...Preventing Session Hijacking in Cloud Computing Sasha Melanie Personal Research Paper 20th October 2015 Abstract The idea of Cloud processing is turning out to be a well-known concept every passing day particularly in the field of computing and information technology. It refers to both applications that are conveyed as administrations over the Internet and also as resources (software and hardware) in the data centres. With this kind of advancement, the cloud computing technology raises many security concerns. There are several vulnerabilities that come along with cloud computing that may be exploited by attackers through security threats such as session hijacking. This paper gives an overview of the cloud as well as session hijacking highlighting the key vulnerability areas that every organization need to put into consideration before any implementation of cloud computing. The paper gives the basis for further research that would help curb the challenge of session hijacking in cloud computing. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract 2 CHAPTER ONE 5 1.0 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 Motivation for the study 6 1.2 Premises of the study 7 1.3 Problem Statement 7 1.4 Technical objectives of the study 7 CHAPTER TWO 9 2.0 RELATED WORK 9 2.1 Issues with Cloud Computing 9 2.2 ANALYSIS OF SESSION HIJACKING 9 2.2.1 Cookies: 10 2.2.2 TCP session capturing 10 2.3 PREVENTING SESSION HIJACKING 11 2.3.2 Information encryption programming 11 2.3.3 Virus Detection Applications 12 2.3.4 Digitized...
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...Information Security Risk Analysis Top Five Threats to the Server # | Threat | Description | Likelihood of Occurance | Severity of Impact | Controllability | 1 | Denial of Service | Disruption of service to users. | High | High | Medium | 2 | Malware | Software used to gain access to computer system, gather sensitive information, or disrupt computer operations. | High | Medium | High | 3 | Principle of “Least Privilege” | Ensuring users have only the needed privileges for their job functions. | Low | High | High | 4 | Brute Force Attacks | Attempts to guess the password to a system. | High | Medium | High | 5 | Buffer Overflow | An anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overwrites mmemory. | Low | High | Medium | Server Threat Likelihood of Occurrence and Protection Recommendations This section describes the likelihood of threats to the server mentioned above and recommended preventative controls. 1. Denial of Service are attacks where the objective is to bring down the server and to render services unavailable to others. This can be done by ping attacks and SYN flood attacks. To prevent these DOS attacks you want to make sure you are running an IPS on your network or your hosting provider has one. An IPS can detect when a SYN flood is happening and block the connections from the malicious machine. It can also detect when more than usual requests are being made for your network and reroute the traffic. If a DOS attack is already taking...
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...is innocent, but not in a good way. Kate believes she is not brave. Kate says to herself, “ I’m not heroic, I’m not brave.” Kate has to summon all of her bravery to try and drive the bus away. Kate is very caring and is always putting the children first. She offers her own life for a child that she does not even know. She comforts the children when they wake up from a nightmare and she soothes them back to sleep. Kate is always putting others before herself and thinks of her safety second. I think that Kate is very brave even in the toughest of situations. Kate tries to win Miro over to make it harder for Miro to kill her. She tells Miro that she think Artkin is his father and this makes him kill Kate. Artkin is the leader of the bus hijacking operation. He...
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...occurs when a client or counsellor set aside time in order to explore difficulties or change in a safe and confidential place. Counselling can help the client to see things more positively and clearly, this can enable the client to specifically focus on feelings, experiences or behaviour, with a goal to have an appropriate positive response. It is advised that counsellors arrive 15 minutes to prior to counselling session to ensure the room is prepared and this time could also be used for the counsellor to get in the right frame of mind. Allowing clients to see preparatory behaviour can negatively interfere with how competent they perceive their counsellors. Prepared meaning the room is at a comfortable temperature not to hot or too cold. The room should be clean, showing no sign of previous clients such as clean coffee table. The seating should be 45 degree angle, as this is the best way to observe body language without creating a confrontational effect, also making sure that there are no obstructions e.g. table, removing furniture will make the counselling session seem less formal. The closeness of the counsellor will indicate attentiveness and willingness. It’s also essential that tissue and water is available. It has been reported that sunlight has a positive effects on stress and feelings of anxiety, so soft and...
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...Experiences of misunderstanding at work scenario 1 Last year as we were preparing for our quarterly meeting, somewhere along the line in our group a misunderstanding occurred within the group. The operations market team who are responsible for putting the quarterly meeting consist of six staff. Five of the staff in the group has been with the company over six years. The last member on the team was a recent transfer from another department, though has also been with the company for about six years as well. Therefore, the majority of the team had taken part in previous market meetings except for the new member. We received an email directed to the team from the Partner in charge of the meeting with bullet points of what each person was expected to do prior to the meeting. The meeting was scheduled one month from the time of the initial email. We knew we had a deadline to meet and what was expected had been outlined in the email. We all proceeded to work on our respective parts, as each part was involved with the other therefore keeping constant communication was key to meeting the deadline. The team noticed that the new team member was not being responsive to emails and it was extremely important we know of her progress since all parts were integral of each other and without her input we were lost. Her non-responsiveness caused stress among the team because we did not know if her portion was completed, and this was imperative for the rest of us to complete our part....
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...This entails the process of outlining the objectives and laying down the aims of the meeting prior to allocation of duties and responsibilities to be observed during the meeting. This step lays the foundation for the next step which is concerned with the desired outcomes of the proceeding, meeting or session. This second step is majorly concerned with the foreseeable results and expectations of all the stake holders of the meeting. The desired outcomes, much like the purpose, are written down and act as a guide or general framework for the meeting. The third step is concerned with allocation or assigning of roles of the facilitator, the overseer, the time keeper and the scribe. These are the primary players and regulators of the meeting who are charged with the duties of setting the agenda rolling. The facilitator is the key regulator of the meeting with the scribe taking down minutes and the time keeper allocating durations for all steps. The fourth step is setting the agenda, a comprehensive statement of the major objectives of the meeting which connect the purposes of the session to the foreseeable results. The last step is concerned with establishment and allocation of time for each item on the agenda. The mining group gold is a process that is effective for all types of proceedings or meetings. The primary roles of the primary and secondary facilitator include creating an open and collaborative amicable environment for the team members to effectively attain positive results...
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...Memorandum To: Largecompany.com CC: Administrator, Office Managers/Assistants From: Brad Dotson, Director of Training and Development Date: 3/4/2015 Re: Compliance Training Project Budget The proposed project for the company offsite 2-day training session to be conducted in San Diego, California on May 4-5, has been given a preliminary go ahead. This memo will discuss the financial implications of the project in terms of cost estimates of all resources and related tasks over the entire duration of the project. ESTIMATED BUDGET Travel Expenses • Airfare – A total of 16 managers will be flown in to the event, and will be provided round-trip tickets on United Airlines. 2 San Francisco, CA ($154 x 2) = $ 308 4 Salt Lake City, UT ($280 x 4) = 1120 4 Denver, CO ($254 x 4) = 980 6 Sacramento, CA (183 x 6) = 1098 Total = $3506 --(https://www.united.com/web/en-US/default.aspx?root=1) • Mileage Allowance – 2 local managers will be driving to event and will be compensated $0.57/per mile (60miles) $0.57 x 60 = $ 34.20 $68.40 x 2 = Total = $ 68.40 -- (http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/New-Standard-Mileage-Rates-Now-Available;-Business-Rate-to-Rise-in-2015) Accommodations • Hotel Rooms – 2 Trainers and 16 attendees traveling from out-of-town will be staying on site; One(1) night at the Double Tree Hotel & Conference...
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...Executive Summary City Area Parent Support (CAPS) are looking into the development of a new project, the project will serve parents and carers whom are caring for a loved one struggling with substance misuse issues or addiction. Evening Support Sessions (The ESS Group) will give carers an opportunity to engage in structured group support sessions. CAPS have identified through research a gap in provision for those carers who perhaps can’t access support because of other responsibilities such as needing to work, within the typical service delivery hours of between 9am & 5pm. This project will serve any parent or carer living in the City area including surrounding areas. This will be a pilot short term project with the hope of development in the future depending on the outcomes and its success. It is a simple plan which will promote social inclusion, tackle isolation and provide an opportunity for carers to build effective relationships and friendships with others in a similar situation. Introduction City Area Parent Support (CAPS) is a registered charitable organisation established since 2007 and based in the xxxx Area of City. CAPS provide both practical and emotional support to parents and carers whom are troubled by addiction within the family across the city. Mission CAPS – Providing a warm non- judgemental, confidential and friendly environment to parents and carers suffering the negative effects...
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...University of Phoenix Material Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership in Motion: Part One Learning Team Project Students are grouped into teams of three to five according to established criteria. Then, teams engage in a project that integrates collaborative and reflective practice in the following steps: • Identify a problem or need that exists in your emerging doctoral community. The identified problem or need should be intrinsic and unique to your specific cohort. Your team must provide empirical evidence of the problem or need. • Design an intervention to address the problem or need. The intervention’s design should include a systematic means of qualitatively assessing the intervention’s effect and a means of implementing changes to the intervention to ensure its long-term effectiveness in the community. In other words, build into the design explicit opportunities for praxis-oriented feedback loops and adjustments throughout the implementation process. • As a team, critically reflect on the team dynamics and processes that emerged during your teamwork. For example, what kinds of power exist in the team, and where does power reside? How does the team privilege or silence voices? Whose voices are privileged or silenced? What kinds of authority does the team use, and where does that authority reside? What tensions exist between explicit and implicit dynamics and processes? • As a team, articulate ideas for responding to and addressing issues of previously...
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...find each step of the training session to include the preparation. The purpose of this memo is to explain each step along the way. Preparation The initial planning of the meeting will take some extra preparation. The next couple of days will entail gathering information that is necessary on the training staff that will be needed for the two days of training. The Human Resources department will be responsible for providing the list. Along with the preparation we also need to look at the facilities that will be available for the company to use. The list should be reviewed within a timely manner to narrow down the possibilities and setting one location for the accommodations and training room. There are some venues that has helped the company out before so it would be best to reach out to them again and see if they possibly would have any openings. The IT department will be responsible for creating a list of all necessary hardware which will be needed for the training session, during this period. Training Staff Once the list of trainers that will be available for the training session is complete and obtained the best thing to do would be to categorize the trainers by experience. Anyone requiring recommendations should speak to the managers and trainers for assistance. Both trainers and managers have been notified and will be standing by in the event that anyone may need them. The trainers will be appointed to the individual session according to their experience. ...
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...Plan: The following one-hour agenda is a suggestion for each session to keep the book study group focused and punctual: 5 minutes: Overview 45 minutes: Group Discussion 5 minutes: Reflections 5 minutes: Reading and Role Assignments Introduction | Brief Overview/Distribution of Materials/Role Assignments | Session One | Chapter One: Pull the Weeds Before You Plant the FlowersChapter Two: The Personal Change Readiness AssessmentChapter Three: The Organizational Change Readiness Assessment | Session Two | Chapter Four: Cultural ChangeChapter Five: Confronting the Myths of Change Leadership | Session Three | Chapter Six: Leadership LeverageChapter Seven: The Right Team | Session Four | Chapter Eight: Building Capacity With CoachingChapter Nine: Making Strategic Planning Work | Session Five | Chapter Ten: Closing the Implementation GapChapter Eleven: The Flywheel | Session Six | Chapter Twelve: Building Stakeholder SupportChapter Thirteen: Defining Change | Session Seven | Chapter Fourteen: Sustaining ExcellenceChapter Fifteen: Lessons Across the GlobeChapter Sixteen: Teacher Leadership | Materials for Each Participant: * Folder * Post-it Notes * Highlighter * Reflection Sheet * Book: Leading Change in Your School Members of the Leadership Team will meet in the Professional Learning Room. Materials will be distributed. Each participant will write his/her name on the folder containing the agenda, reflection sheet, and role...
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...Running head: FORENSIC CASES Forensic Cases Stephanie Rudolph Kaplan University IT 550 Computer Forensic and Investigation Prof: Bhanu Kapoor November 26, 2013 Abstract People are the most difficult creatures on earth to understand. Some have the mind set of doing some the off the wall and unacceptable things using technology. In this paper I have discussed location and the type of data you will find in in the case of a financial fraud and a child pornography case. Later in the paper discusses the procedures that and investigator might take to collect data from a suspect system. I will also provide a simple tool that can be used to collect all type of data from different location, making the investigator job much easier and help maintain the integrity of the evidence collected to be presented in court. . Forensic Cases There are many location that and investigator search to obtain data using computer forensic tools in a case on financial fraud and child pornography cases. In the case of a financial fraud emails can provide investigators with information not only the text but also the headers. The email headers can provide investigators with the information of who created the email, what software they used and the IP addressed that sent it. The email header also provide a date and time was sent. Credit card data shows the activity of charges. It show the...
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...what was said but her son just exploded. Client stated she is “concerns because she does not want anyone to hurt him and he gets angry over the least a little bit of thing that someone says to him”. As a result client reports arguing with her son and they both end up anger at one another. She is an older parent, and she reports have a little patience with her son. (O) Client is a little frustration in reference to her son angry issues. In the beginning of the counseling session the client appears frustrated when she discusses some examples of her disagreement with her son about his anger and temper issues. Towards the end of the session the client was smiling and able to identify a better way to talk to her son by using different approach without being so angry. (A) Client feels hurt and anger because she is unable to communicate with her son when he gets anger. Client reports she unable find the right words to communicate with her son. Counselor and client were able to do a small role play during the session. This gave the client a chance to image the counselor as her son and the client was able to express her emotions and feelings when her son does not want to communicate right away. In addition she was able to look at the situation from her son perspective. The client...
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... Write the final question so it involves a scenario that requires the caseworker to determine whether to abide by the duty to warn or the duty to protect. Complete the questionnaire as if you were one of the caseworkers applying for the position. |Question |Your answer | |How would you handle a client that you know is not telling the truth |I would explain to that client that if they are not accurately sharing| |in your sessions? |their story I would be unable to help them. | |If a client wanted you to go have coffee after a session to continue |As a professional I would have to explain that we would have to | |talking would you go? |continue our conversation our next session. Since I know as a | | |professional we should never assume more than one role with the | | |client. | |How do you plan to continue you education? |I am working on my Bachelor’s...
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...Briefly outline and describe the essential elements of a solution-based, short-term pastoral counseling strategy such as its goal-orientation; brief (i.e., number of sessions) and time-limited (i.e., length of each session) nature; basic tenets and guiding assumptions (briefly explain each tenet and assumption), essential interpersonal skills, and possible behavioral positions (i.e., attending, blaming, willing). The goal-orientation for the short-term pastoral counseling should be to get the counselee to focus on their own goals that they have for themselves, and not so much what others or the counselor has for them. The class presentation, Overview of a Solution-Based, Short-Term Strategy, presents that you should limit the counseling to four sessions of either 50, 60, or 90 minutes. These limits fit well within the examples that Kollar gives throughout chapters 8 through 11. Phase 1 – Getting the Present Story The main purpose of this phase is to intently listen to the counselee and gain a solid understanding of where they are coming from. The goal is for the counselor is to actively listen to the counselee. “Active listening mirrors or paraphrases back to the speaker what he has just said, thus confirming for the speaker that he has been heard.” (Kollar, 2011, p. 92) The chief aim to this counseling session is to develop an overall solid picture of the present state of where the counselee is coming from. The counselor’s role in this phase is as a listener and confidant...
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