Not only user name and passwords can be stored by websites, but data such as credit card numbers, name, income, age and other information used together could give someone access to your entire livelihood. Even if one individual website only stores one piece of information, the combination…
What is Crystal Ransomware? Crystal Ransomware is a dubious PC contamination recognized as ransom. This notorious PC threat is a dreadful document encryption virus that utilizations AES and RAS ciphers to lock your records. It can undoubtedly intrude in your machine without consent and encrypt every one of your information without authorization. It will add its own extension to the end of all of your documents and make them blocked off. When you will endeavor to open your report, it will…
Clicking on Enticing Ads Clicking on advertisements can sometimes be a problem because they might be fake advertisements. Usually advertisements that sound too good to be true are a lie and can have viruses or hackers. By clicking these ads, it could damage your computer and even hack into credit card numbers or accounts. This is why you should be careful when clicking an advertisement from a company you never heard of. Always check advertisement companies using Google before clicking an ad.…
Background Statement I am currently the CEO of a large Health Services Organization (HSO) located at Florida. It has inpatient and outpatient services, home healthcare facilities, and a world well-known AIDS treatment center. My HSO has always enjoyed an excellent reputation, until recently someone downloaded the names of 4,000 HIV+ patients and sent the list all around the world. The board of trustees blames me for this unforeseen incident and they are so furious that they wanted me fired. I…
The following is a list and brief detailing of the organizations current risks. These threats are generalized there is a specific list of threats to the embassy listed later. Risks and Challenges Acts of Nature Include Lightening storms, hail storms, tornado’s earthquakes floods or any other natural disaster you could think of that could possibly disrupt daily operations and make data unavailable for any reasons. Dependency Failures Include systems or personal that become inoperable that are…
personal information such as mobile phone numbers, email addresses, online gaming account username and password, credit card numbers so on, so they can sell online. The example of this kind of security breach happened most recently the hacker has been posted millions of Yahoo user’s personal data to a marketplace on dark web. It is to believe that the same hacker also previously sold millions of passwords and email addresses stolen from social networking and professional networking websites.…
Storing passwords using reversible encryption is essentially the same as storing plaintext versions of the passwords. For this reason, this policy should never be enabled unless application requirements outweigh the need to protect password information. This policy is required when using Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) authentication through remote access…
Users, and all assets of ABC Company, which include but are not limited to network devices such as router, switches, and computers, properties such as office and computer room. Audit requirements are also addressed in this section. Authentication and Password All Users shall be held accountable for every action carried out by his/her…
As the Internet becomes an increasingly integral part of daily life, questions about privacy and security on the Internet are on the rise. Keeping your personal information, private data and finances safe can be difficult, but by following a few tips, you can avoid the vast majority of scams, spyware and privacy breaches. 1. Be Aware The best tool to avoid spyware and stay safe on the Internet is your own brain. Free software with no potential upgrades or strings attached, websites that are…
Here are some basic requirement to have a company network that can be fast and reliable I would like to have some time to talk to your IT manager to know where we are, and know the needs. Your IT manager might have most of this suggestion deployed already, in that case this can be used as a check list I will try to help as much as possible and I will be open to do any configuration of any device when you need me to ( I can do that from here) 1. The size of the company needs to be taken in…