Deepan I Patel

I think week 2 and week8 have the same quiz

Facebook is adding a third antivirus engine to its service to help catch malicious content in the News Feed and messages sent by users. Facebook can detect on its servers if a device may be infected and warn users they should run an anti-malware scan

http://www.cio.com/article/2855374/facebook-bulks-up-defenses-with-a-third-antivirus-engine.html

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/technology/security/hacked-web-cameras-russia/index.html

I found this interesting article about how a group of Russian hackers took 4600 cameras and Web cams. They did it to show how vulnerable these cameras and security systems can be. The cameras were easily hacked default passwords were never changed.

I found this article really interesting because we talk about physical security in class and badges that prevent people from entering buildings; however, we never discussed extreme physical hacking. In Russia, people are actually blowing up ATMs instead of using skimmers because it is faster and convenient. A hacker can get the cash then and…[Read more]

WireLurker has attacked more than 400 applications on ios devices in China via their Maiyadi App store. Users are being infected when they connect their iphones to a desktop that has already been infected. This is a huge problem because a cell phone could be affected even if it is NOT jailbroken.…[Read more]

The article I read talks about hacking into your brain. It starts out by saying that you can send electrical signals to your brain to get more energy, improve your focus or even to calm you down. This could be a good thing and a scary thing for our future. Hackers or crackers are able to get into our technology without us knowing so one day it…[Read more]

It is important for an organization to have physical securities because organizations can be hacked from USB drives that are simply found on the ground or USB drives that are given out during promotional events outside the building.

Question- Why don’t organizations seal off USB drives if they are so vulnerable? Employees that need to t…[Read more]

This week I will be posting about a video I watched because it shows how hacking is a good thing sometimes. I guy named Johnny Lee hacked into a Wii remote and improved its function for the real world. He was able to make the wii remote in a touch screen white board basically for only 40 to 50 dollars compared to thousands. The best part was…[Read more]

Ads are increasingly becoming a part of cyber attacks and ads placed on websites are 36% fake. Verizon spends about $1.2 billion on ads a year. Computers that are infected start to spread with bot traffic cheats. These viruses visit other ads to drive false traffic to it so the ads can generate false revenue. This happens because the ads track…[Read more]

Goodwill industries had a security breach similar to Target and Home Depot that lasted for 18th months. Intruders were able to get to their data through their third party Point-of-sales system. Goodwill only knew about the intrusions because banks started reporting false charges on cards that were all used at Goodwill previously.

Question:…[Read more]

The article I read about talks about how easy it is to take down a network in any area. The device used to do this is called cyborg unplug and it was invented as a “wireless anti-surveillance system”. This little unit has the ability to shut out drones and any network device so photos or videos cannot be uploaded to the internet. This can be…[Read more]

This week I chose the article of iCloud getting hacked. I chose this article because it resembles this week’s case study. The case talks about phishing attacks and how bank accounts are compromised. Both of these articles raise a question of security and customer awareness. HDFC was able to fix their issue by sending email to make custoemrs…[Read more]