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    world, staying in touch with family and friends, and sending pictures. Disadvantages with social media are, hackers, stolen identity, terrorists, exploitation, and bullies to name a few. The internet can be very scary and have some significant disadvantages. From terrorists posting beheadings on social media to people putting personal information on a site and having their identity stolen. There are many pros and cons when it comes to jumping head first into social media. Each person must decide for

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    parents, applied for their social security number. And the second set of two are the group number, which I believe is assigned to all numbers given out at a certain time in my geographic area. Basically where I am getting at is that a determined identity thief with some computing power could hack it at any given time. Not just me, but anybody. Something I am currently looking into that I didn’t do yet is invest in a VPN, which is Virtual Private Network. A lot of business savvy people tend to use

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    an unhappy customer, a disgruntled employee or a tech-savvy youth who just wanted to see if he could breach a target 's defenses. Occasionally, a hacker might aspire to more devious crimes, including identity theft, blackmail, theft of trade secrets, exposure of personal information or monetary theft. These types of hackers were annoying, unnerving and potentially dangerous, but they seldom caused widespread damages or serious financial losses. Today, however, cybersecurity professionals face an entirely

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    Information security so important in healthcare because being able to share data digitally holds a lot of potential for doctors, nurses and clinicians to send and receive content fast and effectively. Although this is a great thing, on one hand, it is also dangerous because patient data and other sensitive information are even more at risk of being stolen, exposed or accessed by unauthorized parties. Because of this, security must be a top priority for any medical organization today and for the

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    Risky Situations CMGT/400 Version 2�� PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �11��� _University of Phoenix Material_ _RISKY SITUATIONS_ Identify three types of sensitive information involved with each situation. Then, describe three ways in which each information item could be misused or harmed. For each of these, note at least one likely finding that you would include in a risk analysis report of the organization. Finally, answer the questions at the end. SITUATION 1 - ONLINE BANKING SYSTEM INFORMATION AFFECTED

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    provider, your bank). These messages usually direct you to a spoofed website or otherwise get you to divulge private information (e.g., passphrase, credit card, or other account updates). The criminals then use this private information to commit identity theft. If phishing attack KUPTM server, the criminal will be able to know everything about student data including student academic information, personal information and others which more known as data exposed. To Avoid Phishing : • Be suspicious of

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    Are identification cards the answer to keeping the United States of America safe from anyone trying to harm the nation? Over the years identification cards have been the solution to making sure that anyone that is currently in the U.S. is a legal citizen and can stay here. As technology begins to become more advanced and easy to use, the cards have helped people gain easy access to their personal information have become one of the main things that have distribute their personal information to others

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    to oneself? What occurs conceding that one has personal information on social media such as scammers, stalker, and thieves have easy access to that information which they will use against that individual? In the case that a scammer finds personal identity information, they will not stop until they get everything that they can steal from that person. In the case that a stalker finds personal information, they will not stop until they track that person down to get whatever the stalker intends to get

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    most individuals. Behind that integrity would be the next priority, to make sure this matches up with the individual at hand. Third of course would have to be availability, without this information, it could prove to be difficult to verify someones identity. First Name and Last Name – I feel that all of these attributes serve the same level of importance, due to the fact there is no description of what sort of situation this worksheet is in reference to. A lot of information can be had, just from a

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    person who breaks into computers, usually by gaining access to administrative controls. There are several types of hackers. The black hat is someone who breaks computer security without authorization or uses technology for credit card fraud, identity theft, and piracy. A security exploit takes advantage of a known security weakness. These are very common in website/domain hacking. A packet sniffer is an application that captures data packets, which can be used to capture passwords and other data

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