Category: Technology

Why do you believe that these two tools are the best choice to stop network, DOS, and/or Windows attacks? Provide a rationale.

Cybercrime Tools

As a cybercrime professional you have many tools in your arsenal to stop network, DOS and/or Windows attacks.

Read the article, 21 Best Free Digital Forensic Investigation Tools, which briefly describes many of the tools.

Select two forensic investigator tools from the list below:

Autopsy.
Magnet Encrypted Disk Detector.
Wireshark.
Magnet RAM Capture.
Network Miner.
NMAP.
RAM Capturer.
FAW Forensics Acquisition of Websites (This is a tool to acquire Web pages for forensic investigation).
HashMyFiles.
CrowdResponse.
ExifTool.
SIFT.
Browser History Capturer and Browser History viewer by Foxton.
Sleuth Kit.
CAINE.
Volatility Framework.
Paladin Forensic Suite.
FTK Imager.
Bulk_Extractor.
LastActivityView.
FireEye RedLine.

Describe the tools you have selected:

How do each of the tools work?

How are they different from each other?

Why do you believe that these two tools are the best choice to stop network, DOS, and/or Windows attacks? Provide a rationale.

Describe an event or instance when one of these tools is the superior counter measure.

What is social engineering?Describe the effects of the attack both in general and in the specific instance you found.

Social Engineering

What is social engineering? Simply put, it is “any act that influences a person to take action that may or may not be in their best interest.” Social engineering is a term that encompasses a broad spectrum of malicious activity.

Select one of the following social engineering attack techniques:

Baiting.
Scareware.
Pretexting.
Phishing.
Vishing.
Tailgating.
Watering hole.
Whaling.
Spear phishing.

In addition, find articles about an instance where the chosen social engineering attack was used.

In a 1–2 page paper, respond to the following items:

Describe the attack in detail.
Describe the technique of the attacks.
Describe the effects of the attack both in general and in the specific instance you found.
Discuss three ways to prevent the attack. Provide a rationale.

How do you use technology in your everyday life? Your creative life? Your work life?Is there any specific digital or non-digital technology you would have a hard time living without? Why?

HU Stage 2
Some suggested question you can consider working into a formal or informal interview include:

Do you associate any form of technology with a significant event or time in your life? Tell me more about that event or time.

What kinds of non-digital technology do you frequently use, or have you frequently used throughout your life?

Has there been any specific piece of technology in your life that helped transform the way you think about something in the world?

How do you use technology in your everyday life? Your creative life? Your work life?

Is there any specific digital or non-digital technology you would have a hard time living without? Why?

How has technology changed throughout your life?

Is there any technology you wish had not changed? Why?

Has there been a specific form of technology that contributed to who you are today? Tell me more.

How are you a different, better, worse, enhanced, safer, etc., person when you use a specific form of technology than when you don’t?

How has your self- worth or self-conception been affected by technology?

Explain one argument for why AI may never be able to replicate a human being completely. Be sure to refer to information in the Required Learning Materials.

HU Dis

Barfield’s “Cyborgs and Enhancement Technology,” Rubin’s “Robotic Souls,” and Shanahan’s chapter, “Heaven or Hell,” please do the following:

Identify and describe three specific ways our current understanding of a human being can be called into question, complicated, or changed by technological advances. Be sure to refer to information in the Required Learning Materials for all of your answer.

Explain one argument for why AI may never be able to replicate a human being completely. Be sure to refer to information in the Required Learning Materials.

Based on what you have learned from the readings, determine and explain your answer to the question: “Can machines be human?” What do you think and why?

Transhumanism

Arnhart, Larry. “Human Nature Is Here to Stay.” The New Atlantis, no. 2, 2003, pp. 65–78.

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Baumann, Fred. “Humanism and Transhumanism.” The New Atlantis, no. 29, 2010, pp. 68–84.

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Nick Bostrom. “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?” The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), vol. 53, no. 211, 2003, p. 243.

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Boyles, Robert James M. “A Case for Machine Ethics in Modeling Human-Level Intelligent Agents.” KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 182–200.

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Rubin, Charles T. “Machine Morality and Human Responsibility.” The New Atlantis, no. 32, 2011, pp. 58–79.

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Mosco, Vincent. Becoming Digital: Toward a Post-Internet Society. Vol. 1st ed, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.

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AI

McCue, M., & Holmes, K. (2018). Myth and the Making of AI. Journal of Design and Science.

https://doi.org/10.21428/d3a0f14d

Schulman, Ari N. “Why Minds Are Not Like Computers.” New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society, vol. 23, Winter 2009, pp. 46–68.

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Cyborgs

Bailey, Ronald. “The Case for Enhancing People.” The New Atlantis, no. 32, 2011, pp. 16–38.

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Bertolotti, T.; Arfini, S.; Magnani, L. Of Cyborgs and Brutes: Technology-Inherited Violence and Ignorance. Philosophies 2017, 2, 1-14.

https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/2/1/1

Clark, Andy. Natural-Born Cyborgs : Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence. Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Schaik, Paul van, and Philip Barker. Electronic Performance Support : Using Digital Technology to Enhance Human Ability. Routledge, 2010.

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How is the business intelligence analytics information shared in a large global enterprise? What are the key metrics included and supported by business intelligence?

Week 9 Discussion
Respond to the following in a substantive post (3–4 paragraphs):

What is your understanding of big data? How do big data and business intelligence contribute to decision-making?

The function of business analytics plays a vital role in delivering the necessary information to the constituent decision-makers. How is the business intelligence analytics information shared in a large global enterprise? What are the key metrics included and supported by business intelligence?

Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

Explain one unintended consequence of the rise of digital music. What problem(s) did this create in the music industry?

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After reading Prior’s article “Beyond Napster” and Heap’s commentary “Blockchain Could Help Musicians Make Money Again,” do the following:

Identify and briefly explain one way the digitization of music has changed the creation, distribution or consumption of music.

Explain one unintended consequence of the rise of digital music. What problem(s) did this create in the music industry?

Do you think Heap’s proposed solution to music ownership could work? Why or why not?

Relate some of the history of digital music to how your music consumption changed over the past ten years.

 

What is your take? Does digital nomadism put an end to this? What type of talent does the field you are at, require?

 The world is flat. You do not need to migrate to innovate. Expand

Density is a crude indicator of human and economic activity. However, the economic power is concentrated in a specific urban area. Explain with examples

Population and economic activity are spiky, and so is innovation. Justify

What is your take? Does digital nomadism put an end to this? What type of talent does the field you are at, require?

Analyze binary oppositions and world view constructions: urban-rural, developed-undeveloped, rich-poor, can we move beyond binaries?

Account for which of the three paradigms: mind-machine; product-platform or core-crowd would describe this project for the US Pavilion at the 2018 and justify your answer