Hijacking

This paper is about the five crime families of New York City which are Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and the Lucchese families. These families were from the Italian American Mafia also known as La Cosa Nostra and the first to be involved in organized crime. Salvatore Maranzano was the person that began the families in 1931. “The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime. The Genovese family took advantage of lax due diligence by…

Americans have laid cheek and jowl with terrorism for many years, especially since the events of September 11, 2001. While terrorism is usually concerned with bombings, kidnappings or hijackings, some forms of terrorism are much more costly regarding monetary expense. It is estimated that cyber terrorism costs the consumers at least 100 billion dollars a year, although that is only a rough estimate. Company costs for cybercrime can come from the following areas: loss of intellectual property or…

Some organizations still use outdated machines because they cannot afford to upgrade. It is not in their budget, so Microsoft systems that run 2003??? May still be infected with the Conficker virus. Conficker affected Windows 2000 Service Pack (SP) 4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 systems. It then patched the “hole” at Port 445 to inhibit other malware from exploiting the system’s vulnerability (Krepinevich, 2012).…

Comparison of “The Most Dangerous Game” and the “Young Goodman Brown” This essay will compare two short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Works do not have similarities at the first sight. Stories are about a century apart (were published in 1835 and 1924 respectively), have different plots, types of characters and conclusions. However, it is possible to make a comparison and find both similarities and differences in these stories.…

shortcomings for years. When MySQL and other relational databases tend to use some form of authorization, MongoDB databases are exposed to the Internet and do not require credentials immediately by default. In the face of these waves of attacks aimed at hijacking MongoDB instances, Andreas Nilsson, Director of Product Security at MongoDB has published a post in which he explains to administrators how to avoid this type of attack. "These attacks can be avoided thanks to the numerous security…

Americans have a well-established tradition of imposing themselves onto other, less powerful peoples. The United States government has perfectly exemplified this when it comes to their treatment of Native Americans. Since their arrival in the fifteenth century, Europeans have exterminated Indian tribes, relocated them, and attacked their cultures. These strategies compounded and advanced well into the modern era, coming into fruition in the American government’s policies of termination in the…

strongly influences our modern generations. With the rise of technology, Tristian Harris refers to technology becoming so advanced by the day it potentially controls our minds in the way we think about certain things (Harris). It’s considered to be a hijacking mindset in fearing of missing something important such as a specific deadline, emails, and even a text message. Many individuals are constantly thinking about daily news, new incoming messages, and being entertained my…

The documentary Bus 174 explores how Brazilian society’s treatment of their homeless youth and the lack of a well-trained police force led to the hijacking/ hostage incident of the titular bus. The perpetrator, Sandro Rosa Nascimento, was revealed to be one of the many youths who grew up on the streets of Brazil. Life as a street child was rough, with the lack of aid and the surplus of prejudice against them. It certainly did not help that the police were brutal towards all street kids –…

Foreign Intelligence causes the United States of America to understand what the other countries are doing. Whether they are enemy countries or countries that help us with all of our resources and are friendly countries. The United States gains intelligence for our army so that we know where the enemies are in that area and where all of the bad things are going on. The United States of America also need to gain intelligence on other countries for good reasons such as, knowing where to buy and…

4 American Airlines flights, 11,147, 77, and 93, and flew the planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and one was targeted for the White House, but crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. In total, the hijackings killed approximately 3,000 citizens and injured over 6,000. The attacks were very impactful and resonates with everyone in America to this day as one of the most horrific days in America 's history. No terrorist attack had ever been nearly as…