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The 802.11 is the standard protocol for wireless networks, which includes WEP (wired equivalent privacy). The standards committee for 802.11 left many of the difficult security issues such as key management and a robust authentication mechanism as open problems. The standards they have established have many flaws that have led to a number of practical attacks. With the increase number of wireless technology there is an increase in the range of places people can perform their business. As a…

obtained can be used to threaten, humiliate or blackmail the user. Gaining personal information can be done by, for example, phishing (Kopecký, 2015). Phishing is a way to try and get private information from unsuspected individuals. Frauds try to get passwords of email accounts and bank information. With the use of fake websites or other smart tricks. With the information obtained the frauds can steal your money or identity (phishing, 2016) Additionally, a website that tracks the location of…

Vulnerabilities storing a user’s login name and password in a cookie on the user’s machine are: Cookie Poisoning: cookies supposed to send back to server unchanged, but the attacker can have changed the value and sent different information to the server. Integrity and confidentiality: Most of website only stores the random and generated unique identifies in cookie, and other are stored on the server. Help to eliminates the threat of cookie poisoning. Cookie Cookie Inaccuracies: Carrying…

Information security policy is to protect the data and assets. We can apply policies to the users. What to access and what not to access. These security policies can protect the networks, computers, applications of the company. Confidentiality: Only the authorized people can access the data, no other persons cannot access the data or accounts. Integrity: only the authorized person can change the data, no other people cannot access it. Availability: The data should be available to the authorized…

eliminate a just expectation of privacy, but privacy claims of the employee should be able to over throw any policy a company holds. Palm continues to argue that employees may have a instictive expectation of privacy on the use of items such as, passwords, personal information, etc; but, some…

I found an article on identity theft that ruined a man’s life. David Crouse was a victim of identity theft. Like many people today, he frequently shopped and did his banking online (Waters, 2010). It is believed to be a keystroke malware that infected his computer while he visited online sites (Waters, 2010). Someone had hacked into one of the sites he frequently visited and his computer got infected (Waters, 2010). The criminals were able to pick up all his personal information by…

Penetration testing methodology is a document guide for pen-testers on how to successfully complete the Pen-testing process. There are wide range of methodologies and frameworks available. Each has unique characteristics and takes a distinct approach to penetration testing. All factors considered, it is important to apply a methodology that is suitable for each enterprise and institute to achieve the maximum efficiency. The following table includes comparison between two methodologies- Open…

security of an individual’s personal information which causes a decrease in their intrinsic value. Which means this will touch on the moral side of principles, their behavior is the problem in all these cases, leaving unattended passwords, rooms unlocked, sharing passwords, verifying a request for confidential records this is what causes fees to our industries within our medical sector and disregards the level of assurance we provide regarding…

port number twenty-three, which runs a service called Telnet, it is used to enable a user to connect to a remote host using a Telnet client. If this port stays open, then hacker just need to access the port and brute-force the user’s username and password then they will have access to your whole machine. Furthermore, I found port number one thousand ninety-nine was open, this service is called Remote Administration Tool and this port could be used by hackers to produce Trojans by performing…

email. The content appears to be genuine and requests users to login. Hackers are able to retrieve user’s credentials by the user’s clicking on the falsify link which direct the user’s to a bogus website and prompts a user to enter their username and password. A security company known as RSA Security LLC believes phishing was the cause of Sony’s hack. A series of phishing messages were delivered to high ranking officials and other personnel requesting user’s to check their Apple IDs. These…