Computer Security :
Assignment
Learning About Cookies as Spyware.
Research what kind of information cookies store. You might find the following websites helpful:
- allaboutcookies.org/
- howstuffworks.com/cookie1.htm
Using WORD, write an ORIGINAL brief essay of 300 words or more describing cookies and the way they can invade privacy.
Safe Assign is software that verifies the originality of your work against on-line sources and other students.
Note your Safe Assign score. Continue submitting until your Safe Assign score is less than 25. For your first written assignment, you have unlimited times to retry your assignment.
Submit references separately (or add as text) otherwise they cause the Safe Assign score to increase.
Attach your WORD doc and then hit SUBMT.
Required Videos
Here is a video showing some of histories most infamous security breaches.
Click to watch or click embedded video below.
Required Readings
Read Chapter 1 of the Easttom text, Introduction to Computer Security.
Primary topics:
- Types of threats
- Network attacks
- Security terminology
Database Security:
Overview
This week the class concerns Types of Data Breaches
This week’s topics:
- According to studies, the majority of data breaches are ‘insider’ jobs.
- However, data is also compromised via SQL Injection attacks, Inferential attacks, and spearphishing of DBA’s, and more.
Required Videos
SQL Injection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9rHTLHJTY
Watch this video on the SQL Slammer worm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbd4Vk9LO3g
Watch these videos on inference attacks
Week 2 Paper
Write an essay discussing sqlmap, an automated tool for sql injection and database takeover in 500 words or more. Why do we need an automated tool for sql injection?
Do not copy without providing proper attribution. This paper will be evaluated through SafeAssign.
Write in essay format not in outline, bulleted, numbered or other list format.
Use the five paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences.
Include an interesting meaningful title.
Include at least one quote from each of 3 different articles. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library, not Google. Place the words you copied (do not alter or paraphrase the words) in quotation marks and cite in-line (as all work copied from another should be handled). The quotes should be one full sentence (no more, no less) and should be incorporated in your discussion (they do not replace your discussion) to illustrate or emphasize your ideas. Each quote must be cited in-line and at the end.
Cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end. Do not copy without providing proper attribution (quotation marks and in-line citations). Write in essay format not in bulleted, numbered or other list format.
It is important that you use your own words, that you cite your sources, that you comply with the instructions regarding length of your submission Do not use spinbot or other word replacement software. Proof read your work or have it edited. Find something interesting and/or relevant to your work to write about. Please do not submit attachments unless requested.