance is another. The sapphires shows that there was many social and political issues at that time. One major political and social issue is the treatment of the aboriginals by the white people. Even with the 1967 referendum which allowed aboriginals be counted in the national census, you would think that aboriginals would be treated better. But they didn’t and you see this when the three girls go to the talent show. When they first enter everyone stares at them, looking at them like there from another planet. Then again when they start singing and...
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...expiring the spending power, Financial Institutions –re-issue the cards for those customers whose information was compromised, Store Associates –change their credentials for system access, Vendors, Merchandisers - Modify the information shared due to mutual network and Richel Owen, CSO- design long and short term strategy to address the security breach issue. Intruders utilized the data stolen to produce bogus credit/debit cards that can be used at self-checkouts without any risks, and had also employed gift card float technique. Case Analysis: TJX learnt about the hacking on December, 2006 through the presence of suspicious software and immediately called in Security consultants for assistance. TJX had been intruded at multiple vulnerable points – Encryption, Wireless attack, USB drives, Processing logs, Compliance and Auditing practice. Encryption - Intruder had accessed the card information during the approval process and had the decryption key for the encryption software used in TJX. This can be addressed by purchasing or designing an encryption algorithm that uses advanced encryption standards like asymmetric encryption algorithm, which employs a pair of keys (public and private) and uses a different component of the pair for different steps of the algorithm that complicates decrypting of the data packets. Wireless Attack – Data streaming between IP enabled devices had been hacked using an antenna and...
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...might be shared on the internet. * * * * (Image Source: HDW) In the current world, where there are difficult to trace anonymous hackers, the need of protecting one’s own data becomes all the more important. The following tips would help in preventing hacking of smartphones. 1. Using of screen locks and encryption Usage of screen locks and encryption enable the enhancement of security of the Android systems. Pattern, pin and face lock being different types of screen locks which make it difficult in guessing the passwords. * * * * 2. Avoiding saving of passwords Saving of passwords to websites and onine services on someone’s devices provides a chance for accessing vital information when stolen. As a result of which, one should avoid saving all the passwords in one’s phone, specifically in respect to the mobile applications related to payment and banking. 3. Applications being required to be locked Applications containing private information need to be locked, providing additional security and preventing a person from using a lost device in case of the various locks of the Android system being bypassed. File managers and email applications which contain private information are the ones which need to be locked. 4. Checking permissions required for installing an app Due to the existence of various unsafe apps in Play Store, the list of permissions which pop-up when installing an app needs to be checked thoroughly. There are...
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...network to maintain daily operations and privacy of data; therefore it is of a huge significance to maintain this kind of data safely. In addition, the data must be easily recoverable in the event of a disaster When creating a disaster plan for an organization, many considerations must be made. As we review 123 Textiles Corporation, one significant factor is that the organization operates in a high-crime area. In addition, the server for the organization is adjacent to a window; which presents a security risk as the server is visible from the outside. The organization had a recent burglary, and the server was stolen. A good solution to this eliminate this particular challenge would be to have a security system, including video cameras around the exterior of the building. While this may not specifically prevent the server from becoming a security concern or stolen, it would provide video of the thieves themselves, and lead to a faster recovery of the server. Another challenge is that the organization backs up company data...
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...Identity Theft I know three people who have been affected by identity theft in the past. They were forced to deal with the hassle of clearing and repairing their good names and financial reputations. According to my research, there was a new victim of identity theft in the U.S. every two seconds within the last year and over 9 million Americans reported that their identity had been stolen (Rogers, 2014). The primary complaint on the Federal Trade Commission’s list of top consumer complaints is identity theft (Trowbridge, 2014). This crime has gone from actions like rooting through a person’s trash and stealing their mail to confidence scams to gain access to personal information. With the possibilities that are provided by the internet criminals are capable of gaining access to and stealing personal information from a larger pool of prospective victims from all across the world. What is Identity Theft? According to Merriam-Webster, identity theft is “the illegal use of someone else's personal information (as a Social Security number) especially in order to obtain money or credit” (Merriam-Webster, 2014). Some of the items that a person would utilize to steal another person’s identity are Social Security Numbers, driver's license numbers or their date of birth just to name a few of the pieces of information. The thief can take this information and use it to obtain things such as credit cards, bank accounts, auto loans, and home mortgages in the victim’s name. Some...
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...Unit 8 Lab 8: Auditing the Remote Access Domain for Compliance Larry Sanchez IS4680 5/12/2014 Remote Access Domain, when using this you are access resources that our outside you organizational resources to access your organizations network. A lot of this accessing of resources compromises of sensitive data. This makes it a lot more accessible to attackers or hackers due to the perimeter of the network being so far extended and the attackers or hackers could be able to find a breach in the network perimeter. Having a weak VPN that has no layers of security can and will give hackers or attackers the window of opportunity that they need to get to our network. We need to watch what kind of software that our user's are using. If our remote users are using different software than what we have at our company headquarters than there could be a possible risk. The software can be suspicious, especially if the user downloaded it from the Internet. the software in question could lead to incoming viruses and worms that can affect our network. This can create holes in the security that has been set up. Configuration settings can lead a user to let in viruses and worms also. If the remote user does know how to set up their configuration settings on their machines than anything that they send or receive can be a potential risk, threat, and vulnerability to our network. Once an employee takes their laptop home they are no longer protected by the organizations firewalls. This can...
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...March 6, 2015 March 6, 2015 Final Project Cybercrime Forensics Final Project Cybercrime Forensics Part 1: Review Packet Capture For this investigation, we have decided to use NetWitness Investigator to examine the packets captured from the computers in question. NetWitness Investigator is a software used to examine packets and list login information, transferred data, and IP addresses used, among others. For the purpose of this investigation, we are primarily concerned with the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sessions and the file names they contained. We can use this information to identify the persons responsible for the data leak at Corporation Tech’s network. First, we created a new collection in NetWitness. We titled the collection Final Project for the purposes of this investigation. We then imported packets from the captured packets file titled ftpcapture.pcap. Once NetWitness imported the files, we were able to view information such as the login information and files transferred. Below is the information we collected. Source IP | Destination IP | Protocol | Username | Password | Files | 172.16.177.132 | 172.16.177.157 | FTP (21) | badguy | you will never guess this !! | badnotes1.txt | 172.16.177.132 | 172.16.177.157 | FTP (21) | badguy | you will never guess this !! | badnotes2.txt | These files were transmitted on July 31, 2010 at 1:08:58 AM and totaled to 5.71KB, which is shown below in the following screen captures. After...
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...The sexual assault occurred in Thunderbolt, a suburb of Savannah, two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In halting testimony, the school teacher said her attacker told her he had broken into her apartment on orders from al-Qaeda. The terrorist group, he said, wanted him to take her computer because of some information that had been downloaded onto it. The Auburn, Ala., native testified she had just moved to the Savannah area for her first job at a local middle school. On Nov. 18, 2001, she returned from church and found things amiss, with her computer piled on a chair. Then a man stepped out from behind a door. “He looked like he wasn’t expecting me,” she testified during the June 2003 trial. He put his hand over her mouth and told her not to scream. He pushed her into her bedroom closet and told her to take off her clothes. He covered her head to shield her view. He put a knife to her throat and said: If you do anything stupid, I’ll kill you, she testified. Speaking with a thick Middle Eastern accent, he said he knew everything about her parents. He recited their Alabama address and her father’s name and said he could hurt them too. All the while, she noted, he wore a pair of distinctive blue-and-white gloves. He later moved her onto her bed, where he blindfolded and bound her. He then committed aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery, prosecutors said. The woman testified that there were times when she could see her attacker...
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...of the story, he doesn't want to do it. When he starts cleaning up the attic, he finds an old dinky truck and when he saw it and touched it, he was transferred back to his sixth birthday. It had been his favorite gift, he played a lot with the truck back then and one day he lost it. He thought that his brothers had stolen the truck, because they used to tease him. But one day he found it, and it was himself who had lost it playing in a cornfield. He didn't told anyone that he found it back then. When he leaves the attic now, he goes to his mother to show her what he found in his brothers box's. 2. When he was young, he was the youngest brother, he had 2 older brothers Peter and Shane. He was daily bullied by his older brothers. His father is the house's leader, and Fintan respects him a lot, even though the father doesn't attend to his birthday party. Fintan finds a way of escaping the bullying he experiences every day in the truck he got in a gift “the truck seemed to hint at the possibility of manliness and eventual escape from the humiliations heaped on him by Shane and Peter.” When the truck then disappears he starts claiming his brothers, they have stolen his only joy away from him. When he found it again he became dishonest, and revengeful as he discover his own mistake, so he lies and hides the truck in a false bottom of the his wardrobe, where he also kept other secret things. Fintan is now almost fifty years old. He always falls in love with pretty young women...
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...Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Stacy Lawton Guin, Plaintiff, v. Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation, Inc., Defendant. Civ. No. 05-668 (RHK/JSM) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER John H. Goolsby and Thomas J. Lyons Jr., Consumer Justice Center, Little Canada, Minnesota; Thomas J. Lyons, Lyons Law Firm, P.A., Little Canada, Minnesota, for Plaintiff. Courtney M. Rogers Reid and Matthew E. Johnson, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Defendant. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Stacy Guin alleges that Defendant Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation, Inc. (“Brazos”) negligently allowed an employee to keep unencrypted nonpublic customer data on a laptop computer that was stolen from the employee’s home during a burglary on September 24, 2004. This matter comes before the Court on Brazos’s Motion for Summary Judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56. For the reasons set forth below, the Court will grant the Motion. BACKGROUND Case 0:05-cv-00668-RHK-JSM Document 61 Filed 02/07/2006 Page 2 of 14 Brazos, a non-profit corporation with headquarters located in Waco, Texas, originates and services student loans. (Villarrial Aff. ¶ 2.) Brazos has approximately 365 employees, including John Wright, who has worked as a financial analyst for the company since November 2003. (Villarrial Aff. ¶ 2; Wright Aff. ¶ 1.) Wright works from an office in his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Wright Aff...
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...For many young Australians, little knowledge is known about Aboriginal issues. The Stolen Generations is a historical series of events well known to many young Australians. It was important as many Australian Government bodies, alongside with other establishments, were removing children from Aboriginal families and putting them into foster homes. It was expected to cause a disconnection of the culture and structure of Aboriginal clans. From tutorials and lectures, I think that Indigenous issues are often misunderstood. I understood lecture material as providing insight into surviving problems due to the Stolen Generations. This was seen with a disconnection from land and country, and a loss of identity for Indigenous Australian. This had led...
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...With the increasing technology of railroads, it has provided people with better and faster transportation, especially to and from far away places. My family is poor and the only way for me to earn money was to herd cattle from Texas to the north. It was one of the ways to earn big money. I had to herd these cattles on a route known as the long drive. Railroad and train transportation would’ve helped faster transport these, but unfortunately no direct railroad tracks were built for this route. Typically we drove roughly 2,500 cattles with seven or eight other cattle drivers along the long drive. Though this might seem very simple of a job, it has its disadvantageous sides. The cattle industry has been declining leaving many people unemployed....
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...In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, one can see that Arnold Friend is Satan, because he deceivingly lures and steals just like Satan does. The first way Arnold is Satan is portrayed through his deceivingly luring character. In the short story, Arnold drives up to a fifteen year old girl’s home in a gold painted car. He then honks four times in order to deceive the girl, Connie, into believing she actually knows him. Friend hopes the familiar sound of the honk will convince her that he is a friend. In addition, he seems to have the perfect attractive face in Connie’s eyes. But she also feels as if something were wrong for she thinks, “His whole face was a mask, she thought wildly, tanned...
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...Lab #1 Assessment Worksheet Crafting an Organization-Wide Security Management Policy for Acceptable Use Student Name: Jonathan Duarte Student Banner ID: 900421269 Date: 2/4/2016 Overview In this lab, you defined an AUP as it relates to the User Domain, you identified the key elements of sample AUPs, and you learned how to mitigate threats and risks with an AUP. Lab Assessment Questions & Answers 1. What are three risks and threats of the User Domain? Threats: * Lack of user awareness * User inserts CDs and UBS drives and personal photos, music, and videos. * Lack of knowledge Risks: * User destruction of systems, application, or data * Stolen Data * Stolen Software/Application 2. Why do organizations have acceptable use policies (AUPs)? * It is because so they can protect the security of a network/organization * Prevent users from getting viruses * Prevent user and organizations to open their systems and network to attacks * Consequences an organization or employee may face * Informing users of acceptable behavior and the use of computers/networks. 3. Can Internet use and e-mail use policies be covered in an acceptable use policy? * Yes they can! Because it’s for the safety of employees and the organization itself. * It’s so the organization is protected at all times. 4. Why is an acceptable use policy not a fail-safe means of mitigating risks and threats within the User Domain? * Because you...
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