Hashing

platters b. Wiping the entire hard drive c. Placing magnets on a hard drive d. Simply formatting a hard drive 2. __________________________ is a list of people who have had physical possession of the evidence. Chain of custody 3. What is a hashing algorithm? A utility designed to create a binary or hexadecimal number that represents the uniqueness of a data set, such as a file or entire disk. 4. In a criminal investigation, probable cause is needed for a criminal investigation. a. True…

Introduction I am the information security specialist for a company that develops software X. Software X is the leading operating system in mobile devices. Unfortunately, our company believes Mr. McBride, a former employee stole product X source code for financial gain. As such, I have been tasked with leading the forensic investigation in this matter. Analysis Interview During an investigation is imperative that potential witnesses are questioned to gather essential information needed in the…

This is because many software purveyors offer file-hashes to help with the identification of modified software, which may contain malicious Trojan horse-like code. File hashing referrers to the act of using message digests and algorithms to generate hash codes that help validate that a downloaded file, or a file on a computer system, to ensure it has not been corrupted, or influenced, in any other way than originally intended…

Some people measure time in days. I measure it in electrons. Another day passes. Commerce starts and halts. People rise and sleep. I add another electron to my hypothetical journey across the periodic table. And on the joyous occasion I land on a group 1A element, I wear a periodic table t-shirt. Why? Because those guys only have one valence electron, so donating one electron realizes their dream of having only full electron shells, of being energetically happy. Being generous is how I become…

Gender Matters Tillie Olsen 's “I Stand Here Ironing” reflects the characterize prejudice and ethnic perspective of women during the Great Depression the setting of this story reflects that era. The 1930’s was particularly hard on single, divorced , single mothers and minorities “ I was nineteen. It was the pre‐relief, pre‐WPA world of the depression. I would start running as soon as I got off the streetcar, running up the stairs, the place smelling sour, and awake or asleep to startle awake…

Employees are an important asset of any organization. In today’s digital world, employees must be educated on the important of security and how they can protect their organization’s information systems data. To do this, user access and identity must be managed properly to control the risks associated with confidential information and user data falling into the wrong hands. One way to manage user access is by using passwords to establish a user 's identity to gain access. History of Passwords…

repository or central database and trusted third party Central authority(CA) are used to revoke, issue and store the keys. There is always a risk that these centralized infrastructure can be violated. Hence, Blochcain can be use to to reduce the risks of storing PKI on centralized infrastructure. Here the Data(Keys) will be distributed across the blochchain network[3] In the 2nd section we will go through the introduction of blockchain, In the 3rd Section, we will see how blockchain protects…

Risk Assessment: Pinellas County Schools Evelyn Davis November 22, 2015 University of Maryland University College EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Pinellas County Schools is the seventh-largest in the state of Florida. The creation of Pinellas County Schools came to be after a split in 1912 from Hillsborough County. Pinellas County serves 150 schools including magnets schools, career academies, adult education centers and a virtual school program. Pinellas County Schools with the help of 7000…

who lose their privacy. And as this data is kept by companies like KPN you are in luck if you never live through such a hack. In the sources you can see a KPN tweet where they basically triumphantly say they store passwords in plain text opposed to hashing…

The Haswell microarchitecture improvises the Ivy-bridge in the following ways: • New socket LGA1150 for desktop processors • New AVX2 Instruction set • New TSX Instruction set • New bit manipulation instructions • New dispatch ports INSTRUCTION SET: The AVX instruction set limited the integer operations to use only 128-bit registers whereas the floating point operations used 256-bit registers. In addition, AVX2 implements three operand FMA instructions. New 15 bit manipulation instructions were…