Active Directory

With over one billion users, Facebook has emerged as one of the most popular sites since its release. Back in 2010, it was the second most visited website behind Google, and accounted for over 600 million daily active users. To this day, it has lost its second place spot to the rising video sharing site, YouTube, but now amasses over one billion users logging on every day. Who would have thought a Mark Zuckerberg, nineteen-year-old college student, would be able to create the company that it…

Before taking Scientology’s personality tests in Sydney and Brisbane, I knew the experience might be confronting. Nonetheless, my expectations were about to be exceeded. Stepping inside Sydney’s Castlereagh Street headquarters, I was struck by images of erupting volcanoes, Egyptian-looking Scientology symbols, and Star-Trek-style video pods. It feels like a blend of a holistic healing centre and the control-deck of the Starship Enterprise. Soon, I’m looking down at Scientology’s Oxford…

The Vietnam War was a complete failure that caused the many deaths of young adults. Young men ages 18 and older were being drafted to go to the war; they had no option, which increased anxiety, stress. Many didn’t know how to cope with this; they just got out of high school, they didn’t know what to do in a harsh situation such as this. That’s why many veterans had PTSD forty years after the war. Fifty-eight thousand Americans were killed in the Vietnam War, but twice as much died after the war…

Amazon is perhaps one of the most influential companies in the world of technology. Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer outside of China. This did not happen overnight. Their success was the product of years of hard work and innovation. One of the fields that they took the most advantage of was Information Technology. Without the advantages of Information Technology, Amazon would not be nearly as successful as they are today. There are many technological tools that Amazon uses to gain…

for different purposes such as retaliation, sabotage, data theft, and damage to brand image and reputation. The APT is likely to install additional tools in order to gain access to servers that could contain users’ credentials. This could be an Active Directory Server from Microsoft or a LDAP Database. The APT’s goal is to collect credentials to gain an elevated access level to the network. At this point of the attack, customized tools and firmware will be installed on all accessible…

1.10 FIREWELL: Firewall is a physical security device that cleaned in specs traffic coming from one network to a different network. A firewall is a system that implements an access control policy among two networks. Example: “Allows: http, mails etc. Keeps out: intruders, denial of services attacks etc.” 1.10.1 Firewall work: The protocol that computers use to be in touch on the internet is called TCP/IP. Each computer on the Internet has a only one of its kind internet protocol and…

Along with Facebook, Twitter is an extremely popular social media website, and ranks second in popularity among users. Founded in 2006, Twitter is a fast-paced mini blog where posts are limited to 140 characters. With more than 320 million active monthly users, the health care industry has embraced Twitter(5). Twitter provides instant updates on current events as they happen. A recent study(5) examined posts made by orthodontic patients on Twitter in order to assess perceptions of…

In an article published in May of 1897, The Roanoke Times described the intimate relationship shared between two college women as a “smash” or “crush.” The article depicted these “smashes” as completely typical and mentioned nothing deviant about the relationships, even characterizing them as, “one girl, generally an underclassman, and usually a freshman, that becomes much attached to another girl, ordinarily an upper-class girl. The young girl is ‘crushed’ and the other, sends her flowers and…

gateways. Similarly, the IPS systems are either host-based or network-based. Host-based IPS is used to protect against the modification of system resources, exploits related to privilege-escalation and buffer-overflow, e-mail contact list access, and directory lookup. On the other hand, the network-based IPS is used for identifying malicious network packets, and assists in pattern and stateful matching, and protocol, traffic, and statistical anomaly prevention (Stallings, & Brown,…

Immigration is becoming a wildly popular topic among Americans, deciding whether is should be allowed or not. The court has tried to deal with the case many times, never coming to a close. People have brought up the topics of the economy, employment, military benefits, equality and more. The legislative section of congress had a debate over the immigration reform. A focal point was to decide whether or not they should create a better path to legal status for the 11 million unauthorized…