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Security Breaches And Ransomware | Assignment

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Security Breaches And Ransomware | Assignment

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RUNNING HEAD: SECURITY BREACHES AND RANSOMWARE1SECURITY BREACHES AND RANSOMWAREStudent NameInstitute Name
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SECURITY BREACHES AND RANSOMWARE2ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3THE SCARILY COMMON SCREW-UP THAT EXPOSED 198 MILLION VOTER RECORDS.........................................................................................................................................................3The issue......................................................................................................................................3How and why it occurred.............................................................................................................3Possible solution..........................................................................................................................4Ransomware cyber attack on the web.............................................................................................5Problem........................................................................................................................................5Affected people and how.............................................................................................................6How was the attack carried out?..................................................................................................6Recommendation.........................................................................................................................7Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8Reference.........................................................................................................................................9
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SECURITY BREACHES AND RANSOMWARE3IntroductionThe report will discuss in detail two security breach cases and their impact on people. These two cases are 198 million voter records exposed and Wanncry ransomware cyber attack. THE SCARILY COMMON SCREW-UP THAT EXPOSED 198 MILLION VOTER RECORDSThe issueThis case happened on June 19, 2017 when a huge number of voter data was exposed in differentparts of USA like Mexico and state of Georgia. However, what was even more surprising was that this data was publicly accessible exposing the personal information of over 198 million voters of USA. The data was actually owned by a conservative data based firm called as Deep Root Analytics and the company use to save it on a platform called as Amazon S3 (Newman, 2017). As per the expert reports, it was also discovered that data was exposed to any random person who can found it since it is a part of a clever hacking process with complex internet basedforces. But it was also the part of simple case of missed case of configuration. Even though it cannot be properly considered as a perfect case of hack but it is a case of one of the biggest risk in cyber security for organizations. How and why it occurredThe founders of the Deep Root Analytics found the information that was made accessible to the public like name, address, affiliation with the party and many more. At the same time, criminals coming across such a huge trove of information could have find enormous amount of value with
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