Understanding Ransomware Attacks and Prevention

This assignment delves into the significant problems caused by ransomware attacks worldwide. It highlights how these attacks disrupt critical infrastructure like factories, hospitals, and schools, referencing the WannaCry attack as a prime example. The document then outlines preventive measures such as system updates, regular backups, robust antivirus software, and cautious email handling to combat ransomware threats. It concludes by stressing the crucial role of strong internal controls in organizations to mitigate external risks and security breaches.

Running Head: Web News on Computer Security Breaches
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the Web Search Computer Security Breaches..............................................................2
Question 1.............................................................................................................................................2
Question 2.............................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................4
References.............................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction to the Web Search Computer Security Breaches
Web security is also known as the cyber security or the IT security, it tends to provide the
protection on the websites and then to the users applications. The security practitioner’s
deliberate to the several and to the foulest security breaches which indirectly effect to the
users systems. It has become a very common in the web security world. The risk is generally
based on the number of risks or damage been occurred. The breaches are made according to
the unauthorized access to the data, applications, services from the organisation and from the
various servers and mainly affects the networks or the other devices by passing to their
security mechanisms. The security breach is also known as the security violation to the
organisation (Clarke & Youngstein, 2017).
Question 1
The web news for the computer security breaches that occurred in this year has the
major impact that affected the whole organisation:
1. Equifax- It is the global information solutions from which, the company was affected
and had a greater impact of the cyber security. The breach was initially occurred in
the month of July 2017. The company shared, the credit monitoring companies that
have mainly assigned to the website and to the phone lines which mainly affected the
victims and to identify the free theft regarding to the insurance made by the
consumers.
 The major impact arises in the Equifax was:
The primary concern was made regarding the breach, that mainly affected the credit
cards of the consumer names, the existing cards of the users and the consumers was
intentionally being hooked up to pay for that. The major impacts were raised in the
organisation:
1. The credit report of the US customers has been affected on the large scale.
2. The information was not secured on a large scale so it majorly affected in to guard
the information such as the Social security numbers, birth dates of the consumers
and addresses (Crawford & Evans, 2017).
3. The organisation also said that even the data of the Canadian people was also
affected on the large scale so they have to data compromised.
4. There should be sole control over the information regarding the credit been made
by the customer for accessing the details.
5. The websites issues were being raised as it was not working properly so the
problems were being raised when the customers were unable to address the
complaints (Gandhi, 2017).
 Possible Solutions and the Lesson learned from the Equifax Breach
The Equifax is not the key element to takeaway that strengthens the security to
prevent or to overcome from the breach. It can be possible to prevent from the
breaches which has affected to the 100 per cent of all the attacks. The main
impact and the lesson learned from, quickly and precisely accessed to identify

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and make the confirmation regarding to the incident. It requires for
establishing the real-time visibility on overall data, it provide the investigators
who are associated with the main context and the evidence made to determine
the specific information and an unstructured data which was used and shared,
analysis on the data breach affect your business, data should be protected and
time to time updations and recovery of the business quickly.
Question 2
Ransomware Cyber Attack on the Web
The attack was detected in May 2017 was “WannaCry” it was spread to the vast areas of the
countries and affected to the major parts of the world. It basically affected the public utilities
as wells as large number of organisations were victimized by the severe issues of cybercrime.
The ransomware rigorously smashed the certain area of National Health Service Hospitals
and facilities. The ransomware also had the important flaws which mainly involve the
mechanism that had the security experts who performed the operations to effectively kill and
switch to shut down the computers or to stop the adverse impact of the ransomware to the
other networks. Ransomware is the malicious activity occurred in the computer program
which was intentionally attached to the various spam mails, which mainly contained the
important files and folders of the users. It mainly entered and involved through the e-mail
spam, and they encrypted the important files and the essential data which was been kept in
the mail and was demanding the ransom in the form of the digital currencies as well as the
data which is to be paid and was provided for restoring the files and the folders which enables
the accessibility to save the essential and the most important data and the information present
from getting leaked (Graham, 2017). The threats and the malicious activities have been raised
from the attacking to the users system in the huge amount globally. As the malware functions
targeted the computers which were of older versions and were not working on the latest
technologies and tools so as to deal with the attacks and to avoid malicious activities.
 Problems occurred from the Ransomware
The main problems and the areas which were affected from the impact being raised
through the ransomware attack globally i.e.
1. Through the impact from the Ransomware attack it mainly stops the factories,
hospitals, schools etc. worldwide
2. The “Wannacry” attack stopped the performance of the 10k systems, which
mainly stopped the organisations operations worldwide.
3. This network mainly had an impact to easily shut down to the systems.
4. The bigger impact was caused of having the phishing attack on the mails.
5. They affected the genuine and the useful data and the information which was
being placed in the email of the users (LeDuc et al., 2017).
 Overcome and to prevent from the attacks
Several of the computers were being affected from the Ransomeware attacks were
targeted globally. Several organisations felt victimised due to the cyber-attack. It

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basically affected the businesses which ransom the files and the information of an
organisation. To overcome from all the ransome attacks the points are followed:
1. It is essential for the user to maintain and keep the system update routinely or
weekly so as to avoid threats.
2. It is important to take the backup of important file and folder religiously and even
the anti-virus recommends the user to take the back-ups of the system.
3. It is necessary to use the antivirus for constantly monitoring user’s computers
from the potential threats and malicious activities.
4. It alerts that do not open the files and the folders which is being attached in the
mail from an unknown senders. Be selective from opening to the documents and
files (Lee et al, 2017).
Conclusion
It can be easily concluded that the working and implementation of the design and proper
controlling plays a vital role in the overall performance of an organisations. It is essential for
every organisation to overcome form the external risks factors that mainly arises from the
ransomware. It is essential that the company should update and keep on monitoring the
internal controls in the area so as to avoid the security breaches.

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References
Clarke, R., & Youngstein, T. (2017). Cyberattack on Britain’s National Health Service—A
Wake-up Call for Modern Medicine. New England Journal of Medicine.
Crawford, A., & Evans, K. (2017). Crime prevention and community safety (pp. 797-824).
Oxford University Press.
Gandhi, K. A. (2017). Survey on Ransomware: A New Era of Cyber Attack. International
Journal of Computer Applications, 168(3).
Graham, C. (2017). NHS Cyber Attack: Everything You Need to Know about'biggest
Ransomware'Offensive in History. The Telegraph, 20.
LeDuc, R., Peisert, S., Stocks, K., & Welch, V. (2017). The Open Science Cyber Risk Profile
(OSCRP).
Lee, J. K., Moon, S. Y., & Park, J. H. (2017). CloudRPS: a cloud analysis based enhanced
ransomware prevention system. The Journal of Supercomputing, 73(7), 3065-3084.