Computer security

In the article, “All It Takes To Buy A Stolen Password On The Internet Is 55 Cents”, it indicates how simple it is to hijack someone’s entire digital identity. There was a report done by Intel Security Group's McAfee Labs which found an online streaming video that provides login credentials that could be bought for only fifty-five cents. The report investigated the world of buying and selling stolen digital information online. Everything from financial data and online services to a person's…

Cultural Factors: The success of ecommerce is contingent by the well adoption of ecommerce, which resulted in the consumers’ preferences and behaviours on e-procurement (Pavlou and Chai, 2002). Consumers’ values that reflected from their behaviours could help business executives to understand the reasons of customers’ choices so that corporates could improve their products more specifically. However, culture factors are principally a combination of values and behaviours with a group of people,…

it easier for students to pay. All the student has to do is scan their finger and it pulls their account up. In businesses they use finger scanners to get to certain things, such as documents in a computer. They even talk about how you can buy a finger scanner for personal documents on your computer for $50. The article then goes on to talk about the current ways that we are using technology in biometrics. These include voice, DNA, facial features, and more.…

Wireless and BYOD Security Plan BYOD/Wireless is a strategy that allows employees and organizations to utilize personally purchased /organization issued devices to perform…

safeguarding online passwords, upgrading security scans to keeps computers protected from viruses. However, personal and sensitive information exists online, and it is vulnerable even when safety measures are in place. This vulnerability led to a compromise of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) database and sensitive information was obtained by unauthorized sources. Living in the information age is exciting and convenient. People can sit at their computers and conduct research…

between two computers back in 1969 has created many new opportunities for people across the globe. Modern day life relies on the usage of the internet, where it improves the lives of people by making it easier to communicate, speed up their work, and share with others. However, with great things comes great consequences. Although the internet helps expand people’s lives and experiences, how are they to protect such precious treasures? Back in 1989 Robert Morris created one of the first computer…

DESPITE HIPPA’S HITECH ACT, CYBERATTACKS CONTINUE TO RISE HIPPA’s HITECH Act and the Omnibus rule were enacted to prevent data breaches in healthcare; however, healthcare data breaches are on the rise. Since its enactment in 1996, several provisions have been incorporated into the original Health Information Profitability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), one of which is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH): In 2009, The U.S. Department of Health and…

A penetration test or “pentesting” is an attack on a computer system, network or Web application without actually harming it and with the owner’s permission in order to identify vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit with the intention of finding security weaknesses and potentially gaining access to its functionality and data. Why Penetration Testing Nine out of 10 businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the past year, marking a 21% increase from 2015, according to a…

existence, the security provided by such a password is not guaranteed. Those with the right resources and knowledge may have the ability to bypass the aforementioned security measures and obtain access to your files. A common method of accomplishing this task is the process of rapidly submitting a variety of possible passwords and seeing which of them is the correct one; an exhaustive but essentially simple sequence known as brute-forcing. Years ago, before the advancement of the computer, one…

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