...N.S.A snooping the damage is done The article that I read is about the N.S.A snooping. The N.S.A is an organization that was created to protect the United States of America. the N.S.A (National security agency) has abused the power that was granted to them by the the us government. In may of 2013, Edward Snowden reviled to the world, what the N.S.A was doing. He informed the world that the N.S.A was collecting everyones information. President Obama had to apologize to several world leaders, because the N.S.A was tracking their phone calls. In a period of 30 days the N.S.A collected 70 million phone calls and messages. The N.S.A should not have the power to snoop on anyone they want. If they keep doing it, the U.S allies will not be happy. We live in a world that is run by the use of the internet. The internet allows people to share information with one another. People pay their bill using the internet. If they N.S.A continues to violate people’s privacy online, it could make some people scared to use online services. Many internet companies could be affected by this. The N.S.A is a agency that has helped the U.S government in the past. Technological advances has given them the ability to collect large amounts of informations. The united States government has granted them the freedom to use those technological advances. The problem is that the N.S.A is not using their power responsibly. They are creating problems with the U.S allies. They are hurting the online businesses...
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...social engineering. In my ????? class, Professor ???? talked about one particular example of social engineering dating back to ancient times, the Trojan Horse. It is considered one the most well-known examples of social engineering in history; a hollow statue built by the Greeks to allow them access to the city of Troy. This seemingly harmless wood statue was not apparent to be a threat by the Trojans and unfortunately resulted in the fall of the city of Troy to the Greeks. Social engineering works in somewhat the same way. In modern times it is a way for criminals to access your computer, office or confidential information for illegal purposes. In this paper, I will discuss 3 of the most common types of social engineering attacks; phishing, snooping and dumpster diving. Issues Analysis Firs I want to talk about one of the most common types of social engineering, phishing. Phishing is a computer criminal activity that uses a special engineering as a disguise on a website in order to acquire credit card information, social security, and other important information about the user. The first use of phishing started...
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...This week I looked into the article “Jealousy-Induced Sex Differences in Eye Gaze Directed at Either Emotional- or Sexual Infidelity–Related Mobile Phone Messages”. The article is a study done on in 2015 on 2,400 British adults who had been un- faithful, or who had discovered that their partner had been unfaithful. The article starts by discussing the term “snooping” meaning snooping through your partners personal life by checking their text messages, phone calls or social media. From the 2,400 people in the study 41% reported that the affair was exposed through snooping and checking for evidence on their partners phones. The article links the action of snooping to the emotion of jealousy, implying that if the relationship lacks trust, or one or more partner feels jealousy in the relationship a way to cope with this is by...
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...The purpose of the lab is to explore Layer 2 security features, such as port security, storm-control, DHCP snooping, private-VLANS, dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) inspection and IP source guard that maybe implemented on Cisco Catalyst switches. These security features are explored in order to protect a private network against attacks against a switch. Background Info on Lab Concepts Content Addressable Memory (CAM) Table Flooding CAM tables are limited in size. If enough entries are entered into the CAM table before previous entries expire, then the CAM table fills up and no Media Access Control (MAC) addresses may be added to the table. An attacker of a network +--usually floods the switch with a large number of invalid MAC addresses until the CAM table fills up. Then, the switch acts as a hub as it floods all ports with incoming packets because it cannot find the port number for the destination MAC address of the packet in the CAM table. The CAM table flooding broadcasts traffic within the local VLAN and the attacker...
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...Prewriting for Letter Assignment 1. Theme/Topic: (Choose: Education, Technology, Family, Health and Wellness) Technology- Perils of social networking, using social network to background check prospective employees 2. Angle: Arguable topics are those that have at least two sides. Choose a side that you agree or disagree with. I am going to argue that it is an unfair practice for potential employers to use social networking to disqualify candidates for future employment. 3. Purpose and Thesis: The purpose identifies whether you’re writing to support, refute, or extend the ideas of the publication to which you are responding. The thesis statement lets the reader know what to expect in your letter. To complete your thesis, start with a formula such as “I agree with [topic/issue/author] because…” OR “I do not agree with [topic/issue/author] because…” I do not agree with the practice of prospective employers using Facebook to investigate their employees. 4. Reader/Audience Profile a. Readers’ Expectations: Write down the specific expectations of readers of the publication and how you plan to accommodate them. Readers would expect to read why prospective employers should not use social media to investigate their job applicants. I will use examples from my research of how this practice can negatively affect the process of finding qualified candidates. b. Readers’ Values/Attitudes: Write down your readers’ values and attitudes toward the issue and how they...
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...Conclusion 10 References 10 Abstract Shared Memory Multi processors require cache coherence in order to keep cached values updated while performing operations. Snooping and directory based protocols are two well known standards of cache coherence. However both of them possess some problems. Snooping protocol is not scalable and is only suitable for systems of 2 to 8 SMP’s. Whereas directory based protocol gives rise to memory overhead when there are too many sharers of a particular block. We propose a novel protocol for cache coherence that exploits the private block of memory. Coherence protocol invoked only for shared data blocks. This reduces network and storage overhead and it does not compromise with scalability as well. Introduction Shared Memory Multi Processor has multiple processors with their caches and a global memory. Memory is connected with processors and a global address space is maintained. When a block of data is cached by one processor, it said to private. The block of data is called shared if more than one processor cache the same block of data. In later case it necessary that read operation of any processor should return the value that was recently written. This phenomenon is called cache coherence. Snooping protocol and directory based protocol are to de facto standards for cache coherence. Snooping protocol performs well in a bus based shared memory model. However it is not scalable. It is only good for small systems containing not more than 8 processors...
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...8 Ways To Prevent Financial Snooping Edward Snowden made waves internationally with his revelations about the electronic snooping the U.S. government does into personal communications. But government spooks aren’t the only people who may be trying to peer over your shoulder digitally. The growth of electronic banking has spurred growth in the number and sophistication of criminals using computers to pry into the private accounts of people and businesses. Getting taken by one of these criminals may not be as traumatic as an on-street mugging, but it can be every bit as costly. Here are some things you can do to protect your accounts from criminal snooping: 1. Cover the keypad. Behind you at the ATM or in line at the supermarket checkout, there may be someone waiting to casually observe your PIN for future use. Don’t even bother looking behind you — whatever the situation, get in the habit of using your free hand to screen the keypad as you type in your PIN. 2. Take a good look at that gas pump. Thieves are increasingly using credit card skimmers — devices that look like card readers, but that secretly transmit your credit card information to their operators. If the card reader at a gas pump seems loose-fitting, sticks out more than usual, or doesn’t quite match the surrounding equipment, notify a station employee — and don’t insert your card! 3. Don’t use public networks to view sensitive financial information. Online savings accounts and checking accounts may be increasingly...
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...220 This paper meets the requirements for this assignment. Collaborate with your learning team to discuss the previous week’s objectives Discuss what you learned, that could be applicable to your workplace or personal life and how your knowledge has increased as a result of what you experienced through the learning activities in the previous week Submit your team summary of the discussion in a 1-to 2-page Microsoft Word document. 1.1 Explain the benefits of information systems in the work environment. 1.2 Describe ethical issues related to information technology. 1.3 Use word processing tools to communicate business objectives 1.1 Benefits of information systems in the work environment. Information systems are intended for information. Information stored such as data and knowledge. Records of data such as employees’ hours, student grades, and student identification numbers are known as information systems. Knowledge is data and information that has been organized together. For example a student’s name along with the GPA is an organized data with information, which is easy to organize in a category for students with a GPA over 3.0. An information system supports business in working more precise, efficient, organized, and maximize productivity. Businesses have an electronic storage system to protect companies’ important information saved and secured. Information that is protected can be accessed by certain users in the company and IT has the control and protection...
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...Panda-Monium Stuart Gibbs is a mystery novel. It is the fourth installment of the series. The series is set at this zoo/theme park called Funjungle. The main character is Teddy Fitzroy, Teddy lives in the employe housing area behind the park because both his parents work at the park. The series is about diffrent animals disappearing and in every book he is usally the one to discover what happend to them. Every book foucuses on the disappearence or death of a diffrent animal from a Hippo to a Koala, then a Rhino to now a Panda. Teddy always does a bit of snooping around that puts him in danger but in the end he always connects the dots no matter how intractate the scheme. I think shows how he’s curious and gets involves with things he probally...
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...Student Name | Sherry taylor | Course and Section Number | Program of Study | Man1030 | business | Introduction to Business MAN1030 Week 2 Individual Work The Challenges to Ensure Your Organization Acts Ethically and is Socially Responsible Assignment Instructions | To complete this assignment: 1. Select question 1, 2, or 3 below and answer it in the space provided. 2. Reflect on the information presented in this week’s lesson and provide an insightful response to each question writing no more than two paragraphs. 3. An example of an excellent response is given for you. | Save and Submit to Dropbox | 1. Save your work as a Microsoft Word 2010 (.docx) file that includes your name, course code, and title in the file name. For example: JaneSmith_MAN1030_Week2.docx. 2. To submit your assignment, go to the Dropbox and click "Submit Assignment." 3. Click on the drop-down menu to select the Week 2: Individual Work basket in the Dropbox. | Objective:Describe the importance of business ethics and social responsibility. EXAMPLE:Find a current article about ethics in business. After reading the article, write a response in which you summarize the article and, in your own words, assess the article. | Example answer:I found an article discussing NSA spying on Verizon, and whether it was ethical for Verizon to disclose that it was providing NSA with all phone records. If the government requests data, I believe that Verizon should be more transparent...
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...Multicasting creates logical groups of hosts--messages sent to the group are received by all group members. Multicasting is typically used for streaming video and audio such as Microsoft's NetMeeting or Windows Media viewer. Without the ability to define multicast groups, messages that must be sent to a specific group could only use the following: * With unicasting, messages are sent to a specific host address. Using unicasting to send messages to a group of computers would mean that the sending device must know the IP address of all recipients, and must create a separate packet for each destination device. * With broadcasting, a single packet is sent to the broadcast address and is processed by all hosts. However, using broadcasting for sending data to a group would mean that all hosts, and not just group members, would receive the packet. In addition, broadcast packets are typically not forwarded by routers, so broadcast traffic is limited to within a single subnet. The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used to identify group members and to forward multicast packets onto the segments where group members reside. IGMP routers keep track of the attached subnets that have group members as follows: * A router sends out a host membership query. This query is addressed to the IP address of 224.0.0.1. * Hosts that are members of any group respond with a list of the groups to which the host belongs. Each group is identified with a multicast IP address...
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...Not only do strangers monitor us but the government can too. With the constant monitoring of our privacy both in public, private, and governmental level we are left with little information actually hidden from the public. Some of the ways that our home privacy is invaded is through convenient tools or apps that expand conveniences. The government isn’t as innocent as many of us may believe they don’t always want to ensure that our privacy is safe instead they want to know more about you and continue being the snooping top on your privacy. Conveniences are looked for now more then ever with the population today. If you can find a faster way to complete a task and it is more cost effective individuals do not think twice in using that option. Although it is beneficial to have some sort of convenience to your life you must assets these convince before installing them into your every day life. One example listed by Theresa Payton and Theodore Claypool (2014) is the snooping of our information through apps or tools that can remotely make changes like turning lights off (p. 188). The data produced by the app is often tracked by criminals to track when you are home and when you aren’t (Payton & Claypool, 2014, p. 188). When criminals know this type of information they can then decide whether it is worth their time to enter your home and steal any valuables. To ensure that your information is safe one must evaluate and app and know how the data they produced is used. It the data...
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...Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative-Value Arbitrage Rule Evan Gatev Boston College William N. Goetzmann Yale University K. Geert Rouwenhorst Yale University We test a Wall Street investment strategy, ‘‘pairs trading,’’ with daily data over 1962–2002. Stocks are matched into pairs with minimum distance between normalized historical prices. A simple trading rule yields average annualized excess returns of up to 11% for self-financing portfolios of pairs. The profits typically exceed conservative transaction-cost estimates. Bootstrap results suggest that the ‘‘pairs’’ effect differs from previously documented reversal profits. Robustness of the excess returns indicates that pairs trading profits from temporary mispricing of close substitutes. We link the profitability to the presence of a common factor in the returns, different from conventional risk measures. Wall Street has long been interested in quantitative methods of speculation. One popular short-term speculation strategy is known as ‘‘pairs trading.’’ The strategy has at least a 20-year history on Wall Street and is among the proprietary ‘‘statistical arbitrage’’ tools currently used by hedge funds as well as investment banks. The concept of pairs trading is disarmingly simple. Find two stocks whose prices have moved together historically. When the spread between them widens, short the winner and buy the loser. If history repeats itself, prices will converge and the arbitrageur will profit. It is hard to believe...
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...Bowie State University Department of Management Information Systems INSS 887: Emerging Issues in Information Security Assignment #3 Summer Session, 2014 Instructions: Answer each question thoroughly. Points will be deducted for fragmentary answers. The completed assignment should be submitted in the designated Drop Box by midnight on Sunday, July 27, 2014. 1. ABC Corporation has a thorough security plan for the primary and recovery systems used to ensure that even during a recovery the information is protected. Comprehensive plans are only a part of its efforts in securing recovery. Assuming that ABC will use contract employees for part of the recovery, describe how the company can mitigate the threat from using contract employees. 2. Britain plans to establish a dedicated military unit to counter cyber attacks. The unit will comprise of hundreds of computer experts to help defend Britain's national security. The plan is for the "cyber reservists" to work alongside regular forces in the new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit in a bid to protect key computer networks and safeguard data. According to Prime Minister David Cameron, the new capability would be able to "counter-attack in cyber-space and, if necessary, to strike in cyber-space as part of our full-spectrum military capability". "In response to the growing cyber threat, we are developing a full-spectrum military cyber capability, including a strike capability, to enhance the UK's range of military capabilities...
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...Student’s Name: Date: ITS111 – Introduction to IS Security Seminar One – Security in the News Attack 1 Title: Home Depot Hit By Same Malware as Target Type of Attack Description: BlackPOS infects computers running Windows that are part of POS systems and have card readers attached to them. Once installed on a POS system, the malware identifies the running process associated with the credit card reader and steals payment card Track 1 and Track 2 data from its memory. This is the information stored on the magnetic strip of payment cards and can later be used to clone them. Attack Description: Its a new variant of “BlackPOS” (a.k.a. “Kaptoxa”), a malware strain designed to siphon data from cards when they are swiped at infected point-of-sale systems running Microsoft Windows. Attack 1 Reference(s) Constantin, L. (2013). Krebs on Security. Retrieved from http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/home-depot-hit-by-same-malware-as-target/ Attack 2 Title: The Sony Pictures hack, explained Type of Attack Description: hackers implanted Wiper on Sony's computer infrastructure, a malware software program designed to erase data from the servers. That malware uses Microsoft Windows’ own management and network file sharing features to propagate, shut down network services, and reboot computers Attack Description: It was an attack by North korea in response to the movie “The Interview” a comedy about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader. The attackers stole huge...
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