...121-126). Ports and maritime access are essential for piracy and al-Shabaab can use this as leverage for further collaboration (Akhgar, 2013 p.42). The failed US attack on an al-Shabaab Barawe stronghold and al-Shabaab’s subsequent deployment of beach defences are demonstrative of the advantages of operating out of al-Shabaab controlled ports and evidence of al-Shabaab’s ability to withstand attacks by foreign forces (Ahmed et al., 2013). When meeting with the pirates, al-Shabaab could ask for control of the AusAID/WFP food shipment and future pirate food hauls. Over 3 million people are reliant on aid in Somalia (Atwan, p.118) and the food could be used to restore Somali faith in al-Shabaab, lost after recent al-Shabaab attacks. Food supplies could provide incentive for recruitment to the al-Shabaab cause if distributed in Somalia, or in the Somali populated areas of Kenya and Ethiopia. Al-Shabaab would not meet with aid agencies such as the WFP. The WFP was ‘banned’ in 2009 as a result of negligent practices, where the flooding of food aid negated the Somali farmers’ opportunities to sell their harvest and ability to independently feed and establish themselves economically. Furthermore, al-Shabaab’s position towards aid agencies has been hostile since 2011 when it established the Office for Supervising the Affairs of Foreign Agencies and ‘banned’...
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...Attack On Government Computers Computer Security Attack on Government Computers The emergence of computers has augmented information storage in various sectors. Information System (IS) refers to an assembly of computers that aids to collate, stockpile, process, and commune information. The government is one of the principal entities that utilize IS to ensure safety of the country’s information. However, the storage systems normally face attacks by some outer entities. The aim of such hackings ranges from access to confidential information to attacks. Some of the remarkable attackers encompass rival states, revolutionaries, criminals, as well as illegal insiders (Rainer Jr & Cegielski, 2009)The software and information engineers have the required expertise to safeguard the systems thus evading and countering the attacks. The US government has faced myriads of attacks, especially the security information. It is imperative to assert that the notable attacks arise from the terrorists who target the government and other critical points within US. Records show that cyber attacks on federal computer networks increased 40 percent last year, and that figure is likely low as it reflects only the reported attacks. Based on data provided to USA Today by US-CERT, unauthorized access to government computers and installations of hostile programs rose from a combined 3,928 incidents in 2007 to 5,488 in 2008. (Government, 2008) According to Brad Curran, Frost & Sullivan...
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...2013 Case Study 1 Cyber attacks are starting to become more popular as companies solely depend on technology to get through their workdays as well to store most of their customers and employees confidential information. Most companies invest money on securing their databases to prevent any type of cyber attack and even though they try to prevent these types of events from occurring hackers are becoming more creative on the way they hack onto companies’ secured network. Hackers go through tremendous amounts of time in order to get to a secured network in order to get the information they are seeking or just to go through private information for their own personal gain. Secured networks are set up throughout organizations to minimize the possibility of a cyber attack from occurring along with other security measures to protect the private information that is being held on those secured networks. Most of the attacks that occur are mainly from people that are disgruntle towards certain companies for their type of work or actions that they have done but others take advantage and commit crimes that affect others. Mark Pollitt, special agent for the FBI, offers a working definition: “Cyberterrorism is the premeditated, politically motivated attacks against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data which result in violence against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.”(Denning, Dorothy E.) Other cyber attacks are meant to steal valuable...
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...overall performed poorly. The overnight or third shift had an immediate response to the attack by taking the initiative to call the CIO at 4:30 am to inform him about the malicious incident and to drive down to the data center because no one on the Qdata phone was being helpful. Bob Turley should have pulled the plug much sooner. He had been working at iPremier for nearly three months and should have been aware of the company’s limited hacker defense capabilities. That awareness would have meant that iPremier was very vulnerable to anything beyond the most basic cyber-attacks. There was suspicion that the hackers could be stealing credit card information, yet he left the system up and running. The plug was only pulled after the legal counsel advised him to do so. Every second waiting to pull the plug could have been more and more damaging to the company, customers, and employees. A worst case scenario must be assumed in such a vulnerable situation. Another mishap was when Bob told an employee not to call the police because it could hurt the stock price. The stock price should not have been Bob’s most pressing concern considering law enforcement has resources available to assist iPremier in identifying or defending against the attack. There was also precious time wasted by waiting for his boss to call before Bob finally asked him to contact Qdata for assistance. Question 2 The attack shed light on the various vulnerabilities iPremier had. Because people are the first line...
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...President Bush’s address to the nation following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 was short, sweet, and to the point. He used various methods to address what had happened, who it happened to, and to convey his sympathies to the American public. Here, I will identify some of these methods, deduce them, and explain the difference between what was said, what was heard, and the intended implications spoken by the president. President Bush starts his address to the nation by saying “our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks.” In this opening, he is setting the stage for the rest of his speech. It was intended to captivate and hold the attention of his intended audience. By opening his speech with this statement, he tells his audience that we, America, was attacked (an act of war) on purpose today, and by doing so; our way of life was also attacked. This is intended to bring Americans together and to share in this atrocity by implicating that it was not just those individuals who were victims of the attacks who were the intended targets, but it is all Americans whose lives will be forever altered by this event. He goes on to tell us that it was not an open act of war in that our military was not the ones who were attacked, but civilians, and he gives the public a scale in which to measure the devastation by indicating that there were thousands of “innocent” people who were directly harmed in these “evil,...
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...increase its ability to conduct cyberattacks, to create a deterrent against other countries that are attacking it. The growing American capabilities in cyberweapons are hardly a secret: They were critical to a yearslong American and Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and descriptions of the placement of “implants” in foreign computer systems — for surveillance and potential offensive action — run through thousands of pages of documents released by Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor. But the willingness of Adm. Michael S. Rogers to discuss purely offensive cyberweapons in his appearance before the Armed Services Committee comes at a moment when the Obama administration is reluctantly experimenting with how to discuss the subject in public, much as it gradually began to talk about drone strikes a few years ago. Admiral Rogers, who heads both the National Security Agency and its military cousin, United States Cyber Command, was answering questions about how the United States could deter attacks like the kind that struck Sony Pictures Entertainment. President Obama has said publicly that the attack originated in North Korea. When pressed, Admiral Rogers said that erecting ever-higher digital fences would never be enough, and that “we have got to broaden our capabilities to provide policy makers and operational commanders with a broader range of options. Because in the end, a purely defensive reactive strategy will be both late”...
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...The unexpected outcome provides the reader with the fierce shock of reality on a personal level. Since the only name given to the woman is “wife” and the odds were “1 to 910 against her strolling past the Embassy,” the reader is given the impression that this is something that could happen to anyone, anywhere (Merrill 907). The shift in tone from detached to very personal provides the reader with the stark contrast between a generalized newscast and the very personal level on which people are affected by the events being covered. The events that make the news, however, have a different effect on different individuals, which Merrill suggests in the last two lines of “Casual Wear.” In line eleven, Merrill provides the outcome of the attack for both the terrorist and the tourist; the terrorist is left with the satisfaction of “claiming responsibility,” while...
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...used to access online accounts. He also admitted to impersonating payroll officers in conversations he had with ADP, which is based in New Jersey. The case resulted from a collaboration between the banks and the Federal Bureau of Investigation against Nwaki, a.k.a. Shawn Conley, who was arrested in December on charges of wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers. Each count, to which Nwaki pleaded guilty, carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000; sentencing is set for Aug. 15, 2012. According to court records, Nwaki and six co-conspirators, between August 2000 and June 2010, worked across three continents to launch phishing attacks through spoofed websites designed to mimic banks and payroll processors such as ADP. When online users visited the spoofed pages, they were asked to provide confidential personal and financial information, such as dates of birth, Social Security numbers, mothers' maiden names, and online account user names and passwords. Having obtained log-in credentials and answers to commonly-asked security questions, the hackers accessed online accounts to make unauthorized transfers to accounts they controlled and/or wired...
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...Phelps 1. The Court holds that the picketing pertained to a matter of “Public concern” because members of the Westboro church basically attacked this funeral. Family members were grieving the loss of their son, their soldier that was killed in Iraq, giving his own life for his country. And the members of this church were throwing verbal attacks, not counting with all the signs they took showing how they hate soldiers because of the homosexuality existing in the service, not having idea that it was the case for this deceased soldier. The fact here is that this was a public matter, because it interrupted the community peace and those are subjects that society (public) are concern in every day basis. 2. A captive audience is a group of people who listen or to watch someone or something because they cannot leave. 3. Because he could not agree with the Court and what the Court rely on. Westboro Church caused this father great pain and the Court denies him for what he suffered. Westboro Church was addressing public issues, but that is different than attacking a person when they are in pain for the loss of a son. He was a victim of their attack. Page 178 Case 6.2 Brown v. Entertainment merchants Association 1. The issue before the Court was the sale of certain violent video games to children without parent’s permission. These video games have violence; killing, and pornography, enemies with weapons, using explosives to destroy structures, dangerous races with cars becoming...
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...internet security. The three current major ones are health care, education and government. Healthcare, education, and government accounted for nearly two-thirds of all identities breached in 2012. More than 88 percent of attacks that are known are those performed by people outside those companies that are being attacked. Some of these attacks are very well planned and obviously an inside job there are examples given in the article about how people in the military have sent messages to others that have malware attached in them. According to the article web based attacks have increased by nearly 33 percent and it is continuing to grow. Health care in particular is a major threat since it contains so much personal data with all of the patient information that there is. Education counties to be a treat year after year due to the number of schools and information that can be accessed since most schools do not have the security that most major corporations have and last but definitely not leas is the government for so many reasons will always be a threat whether it is out of hate or just monetary gain the government will always have a target on its back. As time goes on and since we are still so new to the World Wide Web there will be even more sophisticated attacks planed and made every day, but so is security. at its current pace hackers seem to usually be one step ahead of the agencies that they are attacking however because of how much attention hackers are getting now because of...
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...port scans are examples of the threats that most organizations are likely to face. These two probes are the two major and fundamental ways through which hackers and crackers will assess the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and design a plan to break in (Baskin, 2008). It is important that our organization understands the two primary attacks and their approach so that we can prevent them from taking place and proactively mitigate our risk of attack. Our competitive world and fast-paced market dictates that we effectively decrease our exposure to cyber attacks to protect the integrity of our data and infrastructure due to attack resulting from port scans or ping sweeps. The term “ping sweep” is a process that involves the attacker learning more about the functioning of our existing systems. For instance, if an attacker attempts to breach our servers, he or she will be able to detect if the system is active by performing a ping sweep. This will likely be an attacker’s first step in their attempts to probe our organization for vulnerabilities. The results of the ping sweep will assist the attacker to identify possible points of attack and available targets. After this process has been noted, the attacker will then apply some more measures so as to identify the security codes that are used in the organization (Graves, 2007). Once someone has an access to the security codes of an organization, the organization is extremely vulnerable and significantly compromised....
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...Rock piere Mrs. Rubin AP language August 20, 2012 AP language and composition summer reading 102 MINUTES 1. The lights are ringing an the market is going to open (pg.34) 2. After fighting high-rise fires in midtown Manhattan, New York City, for the past ten years, in my opinion that the fire service has been lucky (pg.107). 3. About five floors from the top, you have about fifty people with their faces pressed against the windows trying to breathe (pg. 136). 4. In the name of god a voice wailed. in the name of god, in the name of god (pg. 156). 5. I just saw a guy rip his shirt off because it was on fire and jump (pg. 32) Catastrophe- an event producing a subversion of the order or system of things, a final event, usually of a calamitous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. It’s a catastrophe because everyone is jumping for their life hence the great mistune of the planes that have hit the burning building. Astonishing- so remarkable as to elicit belief: amazing, fabulous, fantastic, and marvelous phenomenal, prodigious. It is astonishing that after all that is taking course the people is still in the building trying to start business instead of trying to evacuate. Heartbreaking- causing overwhelming grief or distress, producing a strong emotional reaction extremely sad or pitiful It is heartbreaking because the people are crying and calling out in the name of god. Disaster- a sudden event, such as an accident or a natural...
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...1/6 MISSION ANALYSIS WORKSHEET Page 1 of 2 YOUR PURPOSE – Penetrate the enemy’s defenses to secure the crossing sites over Stony Creek IOT allow the ME to continue on to attack the MEB Obj. YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO HIGHER AND ADJACENT PURPOSES 1/6 (Rein) prevents the enemy’s guard force (1/87th (Rein) from conducting a successful delay, which allows the 34th MID’s main effort (86th MIBR) to establish a prepared defense. This allows the RCT’s main effort to rapidly pass forward to destroy the enemy in the vicinity of (vic) MEB Obj 1 (RCT-6 task) in order to deny the 34th MID an orderly withdraw through JTF-V Obj A. SPECIFIED TASKS Conduct a forward passage of lines with LAR as passing force *Attack in zone to destroy En forces in vic of Reg Obj 2 Conduct a forward passing of lines with 3/6 at Phase Line Green BPT follow on ME’s attack to MEB Obj *Secure key crossing sites on Stony Creek Locate Artillery Battalion Located Tank Reserve Turn over EPWs to CLB Report usable LZs to RCT S-4 Plan NBC decontamination sites IMPLIED TASKS Breach obstacles en route to Reg Obj 2 Use engineering assets to create a crossing location on Stony Creek if current bridges are not capable. BPT continue attack with MOPP level increase LIMITATIONS (CONSTRAINTS [C] and RESTRAINTS [R]) [C] Fires into no-fire areas (NFA) must be approved by RCT-6 fire support coordination center (FSCC). (p. 71) [C] MOPP level 1. (p. 48) [C] Report battalion...
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... Some Pokemon have seperate reference pages, which I have included below. Any pages that are photocopied anime shots of a Pokemon attacking are animator's references for drawing specific attacks (even if it is not the Pokemon in the image attacking)! (i apologize for the poor quality of raikou-bot!) i'm missing reference sheets of: flaaffy, magnezone, magneton (movie 11 settei lot would do it! :D) the six rotoms if you ever see these around, do let me know! Gym Battle AG40 Storyboard! ポケモンAG アニメ40話 絵コンテ I own a complete 122 page storyboard for AG Episode #40, the Gym Battle with Wattson! A storyboard is a very rough, quickly drawn "image script" for the episode. I plan to scan all of the pages.... eventually! Until then, patience, and a teaser! Height Charts! Some height comparison charts from a few anime episodes that starred some adorable Electric Pokemon! Click for bigger sizes. And from the Legend of Thunder, Raikou's movie! I apologize for the poor quality, as I do not actually own it. It was just too awesome a chart to pass up even though I only found a small image of it. Raichu, Luxray, Luxio and Shinx Special Pages! LIONS These are studio copies of some sketches used in Movie 10, during the garden scene when all the Pokemon fight! Thunder Fang attack reference sheet with Luxray! And Iron Tail as well!...
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...APPLIED TO NEGOTIATION 36 CHINESE STRATEGIES The Original 36 Strategies Contemporary Maxims 1 Cross the Sea by Deceiving the Sky. Act in the open, but hide your true intentions. 2 Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao. Attack their Achilles heel. 3 Kill with a Borrowed Knife. Attack using the strength of another person. 4 Relax and Wait for the Adversary to Tire Himself Out. Await leisurely the exhausted enemy. Exercise patience and wear them down 5 Loot a Burning House. Hit them when they are down. 6 Make a Feint to the East While Attacking in the West. Fake to the right; attack to the left. 7 Create Something Out of Nothing. Turn something that is not substantial into reality. 8 Secretly Utilize the Chen Cang Passage (CNC). Pretend to Advance Down One Path While Taking Another Hidden Path (LB). Pretend to care about an issue and later give it up to get what you really want. 9 Watch the Fire Burning from Across the River. Allow them to fight your other enemy while you rest and observe. Later, defeat the exhausted survivor. 10 Conceal a Dagger in a Smile. Befriend them to get their guard down, then attack their weakest point. 11 Sacrifice a Plum Tree to Save a Peach Tree (RM). Let the Plum Tree Wither in Place of the Peach Tree (TF). Trade up! Take a small loss for a large gain. 12 Take Away a Goat in Passing. Take advantage of every small opportunity. 13 Beat the Grass to Startle the Snake. Stir things up before beginning to negotiate for your true interests. 14...
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