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to infect computer systems with ransomware. As a result of the Shadow Brokers’ breach, one strain of ransomware, WannaCry, spread worldwide in May 2017 hitting several targets that included public utilities and large corporations. It even attacked National Health Service facilities in Great Britain,…

Having a long history, the first drones created by Samuel P. Langley date back to 1849 where steam powered air balloons would take aerial pictures in reconnaissance missions. Today, on a federal level a drone provides the military with unmanned aircraft capabilities, the most commonly known MQ-1 Predator is used to perform missions. For research organizations and recreational use, stores and online businesses have smaller versions of these drones for sale, the most commonly known the quadcopters…

How to fight Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)? Denial of Service attacks can turn your entire organization upside down. It is almost like experiencing a worst, unpredictable disaster. Over the past few years, Denial of Service attacks made to the headlines several times and have always been frustrating the IT professionals. It’s great that each day technology is taking new phases and flourishing its potentiality, but the advancing field is also becoming a growing opportunity for invaders to…

Washington, a former aid to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has turned over security logs from Clinton’s private server to the FBI. Records of these security logs show no signs of foreign hacking. Former aid, Bryan Pagliano, describes how he initially set up the server in her home in New York. As secretary of the state, Clinton’s work related emails have been made public as part of the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. After receiving sporadic emails, somebody clicked on a malicious link…

December 10th, 2015 was the day my life would change completely. That was the day that I joined the petitioning crew to get medical cannabis put on the ballot for the 2016 election in the state of Florida. I was nervous, because Florida had already voted that same issue down not even two years prior. I was not going to allow that to happen again. We traveled all around Florida, staying in hotels, working seven days a week, ten to twelve hour days. The work was difficult and extremely tiresome,…

The President has decided the following: 1) The President has created a new body of personnel which he is calling the "National Security Staff". The President believes that "The establishment of the new National Security Staff, under the direction of the National Security Advisor, will end the artificial divide between White House staff who have been dealing with national security and homeland security issues." (President Obama, 05/26/09) When the staff are all on the same page and not divided…

I am an IT Security Analyst in Enterprise Solutions and Technology’s (EST) Information and Cyber Security Management stream. In this role, I advise internal and external stakeholders about the ATO’s approach to contemporary risk management for corporate security practices and emerging technology My awareness of the ATO’s security posture and risk appetite is supplemented by knowledge I have gained from formal Information Security accreditations and industry conventions. I apply this proficiency…

My favorite baseball player is Rod Carew and I decided to read the book he wrote about himself as a kid and as a ballplayer. In the beginning of the book Rod talks about his life growing up in Panama and how he did not have a lot of money. In the middle of the novel Rod talks about his career for the Minnesota Twins and what it was like to become a professional ballplayer. Towards the end of the book Rod talks about the end of his tenure with the Twins and him joining his new team the California…

Security metrics are required to provide a quantitative and objective basis for security operations such as support for decision making, software quality assurance, and maintenance of reliable security operations. Based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a metric implies a measurement system that is based on quantifiable measures. A measurement method used to determine the unit of a quantity may be a measuring instrument, a reference material, or a measurement system.…

Spying is only old news new to the world. History books let us realize that out of date advancements like the Roman Realm, Egypt, Chine, India, in this manner on used it. On top of that, 1900s organizations like the Previous Soviet Union and Nazi's Germany used spying procedures around the world wars. The central use of spying around then for the most part was for political and military good position. These countries were successful on spying. In any case, in the 21st century perception is used…