When the entire body of knowledge concerning passwords is evaluated a few things become abundantly clear. First, passwords are going to be around for some time yet. There simply are no present alternatives that are cost competitive with passwords or that users can adopt in a successful manner. While it is certainly a noble effort to explore replacements for passwords, we cannot refuse to acknowledge their continued existence in the foreseeable future.
Second, the current paradigm of rules for password management is outdated and broken. Study after study has revealed that users are not following the rules that security experts have promoted. Decades ago, computer usage was limited and users may have accessed only one or two applications. Enforcement of rules was also more manageable. Users today access dozens, if not
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True, there have been occasions where users have reused passwords across too many applications and it has caused problems. This has led to the perhaps understandable reaction of a strict prohibition on password reuse. However, this is an extreme reaction akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The current state of computing simply requires too much from users if they are not allowed password reuse. Trying to keep dozens of passwords committed to memory is not feasible and means users simply cannot follow the rules. Giving users a set of standards they cannot hope to meet undermines the seriousness of cybersecurity and quickly relegates cybersecurity experts to the role of Chicken Little in the minds of users.
A proper schema for password reuse, though, could change that. Not only would it meet users where they are, but also give them the confidence that security experts understand their limitations and want to make a solution that works for everyone. Instead of having an adversarial atmosphere, an atmosphere of cooperation could be fostered that would benefit
However, I feel users had a different vision/perspective on security mechanisms and they trusted each other during those times and did not have to worry about protecting their information (this is how exactly, one person’s ignorance becomes another’s person’s - hacker, here bliss). This book helps us to understand the vulnerabilities; its impacts and why it is important to address/ fix those holes.
Is it public knowledge that the Secret Service protects most of the important political figures? Is it public knowledge that the Secret Service works many of the secret missions that the army cannot? The Secret Service makes a commendable amount of compensation ("Secret Service Agent Salaries"). The service also has responsibilities among the strongest ("The American Presidency"). The qualifications for the Secret Service include many tests both mentally and physically (Lawi.us). The Secret Service has large compensation, strong responsibilities, and many qualifications. The Secret Service is one of the hardest but well paying jobs.
The NSA is a U.S. intelligence agency responsible for providing the government with information on inner and foreign affairs, particularly for the prevention of terrorism and crime. The NSA maintains several database networks in which they receive private information on American citizens. The agency has access to phone calls, emails, photos, recordings, and backgrounds of practically all people residing in the United States. Started in 1952 by President Harry Truman, the NSA is tasked with the global monitoring and surveillance of targeted individuals in American territory. As part of the growing practice of mass surveillance in the United States, the agency collects and stores all phone records of all American citizens. People argue that this collected information is very intrusive, and the NSA may find something personal that someone may not have wanted anyone to know. While this intrusion's main purpose is to avoid events of terrorism, recent information leaks by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, show that the agency may actually be infringing upon the rights of the American citizen. Whether people like it or not, it seems that the NSA will continue to spy on the people of the United States in an attempt to avert acts of terrorism. Although there are many pros and cons to this surveillance of American citizens, the agency is ultimately just doing its job to protect the lives of the people. Unless a person is actually planning on committing a major crime, there is no real reason for citizens to worry about the NSA and it's invasion of our privacy. The agency is not out to look for embarrassing information about its citizens, rather, only searches for and analyzes information which may lead to the identification of a targe...
We all have heard the quote “Life, Liberty, Land, and the Pursuit to Happiness” and that is the promise of a life here in America. As Americans we pride ourselves on these freedoms that allow us to live everyday. We are one of the only countries that have this promise and it is what draws people from all of over the world to come here. Our founding fathers of the United States of America wrote these words, having no idea the impact that they would have for the rest of this countries history. Those words were the foundation for government, and it wasn’t perfect at first but slowly it matured into what we have today, strong and powerful. To other nations America is seen as the World Power, and a somewhat perfect nation to live in. Unfortunately corruption, scandals and controversies have tainted our once golden glow, and other nations are weary of watching their steps. One of the most controversial elements to our government is the NSA. Hidden in the shadows from American and global knowledge is what the NSA is actually doing and watching out for. Only very recently has the NSA been ripped from the shadows and brought to light what exactly is going on inside those walls. They are “spying” on not only America’s personal data, but foreign leaders as well. The NSA says it’s for the safety for everyone against terrorism and attacks. However, it has gone way to far and violates a constitutional right, privacy. The NSA has overstepped their boundaries, and spying doesn’t seem to make a difference in safety.
In July 2015, many of the world’s high ranking cryptographers published that the loss and destruction induced by adopting a key escrow system 20 years ago would be even more serious, that would be very hard to identify security weaknesses that could be misused by
Do we have a well-defined and documented policy for electronic authentication, authorisation and access control relating to our information systems, applications and data?
Under the US Patriot Act, or Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, I believe citizens have only been put in danger. The Patriot Act was created to keep terrorism at bay and to launch The United States of America forward. However, it has done nothing but set us back. How can we live in a country where everyone is a suspected criminal? I believe that The Patriot Act does not help control terrorism. Instead, it undermines us as loyal citizens and is a way for the government to abuse their power over the citizens. How are we really free as Americans when our government is keeping a very watchful eye on us? Almost too watchful. The government has access to almost everything. As much as I love being an American I don’t think the US Government is perfect. What if the the government makes a mistake? What if they are really accusing the wrong people? It looks as though the government is resorting to old tactics that will be discussed further in this essay. The Patriot Act is a faulty document that puts the lives of Americans at risk. I also believe that the Patriot Act was put together way too quickly after the tragic event the stirred the nation and brought fear to many peoples hearts on September 11th, 2001. We all believed that our nation had fallen to the ground and there was no way of coming back. However, the government drew up The Patriot Act 45 days after the attacks. Congress seemed to have forgotten the constitutional rights that we were given by our founding fathers a long time ago. The Patriot Act goes against numerous constitutional rights that we have. This including our first, fourth, and sixth amendment rights. As one of the founding fathers, Benjamin...
Most of you probably think that getting passwords is a very difficult thing, it is not. Yes, if you want to be able to get into every account the same way this takes skills, probably something that you don't have. I am not calling all of you stupid, most people can't do this. I know that I can't. Being able to get into all account normally takes finding a flaw in the programming. This take knowing what to look for and keeping it a secret when you find it. The moment you make it public or tell someone else, the bug/flaw will be fixed. So if you find a site on the internet telling you to follow the following steps and you can get into any account you want. More than likely it is old and will not work. It will probably make it into that sites logs and if they ever decide to try and prosecute people for trying to hack an account you are in their logs along with a lot of information you did not know that they are gathering.
As we can see now-a-days, there are many replacements to card payments such as MOBILE PAYMENT options like Apple and Samsung Pay. Recently, Apple has launched finger print (TOUCH ID) payment option in its new Mac-book Pro. Almost every application has its own wallet to pay. But still, as we know that technology is any day not secured. It might not be vulnerable today. But, we cannot predict its non-vulnerability because one day or the other, it becomes vulnerable to any type of attack.
Despite investing one of top security system, and spend money to boost up their defense mechanism to meet industry standard, hackers still able to find the holes of the Target system. Target seem to run into a costly mistake in this cases. However, I believe, this mistake could be happened upon anyone, what we learn to prevent it in the future is more important. I believe, as a security standpoint, we have to look at it from multiple angles and not rely on only one defense mechanism. To succeed again the hackers, educating the workforce and assessing the human factors in not only technical but also strategy and risk management must be ensured for companies to guarding against any future attacks.
Whether to arm the police is a contentious subject. While some supporters maintain that unarmed police are unable to protect law-abiding citizens, opponents reject this notion on the grounds that it could lead to a surge of violence in society.
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 meters has rarely been studied and hence this paper really opens up the real world thing going on. The authors of this paper [1] have chosen 11 prominent web service providers such as Google, Yahoo, Apple, FedEx, Skype, Microsoft, Twitter, Drupal, Dropbox, Paypal, ebay. To analyze these checkers the Javascript code has been extracted and analysed first, then relevant parts from the source code are plugged into a dictionary which in itself is an attack algorithm written in javascript and php. Then the behaviour of each meter is recorded when presented with publicly available dictionaries. At the end a close approximation of each meter’s scoring algorithm is made and reviewed.
Hackers have many tools in their “toolbox” for breaking into computers. An example of this is a Password Sniffer. This is a program, which is secretly hidden on a network. The sniffer is programmed to record, in a secret file, logos and passwords. In the span of a week, these tiny, planted programs can record hundreds of user names and code words and their associated passwords. This information is then sent back to the hacker. Last year an advisory from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team warned that, because of a rash of sniffing attacks, tens of thousands of passwords had been stolen and were presumed to be compromised.
Some are being bullied by what they post and what they do behind the screen . “Hackers also know that it is frequently easy to find out the answers to the security questions supposed to protect a password , To reduce the dangers to your data
Many believe that crimes like these require government monitoring to protect the people. Identity theft, or the act of stealing someone's personal information, is not new in any respect. The only thing that has changed is the decreased difficulty in acquiring this information. According to CNBC ""Some 15.4 million consumers were victims of identity theft or fraud last year...in all, thieves stole $16 billion."" Crimes like these, however, are caught rapidly averaging around a week's time. Another important factor to consider is that the passwords that we use are largely unoriginal. I, myself, am guilty of having a single password for many important internet accounts. The reality is that no matter how much the government tries to hunt down cyber identity thieves, they will still exist. What we can do as consumers, like having strong passwords and monitoring our credit, is far greater than anything the government could do for us. (And that's not even mentioning any costs or legal implications the government would have to face if they were to monitor transactions or password