Section 3
1. Malware in my words is the attempt by an assailant to gain access to a PC through known vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities sometimes are noticed by the user and many times are not noticed until the situation is completed by the assailant. The ability of spyware gives the assailant access to user delicate communication, whereabouts, phone details such as who was called and when all without the user even knowing that items have been divulged. I believe that the one that will have the most impact is the malware due to the fact the assailants are moving over to the smartphone arena. Users are using their smartphones for so much of the day to day business operation that if an assailant is able to plant malware on a smartphone and use that smart phone to gather information about the company the user works for it can have a
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Often a user will not pay attention to the fact that the wireless network he or she has connected to is a secure or unsecure connection. The ability of an assailant to plant malware on the smartphone while it is on an unsecure network is a growing concern due to the fact that even though the user at that moment is not conducting any company business information at a later time can be stolen due to the fact malware is on the smartphone. The malware could even open the company network open to assaults due to the ability of the assailant to at a later time connect through the malware and the smartphone. The ability of an assailant to place malware on the phone and then access a network of a company is a dangerous place and the smartphone needs to have protection to stop the placement of malware on it as it is a very mobile device that can go many places a PC or laptop is not able to go. An assailant is able to any open unprotected connection that is available so when a connection is not being used it should be turned to the off position so that an assailant is not able to connect to the device and then to
I have to pull two alleles (two straws) from the bag to represent one fish because fishes like humans get two alleles one from their father and one from their mother.
Overview dashboards for all report sets. For navigation consistency, it is required that a chart from each report set to be displayed on this dashboard
A form factor is the configuration of the actual computer hardware object. The size of the configuration is also taken into consideration typically. When discussed in the context of software, computer techs tend to remark that the form factor is the amount of memory associated with the program where it needs to run effectively (White & Downs, 2007). Technicians assert that form factors assist in preventing incompatibilities between specific hardware that operates within a computer. In other words, a Dell form factor will not work with an HP form factor.
date with the latest software and security patches. Reputable antivirus programs such as Norton Security, McAfee Antivirus, and Bitdefender Antivirus and firewall programs should be installed and kept up to date for maximum protection.
IP – The Internet Protocol (IP) - is the method or protocol by which data is sent from one computer to another on the Internet. Each computer (known as a host) on the Internet has at least one IP address that uniquely identifies it from all other computers on the Internet.
Describe what you did, what you learned, your weekly activities, in what ways are you able to apply the ideas and concepts gained, and finally, describe one important thing that you are thinking about in relation to the activity.
There are many key factors to understanding prevention such as identifying the disease, monitoring the prevalence of a disease, and developing new drug's or vaccine's for that disease. In unit 3, we learn about primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention as the new healthcare model. "Primary prevention means averting the occurrence of the disease" (Williams & Torrens, 2008, pp. 143). The primary prevention is meant to be the first line of defense against any disease. They want to eradicate the disease before it even appears in primary prevention. "Secondary prevention is a means to halt the progression of the disease before it becomes serve" (Williams & Torrens, 2008, pp. 143). In secondary prevention, the disease has
This proposal is for a small office that will have users who are connected by Wi-Fi or cable. The network will include devices and resources that is shared among all the users. The network will need to have security measures in place to protect the entire network and keep the wireless access secure and available only to employees of the company.
With the increasingly ubiquitous nature of mobile devices and online availability, including smartphones and tablets, there is also an understandable concern about the level of security that is afforded to such devices. This can be considered as increasingly important given the proliferation of policies such as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) which are being used by diverse organizations as a way of lowering the cost of ownership for such devices while also leveraging the flexibility advantages that their utilization can bring. It is therefore an area of immense interest due to the changing and emerging nature of both the technology itself as well as the security concerns. Due to the sensitive and confidential information that would exist on such devices, it is imperative that security solutions and processes are implemented in order to protect and secure such content from the proliferation of threats and vulnerabilities which can affect mobile devices (Juniper Networks, n.d.). Mobile devices are being exposed to a record number of security threats, with potentially alarming statistics indicating a 400 percent increase in Android malware, for example, while Wi-Fi connections are also being increasingly targeted.
We Chose Mobile Security Risk because we thought it was a really nice area to expand our knowledge in and also expand the knowledge of the person who is or might be read this. This subject was chosen by all of us and decided to start the research straight away to know each other’s knowledge about the Security Risks of Mobile Phones. Another factor which made us choose this was that we all had mobile phones, which we use every day so we that it will pretty easy to find the information but to decipher that information will be hard because there are so many sources to get the information from.
Introduction: This is a 21th century, technology is the most important and improved thing of the human life. It makes life easier and faster. Development of faster sophisticated technology we have better and fast life. So all we are connect each other by computer network. There are two different way of network: Wired and wireless. Now day we can found network almost everywhere. Home, business, public place, Airport, Planes, hospitals, school, train everywhere we can found networking. Therefore, almost every sector of the economy that has affected by wired and wireless technology. Wired network and wireless protect both has security, But in general wireless network is less secure than wired networks. For proper security AP (access point) and its antenna should be right position. Also add a wireless access point or use a wireless router we can connect to network wirelessly. AS we using more and more of devices (smart phones, tablet and computers) rely on wireless networking, we have to improve our network security too.
Properly secure wireless systems: - To prevent data breaches it is very important to secure wireless networks. WI- Fi network security is necessary because it is very easy to hack the data and unauthorized access. Breaches can be prevented by using strong passwords, encryption methods, and strong verification.
As the name suggests, spyware operates like a spy. It can be defined as any software was made to spy and steal private information from people or organizations without their knowledge and consent. There are several ways through which the software can get into a person’s computer. Most importantly, however, the malware get into a computer as a virus. Alternatively, it may get there as a consequence of installing infected software (Aycock 8).
In today’s days malware is designated as a software which aims to disturb a computer with the consent or permission of the owner. This term “Malware” is used by computer professionals to describe a varied forms of destructive, annoying and intrusive software code. This word “Malware” is used to indicate all types of malware which include a true set of viruses.
mobile phone viruses began to emerge, the first mobile phone virus was called Caribe, it was created to infect the Symbian mobile OS. By using the Bluetooth communication feature it was able to spread from phone to phone and upon activation of the device it would display the message "Caribe". In 2009 the first iPhone worm "Ikee" was created it was able to infect and spread among jailbroken iPhones that had installed SSH while using the default root password. This worm changes the wallpaper of your lock screen to a photo of Rick Astley with the message: "ikee is never going to give you up.” As of 2011, it 's reported that as much as 73,000 malware strains are written every day. Considering that mobile smart phones have slowly been replacing our PC’s daily to do task, we are more at risk now that these malwares are being increasingly written for mobile phones. Just look at history and what occurred with PCs: It may have started as a practical joke, but soon after users started putting more increasingly personal information it slowly turned from a joke into a more malicious purpose. History always repeats itself and it will be no different with smartphones and with this growing issue we need to be ready to increase our mobile security.