Cryptography

When it comes to password security, we are faced with a serious conundrum. While we want to remember the password, we still need to practice safe security with a good one. The trouble with the easier to remember passwords is that they are highly insecure. What can you do to combat this problem? When you are using uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers to compensate, you can use what is known as a passpoem to resolve the problem of remembering. As Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin…

Coroner's Toolkit is a group of basically free tools designed by Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer to be used in the forensic analysis of a UNIX machine. There are several reasons as to why local law enforcement agencies. First, the Coroner's Toolkit is specifically designed to be used in cyber-crime investigation (Farmer & Venema, 2005). This is an exceptionally powerful suite and therefore proper training of UNIX is a major condition in order to manage the Toolkit. Another important reason for…

1) Eavesdropping: It can be defined as secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent. Here an attacker can choose to passively eavesdrop on the network communication and steal the data. Through passive eavesdropping attackers apparently eliminate their presence in the network and make such attacks difficult to detect. The goal of such an attack is to violate the confidentiality of the communications by intercepting the network and sniffing or listening to…

Codenamed Ultra by the British military intelligence because of its highest security classification. Many people that signed on to be apart of Ultra had to sign the Official Secret Acts and were told that they were going to be breaking German encrypted messages. The job of the people involved were to break high-level encrypted messages sent through the German military, using the Enigma as a form of communication during World War II. In order to accomplish the utmost important task of cracking…

Let’s save the world through the internet for the first time in the history of humanity, we can use smart, programmable and decentralized money. this has seismic implications. forcing transparency to governments, disrupting bank monopolies, democratise the stock market, and dramatically reduce the cost of sending money.…

Data insecurity Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) believes that the data is less secured when it is in use. There are different views of every organization. This is because every entity has its own experience and its opinion is based over it. The account might be high jacked, or there might be data breaches, or it is possible that it might be an inside job. The management or the owner is the first person who is responsible in case of any illegal activity. It is crucial to determine the reason of the…

Renowned computer scientists and historians alike have hailed Alan Turing as the “father of the modern computer.” This is no small claim if one considers the tremendous impact computers have on humanity. Innovations like the internet and email have massive effects on everyday life in the modern world, from every call made from a cell phone, to every pixel of data seen on a high-definition television screen, computation of one kind or another is involved in some way. There are countless worthy…

Money First is one of the largest banking institutions in the nation. The main goal of Money First is the satisfaction of their customers. This is a multi-facetted goal which includes the accepts of security and data backup. For the past 50 years, data has been increasingly being considered to be an asset to organizations. Therefore, organizations are becoming more concerned about data security strategies and backup management plans. Money First is no different. Customers expect their…

Wason Selection tasks What if there are 4 cards on the table: A, K, 2 and 7. On one side of the card there is a number and on the other a letter. You have to decide which cards to turn in order to determine if the following statement is false: If a card has a vowel on one side, then it has an even number on the other side. This is called the Wason Selection task a famous reasoning puzzle (Dawson, Gilovich, Regan, 2002). The answer to this problem is cards A and 7 instead of the most commonly…

In an age of industrial progress and communication mechanisms emerging, the enigma was invented just after World War I. Though Germany believed their machine was "unbreakable", the efforts to find a flaw in their system were ultimately successful. With the state-of-the-art technology and ingenuity of the inventors, the enigma had the potential to give Germany extreme advantages during World War II, but simple mistakes cost the country their machine's success as well as their success in the war.…