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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…

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 breach security. By the time you recognize the attack, damage is already done, leaving you with nothing but an infected system. To prevent potential data injury, you need to be quick and proactive. Here are few steps that can help offset the deadly…

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…

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.…

has shaped many parts of our lifestyle’s from movement from one point to another (GPS), all the way to maintaining all of our hard earned funds on a piece of plastic. The question at hand is how this is all protected and who enforces it? Network security has proven beneficial in many cases in today’s society. It continuously monitors the companies system ensuring that unauthorized access isn’t permitted, or as we like to believe keeping our information from falling into the wrong hands. Although…

our society? That is what I wanted to find out in my second Media Search. Having already researched current technology like license plate readers, I wanted to look at the new and developing uses of digital technology. Using government sources and national surveys, I began to get a better…

Drones have been one of the most ultimate advances in technology within the past few years. Although they’re magnificent at their jobs, they lack significantly at insulating humans' privacy and controlling air traffic. Firstly, drones are privacy pirates. According to Redcode, “while currently there a re laws to protect individuals against people stalking or spying on them in their homes, there are no federal laws in place that would protect individuals from being spied on specifically by a…

He only stayed for three months, however. During these three months, Snowden illegally downloaded top-secret files concerning American programs of national and international surveillance. Snowden uncovered that the US had almost 100 surveillance team locations around the world (Szoldra), that the American government bugged the offices of the EU (Szoldra), that the US regularly spies on countries such…

Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone. When Edward Snowden found out that there was an unacceptable violation of privacy being committed by the NSA, he did what he found to be the right thing which was to give awareness to the public about this issue. Snowden discovered that the NSA was conducting surveillance of hundreds of millions of Americans’ electronic communications, including phone calls, text messages and emails. He was able to get access to…