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    Introduction There are simple steps that can be taken to make your computer safer. Every computer connected to a network is at risk of being attacked, but knowledge of each threat that can occur and knowing how to minimize your security risk can help in the setup of a new computer and the ones that you already have. With knowing how to prevent your computer from being attacked will help you in setting up accounts for social media as well because you will be able to tell what and who is harmful to

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    unauthorized access to anyone that is prohibited to access the files. Now, it’s time to acquire the installation for the anti-malware software, which gives the system and passwords more protection from “viruses such as, worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, spyware, keyloggers, ransomware, and adware, anti-malware software is also a type of software program designed to prevent, detect, and remediate malicious programming on individual computing devices and IT systems” (Rouse, 2013). Furthermore, the malware

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    Saleh Abuhasharah ID# 1616885 Information Security Dr. Harvey Lowy 1- components of an information system: Information System is a complete set of software and hardware, data, people, and procedures, and networks that enable the use of information resources in the organization. There are six components of information systems and each component has its strength and weakness points, and it has its properties and its uses. And also each component of Information System has its own security requirements

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    Cybercrime is defined as the use of the Internet using the computer either as a tool or a targeted victim to commit crimes. Cybercrime is difficult to determine and does not have a clear classification system and uses two dimensions. The computer as a tool and the target consist of the first dimension. The second dimension consists of the crime itself: person, property, and victimless/vice (ebook crime) In the first dimension cybercrime is divided into two categories. The first, being the use of

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    this way the organization lost a large number of dollars, was unstuck from its position in the business and in the long run needed to lay off 80 laborers. To ensure this doesn't transpire, introduce and utilize against infection programs, hostile to spyware projects, and firewalls on all PCs in your business. Additionally, guarantee that all PC programming is progressive and contains the latest patches (i.e., working framework,

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    6th Question: IETF is to make internet work better. Mission of IETF is to produce high quality, relevant technical documents which influence people to use, design and manage internet. IETF working groups are referred as WG’s. Working groups are created to address a specific problem or to produce one or more than one specific deliveries. WG’s are generally intended to be standard and short lived in nature. Some of the WG’s are as follows: Area Active work Group Name Description Email Address Applications

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    Hacking The Internet is a gateway to a computer to connect to the world, which also makes it exposed to attacks from hackers across the globe. The advances in technology have led to the development of key-logging software that is able of tracking and recording every keystroke by the user, thereby the possibility of stealing passwords and account details. Computer hacking is unauthorized access to information or property, by the act of modifying computer hardware or software, to cause damage to sensitive

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    chosen form of damage for examples cause the damage the file allocation table on the hard disk. Spyware is any technology or device or software that gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge such as tracking device or tracking software. For example that someone put the person's computer by secretly to gather the information about the user in details. In addiction spyware can also categories as software virus as the result of installing a new program through the computer

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    Spyware Is Good

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    Some say that we as a society are constantly being watched. Other people would say that we are not being constantly watched. Many people are worried about technology being used more and more to survey or even spy on the people. Spyware can be a very dangerous invention. Few have even gone to the point of questioning whether or not we are being spied on as much as the people were in the world of Big Brother, a world that was fictionally created where everyone is surveilled 24/7. It is believed that

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    infrastructure of the site or network system, these attacks are often politically targeted.in addition to that, Political threats that focus on targeting the military positions of some countries to steal information related to state security. To emphasize, Spyware by sending programs to the computer to obtain confidential military

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