CategoryCybersecurity

Moving Target Defense (MTD)

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Organizations continue to struggle with policies and processes to effectively secure their infrastructure to protect their information assets and intellectual property. In recent years, we have seen the increase of cyber-attacks and breaches to the point that they have become common news worldwide. As systems have grown in complexity with increased capacity to store large amounts of data, so to...

Business Continuity Analysis

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This is post 12 of 12 in the series “Digital Forensics” Important Cybercrime Laws Yet More Theft of Information Assets Preparation Phase of a Digital Search Data Hiding and Steganography Confusion over Terminology Presenting Digital Evidence Remote Access Trojans Malicious Code Detection What is the Role of Computer Forensics? Forensics in Business Continuity Planning An analysis of...

An analysis of different data sources used in a forensics investigation

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This is post 11 of 12 in the series “Digital Forensics” Important Cybercrime Laws Yet More Theft of Information Assets Preparation Phase of a Digital Search Data Hiding and Steganography Confusion over Terminology Presenting Digital Evidence Remote Access Trojans Malicious Code Detection What is the Role of Computer Forensics? Forensics in Business Continuity Planning An analysis of...

DNS Rebinding and Intrusion Detection with Contextual Signatures

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This is post 10 of 10 in the series “Intrusion Detection” TCP Congestion Control Installing Wireshark on Mac OS X (Yosemite) What are Rogue Access Points? Two Common Router Security Threats Modern Application Frameworks, Legacy Browsers and Security Implications What are Covert Channels? Mobile Considerations in Network Security Architecture Common Bluetooth Vulnerabilities to be...

Mitigating DoS or Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks

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This is post 9 of 10 in the series “Intrusion Detection” TCP Congestion Control Installing Wireshark on Mac OS X (Yosemite) What are Rogue Access Points? Two Common Router Security Threats Modern Application Frameworks, Legacy Browsers and Security Implications What are Covert Channels? Mobile Considerations in Network Security Architecture Common Bluetooth Vulnerabilities to be Aware...

Operating Systems Security: Protection Measures Analysis

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The Internet has brought us a wealth of conveniences and everyday tools that we could not live without and more importantly a dependency that we cannot break. In the workplace the Internet has become a part of our day to day lives. We rely on instant communication with our co-workers, friends and colleagues as well as access to a multitude of information at our fingertips. Children from younger...

Hacktivism, Anonymous, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics

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In recent years news stories have highlighted the increasing rate of cybercriminal activity targeting both private organizations and government entities. Cases from mischievous amateur hackers managing to exploit basic vulnerabilities, to more advanced security breaches carried out by expert criminal hackers and cybercrime organizations overseas, have grabbed the attention of the media.

Cybercrime: Law Enforcement and E-Government Transnational Issues

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During his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama highlighted the importance of defending our nation from the many cyber threats that are continuing to dominate the news cycles. Just days prior to the President’s speech, eighteen people were charged in a massive credit card fraud ring. The Associated Press (2013) described it as a “sprawling international scam that duped credit-rating...

Cybersecurity as a Public Good

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Over the last decade, the boom of the Internet has had a major impact on the way we interact with other individuals and business entities.  Products and services have become available at the touch of a button and access to vast amounts of information has become available to anyone with a direct connection to the web.  Much correspondence, which was traditionally mailed through the...

Security of Information Systems Infrastructure of an International Airport

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This is post 7 of 7 in the series “Cyberspace and Cybersecurity” Government Cybersecurity Initiative for a Universal Internet ID Malicious Code Intrusion Password Cracking – An Exercise Using Cain and Abel to Crack User Passwords What exactly is Cyberspace and Cybersecurity? Security Concerns with Outsourcing IT Services Baseline Security Analyzer – Testing a Standard...

Malicious Code Intrusion

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This is post 2 of 7 in the series “Cyberspace and Cybersecurity” Government Cybersecurity Initiative for a Universal Internet ID Malicious Code Intrusion Password Cracking – An Exercise Using Cain and Abel to Crack User Passwords What exactly is Cyberspace and Cybersecurity? Security Concerns with Outsourcing IT Services Baseline Security Analyzer – Testing a Standard...

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Ian Carnaghan

I am a software developer and online educator who likes to keep up with all the latest in technology. I also manage cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring, DevOps processes, security, and continuous integration and deployment.

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