Cybersecurity

Identity Theft - A Global Crime Wave in Cyberspace

• Identity theft refers to the illegal possession of another person’s private account numbers and those numbers for fraudulent purposes, stealing personal information and credentials to commit fraud. 👮‍♂👮‍♀🚔 weyt a minute kapeng maiinit

• A criminal steals your personal information and uses it to impersonate you, looking to steal your money, data, and other personal assets.

Ways to combat identity theft

• Increasing security databases in government and corporate sector

  • database security - mechanisms that protect the database against intentional or accidental threats

    • it includes:

      1. hardware

      2. software

      3. people

      4. data

    • the importance of database security grows due to the increasing amount of crucial corporate data being stored on the computer

  • threats - any situation or event that may adversely affect a system and consequently the organization

    • outcomes to avoid:

      1. theft and fraud

      2. loss of confidentiality

      3. loss of privacy

      4. loss of integrity

      5. loss of availability

    • computer-based countermeasures include:

      1. authorization - granting/authenticating of a right or privilege to enable a subject to have legitimate access to a database system

         • authentication - a mechanism that determines whether if the user is who they claim to be

         • privilege - right granted by one user to allow an another user or group to access a database system

      2. views - a virtual table that does not necessarily exist in the database but can be produced upon request by a particular user at the time of request

      3. backup and recovery - process of periodically taking a copy of database and log file onto offline storage media

      4. integrity - prevents data from becoming invalid, and hence giving misleading or incorrect results

      5. encryption - encoding the data by a special algorithm that renders the data unreadable by any program without decryption key

      6. redundant array of independent disks (RAID) - a set of array of physical disk drives that appear to the database user (and programmed as if they form one large physical storage)

         • stripping - spreading data blocks across multiple disks

         • parity - additional data used to re-create data

Transhumanism

• Transhumanism is a growing social movement that advocates the ethical use of technologies to enhance human capabilities and also using technology to eliminate aging and enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.

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