This 2 hour presentation provides an overview of Internet Security. The first part addresses current threats such as viruses, Trojans, backdoors, botnets and more. The second part talks about how to protect yourself from these threats by changing the way you surf the ‘Net and by understanding your software and hardware options.
Who were the top 5 riskiest celebrities in 2009? Did spammers really know who killed Michael Jackson? Take a look back at who and what made the top of cybercriminals’ list in 2009 and what’s on their radar in 2010.
Symantec Report On Rogue Security SoftwareSymantec
The Symantec Report on Rogue Security Software is an in-depth analysis of rogue security software programs. In total, Symantec has detected more than 250 distinct rogue security software programs. During the period of this report, from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, Symantec received reports of 43 million rogue security software installation attempts from those 250 distinct samples. The continued prevalence of these programs emphasizes the ongoing threat they pose to potential victims despite efforts to shut them down and raise public awareness.
This 2 hour presentation provides an overview of Internet Security. The first part addresses current threats such as viruses, Trojans, backdoors, botnets and more. The second part talks about how to protect yourself from these threats by changing the way you surf the ‘Net and by understanding your software and hardware options.
Who were the top 5 riskiest celebrities in 2009? Did spammers really know who killed Michael Jackson? Take a look back at who and what made the top of cybercriminals’ list in 2009 and what’s on their radar in 2010.
Symantec Report On Rogue Security SoftwareSymantec
The Symantec Report on Rogue Security Software is an in-depth analysis of rogue security software programs. In total, Symantec has detected more than 250 distinct rogue security software programs. During the period of this report, from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, Symantec received reports of 43 million rogue security software installation attempts from those 250 distinct samples. The continued prevalence of these programs emphasizes the ongoing threat they pose to potential victims despite efforts to shut them down and raise public awareness.
This presentation provides an inside view of how the Social media presence could harm any individual if no proper vigilance is kept while being active on various social platforms.
A brief overview of the open source technologies available for building social applications on top of social containers such as YAP, iGoogle, Orkut, MySpace, etc.
Targeted social engineering attacks in the form of spear phishing emails, are often the main gimmick used by attackers to infiltrate organizational networks and implant state- of-the-art Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Spear phishing is a complex targeted attack in which, an attacker harvests information about the victim prior to the attack. This infor- mation is then used to create sophisticated, genuine-looking attack vectors, drawing the victim to compromise confidential information. What makes spear phishing different, and more powerful than normal phishing, is this contextual information about the victim. Online social media services can be one such source for gathering vital information about an individual. In this paper, we characterize and examine a true positive dataset of spear phishing, spam, and normal phishing emails from Symantec’s enterprise email scanning service. We then present a model to detect spear phishing emails sent to employees of 14 international organizations, by using social features extracted from LinkedIn. Our dataset consists of 4,742 targeted attack emails sent to 2,434 victims, and 9,353 non targeted attack emails sent to 5,912 non victims; and publicly available information from their LinkedIn profiles. We applied various machine learning algorithms to this labeled data, and achieved an overall maximum accuracy of 97.76% in identifying spear phishing emails. We used a combination of social features from LinkedIn profiles, and stylometric features extracted from email subjects, bodies, and attachments. However, we achieved a slightly better accuracy of 98.28% without the social features. Our analysis revealed that social features extracted from LinkedIn do not help in identifying spear phishing emails. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first attempts to make use of a combination of stylometric features extracted from emails, and social features extracted from an online social network to detect targeted spear phishing emails.
This presentation provides an inside view of how the Social media presence could harm any individual if no proper vigilance is kept while being active on various social platforms.
A brief overview of the open source technologies available for building social applications on top of social containers such as YAP, iGoogle, Orkut, MySpace, etc.
Targeted social engineering attacks in the form of spear phishing emails, are often the main gimmick used by attackers to infiltrate organizational networks and implant state- of-the-art Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Spear phishing is a complex targeted attack in which, an attacker harvests information about the victim prior to the attack. This infor- mation is then used to create sophisticated, genuine-looking attack vectors, drawing the victim to compromise confidential information. What makes spear phishing different, and more powerful than normal phishing, is this contextual information about the victim. Online social media services can be one such source for gathering vital information about an individual. In this paper, we characterize and examine a true positive dataset of spear phishing, spam, and normal phishing emails from Symantec’s enterprise email scanning service. We then present a model to detect spear phishing emails sent to employees of 14 international organizations, by using social features extracted from LinkedIn. Our dataset consists of 4,742 targeted attack emails sent to 2,434 victims, and 9,353 non targeted attack emails sent to 5,912 non victims; and publicly available information from their LinkedIn profiles. We applied various machine learning algorithms to this labeled data, and achieved an overall maximum accuracy of 97.76% in identifying spear phishing emails. We used a combination of social features from LinkedIn profiles, and stylometric features extracted from email subjects, bodies, and attachments. However, we achieved a slightly better accuracy of 98.28% without the social features. Our analysis revealed that social features extracted from LinkedIn do not help in identifying spear phishing emails. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first attempts to make use of a combination of stylometric features extracted from emails, and social features extracted from an online social network to detect targeted spear phishing emails.
Introduction to the Social Web and its applicationsmdabrowski
Session 1.1 Introduction to the Social Web and its Applications
A guest teaching module at the University of Modena/Reggio Emilia, covering topics:
- what is social media?
- wikis, blogs, microblogs, ...
- examples of social networks
- interesting social network usage stats
- culture of social networking
December is Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month - Identity theft is a serious crime. This is the month to educate yourself on how to prevent identity theft. Join us for an important webinar with staff members from the SC Department of Consumer Affairs on how to prevent ID theft and know what to do if it happens to you. Open to library staff, state government employees, general public.
The Public Library as Innovator: Statewide Partnership for Economic Development (presented at PLA)
Workforce woes and economic adversity: The local public library is there, both as sufferer and as remedy. Collaboration is imperative in such a climate! The South Carolina State Library has brought libraries to the table with workforce development specialists and small business support agencies, resulting in replicable innovative programs and web resources that spur local economic development and promote library sustainability. Learn how to make your library a "solution institution!"
Benefits and Learning Objectives
Program participants will learn three key lessons from the South Carolina Business & Workforce Development Initiative (WORKSC): How to incorporate business reference and good community business programming into the everyday mindset of the public library with a special emphasis on the training component; how to partner with business, workforce, literacy and adult education contacts to maximize the library's ability to partner in these areas; and, participants will observe an online portal that supports resources and services for local small businesses and Workforce Development Resources, emphasizing a replicable template, and including free tools to enhance communication, marketing and public relations. Participants will discover how to bring together the interests of rural and urban communities in support of local economic development efforts.
A Guide to Internet Security For Businesses- Business.comBusiness.com
Recent revelations by National Security Agency (NSA) renegade contractor Edward Snowden have resulted in many businesses paying more attention to how secure their computer systems are. But even the most “cyber-savvy” businesses can have their computer networks hacked and compromised. Use this whitepaper to understand your threats, protective options, and trends in internet security for businesses.
Whitepaper for IM Lock Software
http://www.comvigo.com
Our Latest Version of IMLock
http://www.imlock.com/how-to-block-a-website-with-imlock/
IM Lock is an internet filtering software for Home, Business, and Networks.
It seems like we've been hearing a lot about phishing in the news in recent years, and this threat hasn't abated yet. Why are attacks via phishing -and social engineering in general -so prevalent and so effective? This whitepaper examines the many different methods employed in phishing attacks and social engineering campaigns, and offers a solution-based approach to mitigating risk from these attack vectors.
SS236 Unit 8 Assignment Rubric Content 70 Points Do.docxaryan532920
SS236 Unit 8 Assignment Rubric
Content 70 Points
Does the learner demonstrate an understanding of unit learning
outcomes and course material? The Unit 8 Project includes the
following/answers the following questions:
• Were you surprised by the political ideology to which you
belong? Why or why not?
• What are the origins of that political ideology?
• What are your ideology’s prospects for future political
success? Do you anticipate that the percentage of adults/
registered voters aligned with the same political ideology as
you are likely to increase or decrease in the near future?
• How might this ideological group impact political parties
and elections?
• Support your answer(s) with information obtained from the
text and at least two academic sources.
• Does the paper meet the length requirement?
Style 15 Points
Does the learner express his or her thoughts and present his or her
own views in a reasoned manner? Does the learner include the
following components:
• An introductory paragraph with a thesis statement?
• Clearly written paragraphs with topic sentences, body of
evidence, a conclusion sentence?
• A conclusion paragraph?
Mechanics 15 Points
Does the writing show strong composition skills? Does the leaner
include the following components?
• An APA formatted paper that includes an APA reference
page?
• Are the sentences complete?
• Is the grammar correct?
• Is the spelling and punctuation correct? Is APA used
properly?
• Are there any typos?
Total 100 Points
Classification of Computer Crime
Defining computer crime sufficiently is a daunting and difficult task. Nevertheless there are, generally, four categories of computer crime, including (1) the computer as a target, (2) the computer as an instrument of the crime, (3) the computer as incidental to crime, and (4) crimes associated with the prevalence of computers. Definitions can become rapidly outdated, as new technology has consistently bred new offenses and victimizations.
1 The Computer as a Target
Crimes where the computer itself is the target include the denial of expected service or the alteration of data. In other words, the attack seeks to deny the legitimate user or owner of the system access to his or her data or computer. Network intruders target the server and may cause harm to the network owners or the operation of their business.
Data alteration and denial directly target the computer by attacking the useful information stored or processed by the computer. Altered data may affect business decisions made by the company or may directly impact individuals by altering their records. Furthermore, this activity, in some circumstances, results in the expenditure of great resources to recover the data. Although malicious network intruders may alter critical data, the most common source of such damage is an employee of the affected company. The primary difference between data alteration and network ...
This slidecast provides information on the interrelationships between Web 2.0/social network applications and security. It explores the impacts that Web 2.0/social network applications have on security, provides examples of such security attacks, and offer potential solutions.
It gives information regarding 6 different cyber attacks which most of the people become a victim of and which part of society is affected by which attack.
It explains how this attacks are done by hackers and explains ways to prevent them.
This is a presentation Bill gave at the May 2009 NAISG meeting on the security dangers of such social networking entities as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FBI And Cyber Crime | Crime Stoppers International Scott Mills
Crime Stoppers International 32nd Training Conference Presentation October 25, 2011 by Cyber Crime FBI Unit Chief David Wallace in Montego Bay, Jamaica
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Social Media Security
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2. Introduction to Social Networking Massive adoption in the consumer market MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster SecondLife Ning , etc. Statistics on Facebook Over 64,000,000 users Over 250,000 new registrations per day Over 200,000 developers have submitted some sort of Facebook application using basic programming skills and there are over 15,000 official apps Users can add up to 20 friends per day Facebook apps can be considered as XHTML snippets that inherit all the properties of web applications
3. Ideal Exploitation Platform? Social networks have intrinsic properties that make them ideal to be exploited by an adversary: Difficult to police: very large and distributed user base Trust network: clusters of users sharing the same social interests developing trust with each other Platform openness for developing applications that are attractive the general users who will install them
4. Other Precedents? One of the ways to think about the broader risks of social networking against critical infrastructure is related to the problems of state-sponsored attackers “People’s War” concept a la Dragon Bytes – many home computers used as soldiers Similar problem seen with Gnutella used as a DDOS platform A rogue social network app could be used in the same manner or worse
5. Two Social Networking Sites91 Percent of Phishing Attacks In an analysis of cyber crime activity in the 2nd half of 2007, security vendor Symantec Corp. found that two social networking sites together were the target of 91 percent of U.S.-based phishing Web sites. Social networking sites also were the leading targets of phishing sites located in four other countries listed by Symantec in its phishing Top 10. Source: Symantec Corp. Hijacked social networking pages often are used to host malicious software or "malware" directly or to host links phishing or malware sites that are then advertised in messages sent to all of the contacts in the victim's social network.
7. Why Don’t We Just Ban It All Banning public social networking sites from corporate use may help with the distraction factor and with some of the other technical issues, but.. In many cases, there is just too much personal information posted on these sites Information such as the full names of parents, pets, schools and other “keys” that are used to unlock personal and professional accounts Embarrassing or inappropriate pictures that could be used in blackmail scenarios (think Cold War) Lifestyle information that may create personal or professional problems
8. Taking It to the Extreme If an adversary were able to develop an application as successful as FunWall, for example, a victim host would have to cope with about 23 Mbit/sec of unsolicited traffic and nearly 248GB a day of unwanted data Of course, this assumes a lot about bandwidth and the lack of proper network and security management… But, adversaries don’t need all that bandwidth.
9. Here's a look at the seven most lethal social networks hacks: 1) Impersonation and targeted personal attacks 2) Spam and bot infections 3) WeaponizedOpenSocial and other social networking applications 4) Crossover of personal to professional online presence 5) XSS, CSRF attacks 6) Identity theft 7) Corporate espionage Social Networking
10. Social Networking Because of its huge base -- last month Facebook said it had more than 300 million users -- the site is a frequent target for hackers and identity thieves 10-28-2009 Researchers at several security firms have uncovered a spam campaign targeting Facebook users. The e-mails, which pose as communications from Facebook about password resets, contain a nasty downloader that ultimately makes users part of a notorious botnet. 10-02-2009 Facebook Attackers May Have Cracked CAPTCHAResearchers at AVG Technologies may have uncovered a scheme by attackers to circumvent the CAPTCHA protections on Facebook to create fraudulent accounts. 02-09-2009 Rik Ferguson, senior security advisor for Trend Micro, said the social networking Web site based in Palo Alto, Calif., has been hit in the past week with four malicious applications and a new version of the Koobface virus that was first detected in December 2008, the BBC reported Monday
11. Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks How do you avoid being a victim? Be suspicious of unsolicited phone calls, visits, or email messages from individuals asking about employees or other internal information. If an unknown individual claims to be from a legitimate organization, try to verify his or her identity directly with the company. Do not provide personal information or information about your organization, including its structure or networks, unless you are certain of a person's authority to have the information. Do not reveal personal or financial information in email, and do not respond to email solicitations for this information. This includes following links sent in email. Don't send sensitive information over the Internet before checking a website's security (see Protecting Your Privacy for more information). Pay attention to the URL of a website. Malicious websites may look identical to a legitimate site, but the URL may use a variation in spelling or a different domain (e.g., .com vs. .net). Social Networking
12. If you are unsure whether an email request is legitimate, try to verify it by contacting the company directly. Do not use contact information provided on a website connected to the request; instead, check previous statements for contact information. Information about known phishing attacks is also available online from groups such as the Anti-Phishing Working Group (http://www.antiphishing.org). Install and maintain anti-virus software, firewalls, and email filters to reduce some of this traffic (see Understanding Firewalls, Understanding Anti-Virus Software, and Reducing Spam for more information). Take advantage of any anti-phishing features offered by your email client and web browser. Social Networking