INTRODUCTION This topic is about password reuse and password sharing whereby password reuse is a practice that might be dangerous to any organisation’s security if exercised continuously by employees. This is a process of using the same password for a long time after it was reset or expired. And password sharing can be the process of employees giving each other’s password to use if for example one employee is not at work he or she can ask the other one to give his or her password so that one can perform
authentication systems, graphical passwords are the most preferable type of authentication mechanism , where users click on images for the authentication purpose. The main goal of an authentication system is to help users for selecting the better password. If the password is created by the user , then it is easy to guess by an attacker and if the passwords is assigned by the system, then it is difficult for the user to memorize. So modern researches conclude that graphical passwords are most preferable authentication
Christian Computer Applications II 8 April 2015 Computer Security How can your password be stolen? And how do you stop someone from stealing your password? Are there levels of computer security? And if there are what are they? All of these questions will be answered and maybe even more. How can your password be stolen? There are many ways your password can be stolen. For example, you might be putting in your password and someone looks over your shoulder. But that is only one of many ways. In the
Introduction The seminar was on a very interesting evaluation done on the strength of password meters. Almost all of us are exposed to password-strength meters in our everyday life. The general representation of password meter is a colored bar which when seen as a short red bar indicates a weak password and a long green bar indicates a strong password. The real purpose of a password meter is to show the path for better security to its users. However the strengths and weaknesses of these widely deployed
Passwords This lab was to discuss the vulnerability of weak passwords. We were thought how to crack our own passwords using a method called “john the ripper”. We also found out how secure various passwords and how long it would take for a desktop Pc to crack these passwords. We looked up various methods and applications to crack passwords. Report Part One: Explain & Preventions Dictionary Attack = A technique used to try and find the user’s password by trying hundreds of different possibilities
Social engineering, the ultimate way to hack password or get the things you want. How most people get into accounts like G-Mail, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, or other online accounts. Most people think that hacking a password you need to be computer savvy. This is not the case, those people are crackers. They use custom code or programs to break the passwords. The best way is to use social engineering, I will explain later in the paper why. Before I go any further into this paper, that this information
methods used today to break into a system are network spoofing, password cracking and taking advantage of any security weaknesses or vulnerability in the system. There ultimate goal is often achieved through denial of service attack. Password cracking is a sneaky method used by hackers to gain unauthorized access to system through someone’s account. According to www.msdn.microsoft.com network systems are at high risk when the password selected is weak; they are easy to guess by hackers such as date
site. U3: User checks their email site for the email that the system sent and gets the confirmation link. The user selects this confirmation link. S3: System accepts the confirmation link and requests the user to log in using their email and password. Post Condition: User is a member of the website. Managing an account profile, including contact information: Description: A registered user edits his profile data. References Morrison, R. (2007, Fall). Commentary: Multi-Factor identification
Facebook Password Is Fair Game”, Alfred Edmond Jr, states that he does believe employers should be able to ask an applicant for their Facebook password. On the MSNBC show, “Your Business” Edmond stated that if he were to look at it from a business owner’s perspective, an employer has every right to ask for an employees’ password. Whether or not an employee chooses to grant access, an employer should at least be able to ask the question. I agree with the fact that asking for a Facebook password is perfectly
for implementing SAML protocol is imperative. In addition, with the proliferation of SaaS (Software as a Service), and other web based applications, identity management has become challenging for various enterprises. Handling so many usernames and passwords for your intranet, cloud, webmail, HR system, and other resources is nothing but bothersome especially when your workforce is huge. This is where SAML is desperately needed. Many hosted services providers support SAML for authentication including
few selected, were chosen given that the nature of the business is an online magazine additionally they were chosen because a good designer should be able to derived the others. It also stated that the user will be required to choose a username and password so access control was mandatory. Confidentiality Confidentiality is essential to the online magazine because the same amount of consideration given towards the magazine must be given to the customer. From the customer’s point of view you do not
building campus. All five buildings, inside and outside will be tested. The perimeter of the campus will also be tested to make sure that no internet service is outside the campus. In order to complete the audit a list of all users, databases, and passwords will be needed. Access to the grounds to observe who has access to what will also be crucial. Going in and out of buildings into rooms will help identify which rooms have computers and who has access to them. Access to servers and the central
In this paper, I will discuss various methods that those who want this access use and ways they can be prevented. Many people feel that because they use passwords their files are secure and can’t be hacked. They unknowingly leave their networks open to attack without protection thinking everything is fine. Hackers can easily get into password protected files once they have access to a computer system. One way to prevent this is to use a firewall. A firewall prevents unauthorized users from gaining
current design that provides multiple sites for company employees. Currently, employees wishing to access company related information are required to access approximately eight different websites and maintain records for different user names and passwords for each site. This paper will outline the design specifics that will be necessary for full integration and user functionality of the new web-based portal. One of the initial design considerations when looking at this project was the overall network
Abstract—Hospital management, maintaining patient’s as well as hospital related data is quite crucial job. Information management system is the very promising solution to it. In this paper we have discuss the “HOPE” which is a web based hospital management system. It provides to manage the hospital information. Along with that it offers various functionalities like taking appointment of doctor online, tracing appointment status, sending reports via mail, video conferencing with doctor, generating
weakly chosen passwords continue to be a major source of security problems and it is vulnerable to dictionary attacks. In this method BApasswd a new proactive password checker is projected and this component is used for password varying program that attempts to validate the eminence of a password chosen by the user, before the selection is finalized. When the user had given a password, this system will use statistical test to determine it with a high degree of confidence, whether the password could have
Concepts, Principles and Practice– 3rd edition. Chapter 9 Pages 255”. The steps of access control process are: a) Identification to unique user ID. It can be a combination of first and last name. b) Authentication which contains known by user (like password, PIN, Phrase and pass code), accessories own by user (like Keypads, smart cards and tokens) and something personally related to the user’s body (Biometric systems including voice recognition, fingerprinting and retinal scanners). c) Accounting
the Internet has ever seen. For more than two years now the heartbleed bug has exposed anyone with a Yahoo, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Pinterest account. Even Obama’s health care website healthcare.gov has urged its enrollees to change their passwords due to the heartbleed. The heartbleed bug is a hole in the software that is designed to turn your personal information into random strings of numbers and letters.This allows hackers to take advantage of the computer use to see if you are still
usernames and passwords repeatedly until one is correct and access is granted to the intruder. A brute force attack starts with the letter “a” and works its way up eventually finding out weak passwords like “password”, “1qaz2wsx” or “123456789”. Brute force attack does not exclude anyone from any organization. Brute force attack is dependent of computer processing speed and the time it has to find the right password combination. Often times, users create weak usernames and passwords which makes brute
MN502 NETWORK SECURITY (lab 1) 1. What are the different types of password attacks? Types of password attacks: Brute force attack: It is an attack, the attacker continuously trying too many passwords hoping that it was correct. Dictionary attack: It is an attack, the attacker cracking the password by millions of words in a dictionary Social engineering: It is a type of attack for gathering information using social network. Guessing: It is an attack by our best friends, …… and these attacks on