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I read chapter 7: Phony Sites and Dangerous Attachments in The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon. This chapter was about unsafe sites you may visit and unsafe attachments you may receive in an email. An attacker will do whatever is necessary to break into a network. Computer viruses can do a lot of damage to your computer. Many people have created a software to prevent a virus from harming computers. Everyone gets emails from stores you have shopped at. Some of these…

Illustrate the differences between digital forensics and network forensics. Digital forensic:  Digital forensic is a branch of forensic science and it talks about the recovery and investigation report found in the digital devices.  Digital forensics is about the "preservation, identification, extraction, documentation and interpretation of computer data"  In order to accomplish these goals, there are well-defined procedures, also derived from law enforcement, for acquiring and analyzing the…

Where Companies have gone wrong in the past. Unfortunately being PCI DSS compliant does not always guarantee that your data is secure. There are numerous cases in which data security breaches have had companies in the headlines for reason they wish they weren’t. During this case study report we will discuss two such breaches in detail and outline where the companies went wrong. The first company is Heartland Payment Systems (HPS), this company hit the headlines in January of 2009 when they…

In an era where some of the biggest damage is done by simple keystrokes, cyber security is an essential part of any organization, whether big or small. The purpose of this report was to gather information regarding The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Through proper use of research, network scanning, and social engineering the team was able to obtain valuable information regarding the infrastructure, policy, intellectual properties and the security of the…

Businesses are having a difficult time controlling social media use in the workplace because policies only state that employees must not use it, but do not explain why. Businesses should explain the polices in detail to employees and the reasons for such polices. They should also include the consequences of using social media while at work. There are three main reasons for social media polices in the workplace. First and foremost, workers who go online, while they are on the clock, are…

Review of Literature This literary review of Istation will define the program, discuss the history of the program, as well as discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the program. Definitions Istation (also known as Imagination Station) is a digital learning program, which uses interactive games to assess, remediated, and enrich the learning of students all over the country. Istation offers programs for reading and writing, Spainsh, and math. Each month students using the…

windows? If so, you will readily identify with all the problems that face a PC user - new devices have to be configured, drivers need to be updated, you get visits from the dreaded Blue Screen of Death every so often, you have to install anti-virus, firewalls, and a myriad other packages just to keep your PC running and stable. PC users spend most of their time troubleshooting and tweaking their PCs to improve performance and maintain them. But life is not like that with a Mac. As Mac users are…

the customer’s buying habits, as many shopping organisations do this to track their customers buying habits, but they need to protect their customer’s data and their privacy, and Carmel and Debbie can do this by using passwords, encryptions and firewalls to protect their customer’s data. (Information security controls,…

Introduction My current employer, is in the aviation industry for whom telecommunication plays an extremely critical role. For the past 10 years, they had outdated technology managed by minimal staff. This affected communication but increased costs in keeping the present technology alive. Also, since the airport is constantly seeing changes and expanding, it gets difficult to manage with the communication resources we currently have and makes it impossible to add more users to the existing…

Survey Landing Page State of Security Survey Gigamon wants to hear from you. Gigamon is changing how networks become more resilient, responsive, and secure. We invite you to participate in a short 5- question survey so that we can better serve the market. For your feedback, we will send you a $10 Amazon gift card. 1. Cybersecurity is top priority for many organizations. What would you say are your priorities surrounding security in the near future and as we head into 2019? Please check all…