Information theory

system Relevant Guidelines for Initial Preparation Before starting the investigation, I need to prepare in order to conduct the investigation efficiently. The following steps are needed to take in the preparation stage: • Gathering all available information from the assessing the incident, such as severity of the incident. • Identifying…

Cassandra Clare once wrote,“Lies and secrets... they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” Everyone has a secret, but, it is what a person lets a secret do to them and to others that can be destructive. In Election written by Tom Perrotta, characters in a suburban town live everyday hiding secrets from their peers, elders, and even themselves. These secrets have the potential to corrupt relationships, and morals, and they do so…

Threat Assessment of ‘Important Security Alert From Windows’ Pop-Ups: ‘Important Security Alert From Windows’ Pop-Ups has created havoc among computer users that does not allow them to usually work in the computer. Where this adware has found its own method to attack the targeted system and to make the infected computer almost useless. In order to trouble computer user, it performs several malicious activities to use the security gaps in the system and it leads to freeze the entire running…

This video above focusses on compliance strategies and sheds light on the pros and cons of it for organization to learn. PCI Compliance is basically “The term PCI Compliance is used loosely around the industry to describe an organization's status regarding their requirement to address the control objectives in the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) or other PCI standard.” Nevertheless, whenever an organization is communicating this status with higher managements and business partners, it helps in…

Sloth, Working Hard or Hardly Working As Ronald Regan once said, “I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” I think he was defining the word sloth. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as: disinclination to action or labor: indolence, or the quality or state of being lazy. It is the resistance to work and the unwillingness to act. While the antonym of sloth is drive and industrious, Reagan understood that idleness, laziness, and indolence or in my…

begin stealing information from 40 million debit/credit cards from Target’s systems. *Last known attack from cyber criminals* Date 3: November 30, 2013 (15 days after Date 1) – Target acknowledges publicly that FireEye had been giving more alerts but local teams deemed that no action had to be taken against the alerts so Target did nothing. Date 4: December 13, 2013 (28 days after Date 1) – U.S. Department of Justice notifies Target executives about fraudulent debit/credit information connected…

– Reading for information, research, or information literacy involves reading a variety of material, and having competencies such as being able to analyze, evaluate, and communicate information read into the written expression. The American Library Association defined Information Literacy as: “To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” Information literacy grows…

When it comes to password security, we are faced with a serious conundrum. While we want to remember the password, we still need to practice safe security with a good one. The trouble with the easier to remember passwords is that they are highly insecure. What can you do to combat this problem? When you are using uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers to compensate, you can use what is known as a passpoem to resolve the problem of remembering. As Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin…

original location, create an analysis plan, gather the evidence, and create the evidence reports which must comply with all the laws that affect digital forensics. The increase in connectivity means an increase in the difficulty to gather and secure information to maintain threats to a minimum due to the amount of knowledge that those breaking the law can acquire to attempt to deter the efforts of those trying to piece together the puzzle the wrong doers left behind. Business Intelligence and…

Theft in anyway has always been unethical in any human environment. Employee theft especially can have a huge effect on any business, corporation, establishment, etc. Theft acts as a cost directly incurred by an organization, employees playing the key variable in theft, can steal money, products or time. Theft can occur at any level of a business from the cashier that is still in high school to the CEO of the company. Theft is something a business wants to diminish as much as possible,…