Web Application Security

 

Watch the Movie War Games from 1983. According to the New York Times, this movie had a tremendous effect on President Ronald Reagan.  Discuss in 500 words your opinion on whether it should be required viewing in social studies classes in high school. Do not repeat the story. Discuss it’s use in school. 

Use at least three sources.  Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs.

Copying without attribution or the use of spin-bot or other word substitution software will result in a grade of 0. 

Assignment

 Do a bit of research on the hearsay rule in legal proceedings. In your own words, explain the hearsay rule and describe how it relates to the concept of an expert witness.

Write a short paper, 200-300 words, using WORD 

research paper

 Update your paper to address the course concepts that have been covered (from Milestone 1, 2, 3 drafts) – as they are applicable to your specific industry, to your specific company. 

Threats posed by browser add ins

 Please complete the questions in a Word document and then upload the assignment for grading. When assigning a name to your document please use the following format (lname_Assignment7). Use examples from the readings, lecture notes and outside research to support your answers. The assignment must be a minimum of 2-full pages in length with a minimum of 2 – sources. Please be sure to follow APA v6 guidelines for the entire paper. Assignments are due by 11:55 pm Eastern time on Sunday.

Assignment 7. Go online and search for information about security threats posed by browser add-ins, such as Java applets and ActiveX controls (Do not use either of these examples). Note that most of these programs are small in size and downloaded onto computers over the Internet. Look for a specific example of a security problem resulting from such add-ins, and document the problem in a case study.

7 questions

  

1) Read this Time article and view the video(https://time.com/5168202/russia-troll-internet-research-agency/) explaining how Russian trolls spread fake news.  Discuss in 500 words whether the government should regulate Facebook more closely.  

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library(https://libguides.nec.edu/az.php), not Google.   Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs. Do Not Doublespace.

2) Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least five sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.

1. Describe Digital Literacy (how to know what is real on the web). 

2. None of these people exist. What does this mean to you?

3. Why is Wikipedia more reliable than a paper encyclopedia?

4. How useful are crowd sources answers?

5. What are some drawbacks to crowd sourced answers?

6. Do people generally utilize the diversity of sources on the Internet effectively?

7. How reliant are we and how reliant should we be on getting our news from social media?

8. How do humans remain vigilant when we turn over authority to computers? Have you tried to navigate without gps?

9. If models are simplifications or reality, why do we rely on them?

10. Why was this model, used by Amazon for hiring, wrong?

11. Why did Skynet declare war on the human race?

3) The purpose of this assignment is to pick a topic for your research project. The topic should be of graduate level not a survey. Investigate an important question. 

Your Research Project will be a presentation on some aspect of the surveillance state.  Do a five source annotated bibliography/reference list on the subject. There should be two annotations for each source. In the first write a paragraph of at least five sentences summarizing the thesis of the article. In the second write a paragraph of at least five sentences summarizing your reflections on the thesis of the article. You should do a deep dive into a topic. Do not do a survey. Make use of academic references such as you can find in the Danforth LIbrary research databases 

Use at least five sources.

Copying without attribution or the use of spinbot or other word substitution software will result in a grade of 0. 

Short excerpt on the Surveillance State :

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4) Discuss in 500 words your opinion on what lessons should be learned from the 737 Max 8 crashes. 

Use at least three sources. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library(https://libguides.nec.edu/az.php), not Google.   Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs. Do Not Doublespace.

Copying without attribution or the use of spinbot or other word substitution software will result in a grade of 0. 

5) Your Research Project on the surveillance state consists of two parts:

1 a Powerpoint presentation consisting of at least 12 slides not including title and references.

2. 750 word research  paper with at least 3 sources. There should be no lists. Write in essay format not outline format. Include a meaningful title.

Do not double space.

You must include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosing the copied words in quotation marks and cited in-line. 

There should be no lists – bulleted, numbered or otherwise. 

Write in essay format with coherent paragraphs not in outline format. Distribute your quotes among the paragraphs.

The topic must be appropriate for graduate level. Find a topic that we covered in the course and dig deeper or find something that will help you in your work or in a subject area of interest related to the course topic. Use academically appropriate resources which you can find in the Danforth Library Research Databases.( https://www.nec.edu/students-faculty-staff/library-danforth/research-help/databases-help/)

6) Do a bit of research on penetration testing techniques. Investigate and document the following

· Five network penetration testing techniques

· Advantages and disadvantages of each

· One notable social engineering test

· Possible negative implications of penetration tesing

Please write between 300 words

7) Prepare a final project on a web application security topic. The primary deliverables for the project will be a paper and and also a presentation “Topic : White Hat Hacking”, Include a short paragraph describing your project and how you intend to research it. 

· Week 11. Submit final project.

· Week 12. Submit a brief abstract describing your final project.

Week 13. Submit final project materials.

o 500-700 word, double spaced, written in APA format, showing sources and a bibliography

p4

 You should create one Java file for each problem and save them all in one folder. Compress the folder as a .zip file and submit it here. Please name your .zip file as P4-Last Name-First Nam.zip. For example, P4-Smith-John.zip. 

  • A Word document containing the algorithms and the screenshots of the running programs for all of the five problems. Please name your Word document as P4-Last Name-First Name.docx or .doc. For example, P4-Smit

Consider the following problems, design the algorithms that would solve them, and then implement the algorithm in Java.

You are free to choose between writing pseudo-code or drawing flowcharts. Make sure to include screenshots of your running programs. You can take screenshots using PrintScreen of the console window in which you run the program. Put your algorithm and the screenshots together in a Word document.

Problem 1:

Write a program that reads the ages of three persons from the user, and decides who is the oldest, and who the youngest person is.

Problem 2:

Write a program that reads in the name and salary of an employee. Here the salary will denote an hourly wage, such as $9.25. Then ask how many hours the employee worked in the past week. Be sure to accept fractional hours. Compute the pay. Any overtime work (over 40 hours per week) is paid at 150 percent of the regular wage. Print a paycheck for the employee.

Problem 3:

The original US income tax of 1913 was quite simple. The tax was:

  • 1 percent on the first $50,000
  • 2 percent on the amount over $50,000 up to $75,000
  • 3 percent on the amount over $75,000 up to $100,000
  • 4 percent on the amount over $100,000 up to $250,000
  • 5 percent on the amount over $250,000 up to $500,000
  • 6 percent on the amount over $500,000.

There was no separate schedule for single or married taxpayers. Write a program that computes the income tax according to this schedule.

Problem 4:

Write a program asks the user to enter a month (1 for January, 2 for February, and so on) and then prints the number of days in the month. For February, print “28 or 29 days”.

For example:

Enter a month: 5
30 days

Do not use a separate if/else branch for each month. Use Boolean operators.

Problem 5:

A year with 366 days is called a leap year. Leap years are necessary to keep the calendar synchronized with the sun because the earth revolves around the sun once every 365.25 days. Actually, that figure is not entirely precise, and for all dates after 1582 the Gregorian corrections apply. Usually years that are divisible by 4 are leap years, for example 1996. However, years that are divisible by 100 (for example 1900) are not leap years, but years that are divisible by 400 are leap years (for example 2000). Write a program that asks the user for a year and computes whether that year is a leap year. Use a single if statement and Boolean operators.

Submission

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