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
Kevin David Mitnick was born in Los Angeles on august 6, 1963 and he attended James Monroe high school in L.A. He was a hacker, phreaker and social engineer, who was the world’s most wanted computer criminal in 90’s, He was charged for many criminal activities forfraud and computer hacking into many top companies and stealing their confidential data. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested Kevin Mitnick on February 15, 1995. He spent nearly five years in a federal prison for the charges. He
For a smaller setup – say an office or a home, a AAA radius server is not deployed in the infrastructure. The secret key in this case is usually stored on an access point. In such environment setup, the authentication takes place between the station and the access point. To secure the network setup, WPA2 can be used along with the optional Pre-Shared Key (PSK) for authentication. To encrypt the network with WPA2-PSK, the router is configured not with an encryption key but rather plain paraphrase
(Senderek, 2003). 2.2.4 Passphrase Based Symmetric Keys Passphrase is very similar to password, except that it is a longer version of a password, and theoretically is a more secure compared to password (Network Associates, Inc., 1999). It is a secure code created with one or few small word chosen by the user for a security setting (Mitchell, n.d.). Normally, for a passphrase, it contains multiple words, where words can be or cannot be found in a dictionary. Good passphrase are similar as good passwords
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
This paper is going to discuss wireless security from a broad view where I will go into why exactly wireless security is so important especially today as the ways in which we are communicating is changing dramatically. From there I will discuss the multiple wireless securities that are available to give a better understanding of the options given. Then I will go into why exactly not protecting your wireless can be so dangerous with some descriptions on the most dangerous wireless attacks out there
In Today’s world, with the increasing popularity of several types of internet and communication technologies more information is transmitted over the network, due to which the security of the content being transmitted becomes one of the important issue which should be taken into consideration. The content being transmitted may be digital data, images, text, etc. So to prevent this digital data to be interfered and forged by unauthorized parties is one of the most critical demands in computer’ era
design also allows the office to add more users or devices easily with little impact to the network design. Security for the network will be provided by a network based packet filtering firewall, proxy server and a Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) passphrase. I would also suggest not broadcasting the Service Set Identifier (SSID) and to set up the router to filter the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses so that devices that have their MAC addresses registered will be allowed access to the wireless
temptations to respond to a text or call. Even though the phone may be on silent, you will still be able to see the phone light up when someone calls or texts you. Another solution to prevent distracted driving would be to lock the drivers phone with a passphrase that's a reminder not to text or call when behind the wheel, but unfortunately this solution is also easy to get around by simply putting in the passcode. The next solution to prevent distracted driving would be to put the device in the trunk of
acquire any information, regardless of the possibility that no personal gain was involved. People additionally can't change, duplicate, erase, or move any program. The Computer Misuse Act likewise stops any endeavors to acquire another person's passphrase. Clearly, if somebody gives someone else his recognizable proof and he may legitimately utilize the PC, these laws under unapproved access don't make a difference. 2. Unauthorized access to computer systems with the intent to commit another
“That’s impressive, boss, “ I said. “What about Lone Wolf?” “Hopefully Reade will help us with that problem, “ Darrow chuckled. “But if he doesn’t work with us, we’ll bring in some of our more persuasive agents.” “Sounds like a plan, “ I said. “Go get ‘em, tiger!” Darrow said, and took another sip of coffee. I stood up, put on my coat, and exited the office. I had a long afternoon ahead of me. *** I stepped outside into the pouring rain, turning up the collar of my coat against the wind. After
Internal Threats to Network Security The topic of network security is a reoccurring theme in today’s business world. There is an almost unfathomable amount of data generated, transmitted, and stored every day. Unfortunately the media and traditional reporting sources these days typically only focus on outside threats such as hackers. Many people completely overlook the insider threats that are present and can potentially pose and even bigger threat then any outside source. One of the acronyms
Introduction What is computer security? In our digital world computers a stuff of can’t be replaced. Computers in addition to assist we keep our important data in computers and also can assist we constant innovation. However, there are many criminals while utilize it for make criminal cases. Such as, theft other people bank account so that theft other people money on their bank account and utilize network for deceit other people’s private information. Therefore, we need computer security for prevent
Privacy and Security are very important aspects in regards to computer databases and keeping them safe. Data Privacy is a way to keep your information secure, and keeping your information secure means it’s going to be kept private (vice versa). Information and data privacy is the relationship between gathering and classifying data and technologies while at the same time keeping them private in the context of the organization. While Computer security and IT security are defined as the means of security
This paper is going to discuss wireless security from a broad view where I will go into why exactly wireless security is so important, especially today as the ways in which we are communicating is changing dramatically. From there I will discuss the multiple wireless securities that are available to give a better understanding of the options given. Then I will go into why exactly not protecting your wireless can be so dangerous with some descriptions of the most dangerous wireless attacks out there