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    Johnson 6 virus, worms, malware or spyware. It’s very interesting if one goes onto google play or the one from Apple, there are numerous applications created to do a phone scan and to check newly installed applications to ensure your phone is protected from viruses. The world wide web is like playing Russian roulette because of the possibility of contracting a virus or worm. Hackers across the globe will forever be a serious threat to citizens around the world and National Security. The…

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    “I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We 've created life in our own image.” (Hawking, n.d.) No matter what humans invent it will always end up being used for warfare and computers are no different. Cyber warfare is now commonplace throughout the world because just about any country can do it. This causes it to have many various effects throughout the world.…

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    Mobile Security Essay

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    attempts to hack them. Mobile security is just as important as network security and knowing how to secure a device and threats to look out for can be beneficial to both an employee and a business. Mobile devices are vulnerable to attacks just like a computer. A common attack is malware. Malware, short for malicious software, is software that is designed to damage or do…

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    Nt1330 Unit 7

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    Considering what security measures you (or the computer owner) have undertaken for your computer, does the assessment surprise you? Why or why not? What measures should you plan to undertake if the green checkmark did not appear? After seeing my result assessment I was actually surprise from my results. My personal computer (PC) actually received “severe risk” and “blank or weak password” which it actually makes sense because everyone in the house uses the computer; I decide to use because my…

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    Please research one virus and one worm, and write a maximum 2-page single-spaced paper explaining what each of them is, what they do, what their impact was, what the mechanics of how they work are (the technical aspect), and how were they stopped. Computer virus: It is a piece of code which is loaded onto the computer without the user knowledge and runs itself. When this code is executed, it makes a copy of itself and inserts this copy into another computer programs, data files of the hard…

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    I tend to hear throughout the school day several kids my class complaining about how their favorite movie or game website has been restricted, and that the school is so unfair when it comes to web filters. I think that web filters on chromebooks are not too restrictive because, the students seem to use the chromebooks for the right reason with the filters that are being used currently. By, using filters students have been less distracted in class and attentive to what the teacher is…

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    Spyware Research Paper

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    parents should monitor their kids.I agree with Coben’s argument, because the internet isn’t a safe place for privacy.People can now read your privacy thoughts and feelings with just searching it up.Most people won’t even consider spyware in their computer. Some teenagers watch inappriopate videos in the web.The internet is a place that has all the information in the world.It gives you access to a lot of information and a lot of videos that some contain inappriopate stuff.Are you willing to…

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    Pt1420 Unit 1 Essay

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    which anyone could find further information about each of your selected events. A short History of Computer Viruses: 1983 – This is the year when the term “Virus” was introduced by Frederick Cohen for the computer programs that are infectious as it has the tendency to replicate. The beginning of the virus history is much older. The very first implication for program acting like a “VIRUS” is “Self-Reproduction Automata” established in 1949 to produce a large amount of viruses. In 1966,…

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    Sircam and AIDS Virus Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. Unfortunately, I am not talking about this type of virus. I am talking about a computer virus, which is designed to spread from host to host and has the ability to replicate itself through a file or document on a computer. I chose to talk to about two viruses: Sircam and AIDS. The Sircam Virus is a computer worm that propagates by e-mail from Microsoft Windows systems. In July of 2001, the Virus was sent…

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    Dos Attack Research Paper

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    The danger for the average computer user is that someone will hack their system. Most average computer users don’t have anything worth stealing. Now, on the internet, there are other dangers, because your computer could be a launching pad for other attacks. So people might want to break into your computer in order to use it later on as a tool to break into something bigger. These things happen all the time. A lot of DoS (Denial of Service) attacks are based off these types of intrusions. A DoS…

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