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Explain the issues that are in common with both Amazon and Sony? Explain the reasons that cloud computing will continue to grow? What could have prevented Sony from getting hacked? Describe: Rambo architecture Chaos monkey Explain the reason that data centers for cloud computing need backups? may 9 woo

1. Explain the issues that are in common with both Amazon and Sony? Issues that are in common with both Amazon and Sony are their reliability and integrity as well as its security. Amazon has just revealed that its Availability Zone in northern Virginia has failed to accommodate customers that were using their services. Sony's hack incident includes its network protection system to be unreliable. Also the security of Amazon's customer's data along with Sony's online users' data is at risk, as well as sensitive information linked to bank accounts. Both Sony and Amazon suffer a setback on their online reputation. Both companies have their servers down which affect a lot of their customers using their services. They both revived worries about the safety of storing and processing data over the Internet. The two crises have also raised questions about the speed and quality of information provided by tech companies when confronted with systems failures. This further links to the data integrity. Amazon users have said that some data may be corrupted or loss resulting from their sites crashing. Sony's users' accounts data may have been altered by unauthorized people. 2. Explain the reasons that cloud computing will continue to grow? Cloud computing will still continue to grow despite its recent incidents because the benefits users receive outweigh the risks that come with cloud computing. The outage suffered by Amazon has been rare. Also, managing one's own network is hardly a guarantee of reliability; it costs a lot of money and is high maintenance. Cloud computing provides another alternative that can save costs for businesses. Also, the recent incidents have proven that managing one's own network is not as reliable as some think considering protection issues and failure/crashes in the network itself. 3. What could have prevented Sony from getting hacked? Sony could have increased its protection system, as well as create random simulations in orde

Tags: 1.1 Reliability and integrity 1.2 Security 3.3 Network

Da Woon October 10 Brief Article Analysis Answer here.

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and employment, home and leisure 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. in this article, the credit card user and credit card companies are the main stakeholder 3. Identify and describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. In this article, the social/ethical concern is integrity. In this article, it tells that Credit Card Company uses neural networks to keep track of every purchase people make and sorts them into patterns and categories. If people changed their purchasing pattern, the credit card calls you and ask you about did you really buy it. So, if we buy the computer first time, we changed our purchase pattern, so we are losing our integrity to Credit Card Company. So we are really hard to use our own credit card. 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Transaction - Electronic funds transfer, the electronic exchange or transfer of money from one account to another Software - any set of machine-readable instructions that directs a computer's processor to perform specific operations. Hardware - the collection of physical elements that comprise a electrical device system 5. Describe the solution stated in the article or find a solution to the concern (issue) discussed in the article. The one solution in this social/ethical concern would be making a password then using that password with signature to prove our identity when we purchase the product which is not in our pattern such as put our password on our mobile device when we purchasing product with transaction. So we don't need to get the call from Credit Card Company when we purchase the product which is not in our purchasing pattern. Also we can using biometrics on our digital device to prove that we purchase that product when we using transaction to purchase the product.

Explain what happened. Describe the issues. May 9 jen

1.Explain what happened. Sony suffered a hack on their PC games network, which lead to theft of online user's data from its PlayStation video game network. The theft involved 77 million user information. Sony is now hiring various outside firms to investigate on the matter, and try to find the offenders to this hacking. Cyber-security detectives from Guidance Software and consultants from Robert Half International Inc's subsidiary Protviti were brought in to help with the clean-up. 2.Describe the issues. Issues from this includes the reliability and integrity, as well as the security of Sony's protection system and online user's sensitive information which include credit card numbers as well as passwords. The reliability is the reliability of Sony's software. It might have failed to function properly, thus being a loop hole of the hackers to get through. The integrity is keep users' data complete and unaltered without their permission by the hackers. There is also a privacy issue because user's sensitive data was stolen.

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Describe NoSQL and its purpose. Explain how it is used differently than MySQL. M12 jan30 az

Describe NoSQL and its purpose. NoSQL is a highly scalable and reliable non-relational databases designed to maintain high performance and to be highly cost efficient for workloads of any scale, from the smallest to the largest internet-scale applications. It is also used to build a new kind of database for "unstructured" information that comes spilling off the Internet with each passing second. It is capable of handling large amounts of data du to the fact that they use flash storage rather than traditional spinning disks. These solid-state drives can provide single-digit millisecond response times. Explain how it is used differently than MySQL. MySQL database is a relational database that stores data in neat rows and columns, and it's designed to run on a single machine, while NoSQL database can store data in a more flexible way and is designed to scale across a very large number of machines. "SQL databases are like automatic transmission and NoSQL databases are like manual transmission. Once you switch to NoSQL, you become responsible for a lot of work that the system takes care of automatically in a relational database system. Similar to what happens when you pick manual over automatic transmission. Secondly, NoSQL allows you to eke more performance out of the system by eliminating a lot of integrity checks done by relational databases from the database tier. Again, this is similar to how you can get more performance out of your car by driving a manual transmission versus an automatic transmission vehicle." http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2559411/sql-mysql-vs-nosql-couchdb

Jason October 17th  BAA

1.Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and employee 2.Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholder in this article is the credit cards company such as, Visa, MasterCard & American Express. The customer how are using these credit cards company service as well. 3.Identify and describe the ITGS social/ethical concerns in the article. The social/ethical concern in the article is Reliability/ Security. In this article it talk about the old expired credit card that can be re-used again. Unwanted access and get a magnet chip/stripes of a credit card and still use it, to buy whatever they want. The magnet chip/stripes still provide some information of the conventional card. 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. PIN- A PIN is a 4-digit number that is used in combination with your Social Security Number, name, and date of birth to identify you as someone who has the right to access your own personal information Chips- is an integrated circuit in which all the components needed for a computer or other system are included on a single chip 5. Describe the solution stated in the article or find a solution to the concern (issue) discussed in the article When a customer uses their credit card to buy product from shops their must type in they PIN to continue the process and if the PIN is enter incorrectly the process cancels. This will allows the original card hold to buy the products only. Dynamics Inc recently unveiled smart-card technology that doesn't require a smart reader but could still require a PIN: the issuer could program the card so that the PIN has to be tapped on special buttons found on the card itself.

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and employment, Politics and Government 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Politicians, Large Business owners, Victims 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article Surveillance / Privacy 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. The main IT system in this situation is the use of the evolving hardware that is customized to best fit the various situations that need to infiltrate a certain amount of security. The new spy devices today are integrated into everyday devices such as pens and glasses so that it is hard to track and sensor while going through security checks. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Having the government and users agree to sign contracts which only allow certain amounts of digital spy equipment to be produced, and while shipment, if any equipment was found to be not authorized and legitimate to pay a large amount of fine to prevent further disuse of the equipment. Since most of the devices require some sort of signaling in order to spy, having new security checks based on lens reflection as well as machine signal waves can increase security because it would be easier to sensor such devices.

article analysis march 25 soobin

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. -- Leisure, Business 2.Identify all ITGS terminology and phrases (IT and Social/Ethical) -- Twitter, Trojan, Facebook, E-mail spamming, Botnet, messaging service, social inbox, spam, e-mail, networks, online-security firms, junk e-mails, blacklisted addresses, output, domain names, .cn, internet registrars, fraud, web-hosting, cybercrime, hard drives. 3.Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. --Security is a concern in this article where users and spam is concerned. The security of the users' sensitive information is at risk when users click on spam links no matter from what source, from e-mails (which are decreasing now) to Twitter tweet links. By clicking onto these harmful links, users set free spam that can infiltrate the user's hard drive in search for sensitive information for example bank account numbers. 4.Describe the relationship of the main stakeholders to the IT system. ---The main stakeholder will be hackers and people who are using e-mail and social networking. The relationships between them are, normally hackers used spam mail to spend virus or hack their computer with Trojan horse, but as the email security develop hackers slowly moved to social network which is Facebook, and other many programs. They know that people are currently using social networking a lot and their privacy is open and they could easily get people's email too. Therefore by using Koobface, they could hack people's computer and information 5. Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical issue identified in question 3. -- The problem with the security is that the security of the users of their personal and public communications are at risk where spam is concerned. Spam is nowadays being planted in almost every corner of the internet, no matter where, in order to try and trick users into clicking on the harmful links in order to spread malware, such as Trojans. Spam is comm

What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? Describe LinkedIn. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? What are the 7 International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles? Explain the major criticism of this system (International...)? Explain "self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement". Explain "China's political elite have a love hate relationship with the internet". march 25 woo

1. What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? Google says that Chinese customers and advertisers have increasingly been complaining about their Gmail service in the past month. Attempts by users to send messages, mark messages as unread and use other services have generated problems for Gmail customers. Google shows potential signs that the Chinese government is increasing their censorship by revealing that Gmail's e-mailing system features have been disrupted for Gmail users as well as other Gmail interfaces such as sending e-mails. Google also reveals that the users who filed in these complaints are mostly potential threats to the Chinese government such as the activist accounts also with financial, technology, media and chemical companies users' accounts. Thus, even though there is no concrete evidence, there are signs that are most likely to be linked to the Chinese government. 2. How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? The move follows extensive attempts by the Chinese authorities to crack down on the Jasmine revolution, an online dissident movement inspired by events in the Middle East. The censorship was supposed to prevent people from getting too much information but instead, this can provoke people to go against the government since people are aware that they have been treated unfairly. 3. Describe LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone to become a connection. 4. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? LinkedIn is business-social networking and Chinese can use this site as the means of evoking opposition against the government. China's president Hu Jint

Identify the issue. Describe the possible solutions. march 11 jenny

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Identify the issue Intellectual Property Rights - Piracy Describe the possible solutions Solutions that are harsh to the point of shutting down the website that hosts these download links to pirated music, videos, and other intellectual property, etc. Or censoring the pirated files on the website to be inaccessible. However, this isn't a feasible solution since it would cause massive uproar for the users who use the sites on a regular basis, which in this case may be millions of people. Policing IT malls, as well as formulating and enforcing strict laws with hard punishments for violators.

Describe the following terms and explain possible solutions: drive-by downloads clickjacking targeted brand attacks on social networks MitB (Man-in-the-Browser) MitMo (Man-in-the-Mobile) advanced on-the-fly SSL hacking may 23 soo

drive-by downloads Drive-by downloads are downloads to the computer that are harmful, and are downloaded because the user doesn't know that the download took place, what was downloaded (virus, malware) or downloaded something, but didn't know it was malware. When a malicious website is visited, malware may be downloaded to the computer without users even knowing. Solutions to prevent drive-by downloads include having the internet security suite (like Norton Internet Security) installed and kept up to date. Also, using a proxy can filter the web content (like Vidalia). The user's antivirus firewall should always be turned on. http://www.softwarenewsdaily.com/2010/12/drive-by-downloads-malware-installed-without-your-knowledge http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/794101/how_to_prevent_driveby_downloads_.html Clickjacking Clickjacking, also known as user-interface (UI) redressing, is one of the most common attacks against users by creating malicious pages that tricking users to click on buttons and links which reveal sensitive information, or can allow the attacker to take over control of the user's computer. The true function of the button is hidden under an opaque layer that shows something different to trick the users. A possible solution to clickjacking is the "walled garden" that iPhone has. It has a closed or exclusive set of information services provided for users, instead of allowing open access to apps and content. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking Targeted brand attacks on social networks Targeted brand attacks on social networks is attacking the big brand names, and attacking its reputation, currently common through attacks on social networks and phishing. Scammers that hijacked a social networking account can add random people to their friends list, and link them to malicious sites. Or an attacker would disguise themselves as the "official" profile of the brand company, and make friends and trick them into revealing sen

brief all sept 5 woo

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Home and Leisure, Environment, Business 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. People, British Gas, UK Customers 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Reliability and Integrity 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. - Smart meter: an electronic device which enables users to monitor the cost of their electricity and gas consumption in real time, and eventually see how much power individual appliances are using. - Smart phones and Tablets - Devices that include smart features such as reading e-mails and featuring applications for users. Both smart phones and tablets today can feature touch screens, without needing a physical keyboard to operate the various actions. - GPRS: General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). The concern that might rise from this case is that the devices, that are about to be installed on million homes, may not as effective as people have estimated. The reliability of the device depends on the device itself and the production company.

Explain the issues and possible solutions. april 4 kuni

The issue is that the increasing integration of medical devices in hospital networks can increases the risk of being attacked easily, which they hack into the network and steals information. They need to strengthen the security to get against with the possibility of virus attacks which could have a huge damage on delivering data for medication. The Public Health Ministry can play an important role as a regulator in healthcare security, as a same system with the security in the network banking.