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F-1 Attachment F ACCESSING the FCC NETWORK USING WINDOWS
Attachment F ACCESSING THE FCC NETWORK USING WINDOWS 3.1 OR 3.11 This attachment describes how to access the FCC Network from a system that is running the Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 operating system. This involves using the FCC-supplied Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Dialer. This attachment summarizes the hardware and software required for the PPP Dialer, then describes the procedures for performing the following tasks: C Downloading the Dialer files from the Internet or the FCC Bulletin Board C Extracting the Dialer from the downloaded files C Installing the Dialer application C Configuring PPP C Establishing a PPP connection The attachment also describes how to troubleshoot and uninstall the PPP Dialer application, and tells how to get help from the FCC. Conventions The instructions in this attachment use the following typographical conventions: bold Represents objects on the screen that you click with the mouse pointer, including buttons, Internet links, icons, tabs, menu items (e.g., Cancel button, Auctions link, Save option in the File menu). italic Represents field names or areas of a screen (e.g., Licensee Name field, Applicant Information area of a screen). bold italic Represents characters that you must type exactly as they appear in the instructions. For example, if you are instructed to type http://www.fcc.gov, you should type all of the characters shown in bold italic exactly as they are printed. SMALL CAPS Represents keys on the keyboard (e.g., ENTER, CTRL, ESC). F-1 Hardware and Software Requirements Applicants who want to connect to the FCC Network using the FCC PPP Dialer will need the following hardware and software. -
Interaction Dialer Installation and Configuration Guide
Interaction Dialer Installation and Configuration Guide 2018 R4 Last updated June 6, 2018 (See Change Log for summary of changes.) Abstract This document explains how to install Interaction Dialer. Interaction Dialer is a set of client/server extensions that add predictive dialing and campaign management capabilities to the PureConnect platform. iii Copyright and Trademark Information Interactive Intelligence, Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Center, Interaction Administrator, Interaction Attendant, Interaction Client, Interaction Designer, Interaction Tracker, Interaction Recorder, Interaction Mobile Office, Interaction Center Platform, Interaction Monitor, Interaction Optimizer, and the “Spirograph” logo design are registered trademarks of Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. Customer Interaction Center, EIC, Interaction Fax Viewer, Interaction Server, ION, Interaction Voicemail Player, Interactive Update, Interaction Supervisor, Interaction Migrator, and Interaction Screen Recorder are trademarks of Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. The foregoing products are ©1997-2017 Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Interaction Dialer and Interaction Scripter are registered trademarks of Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. The foregoing products are ©2000-2017 Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Messaging Interaction Center and MIC are trademarks of Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. The foreg oing p rodu cts are ©2001-2017 Genesys -
System Center Endpoint Protection for Mac
System Center Endpoint Protection for Mac Installation Manual and User Guide Contents Context menu 19 System Center Endpoint Protection 3 System requirements 3 Advanced user 20 Import and export settings 20 Installation 4 Import settings 20 Typical installation 4 Export settings 20 Proxy server setup 20 Custom installation 4 Removable media blocking 20 Uninstallation 5 21 Beginners guide 6 Glossary Types of infiltrations 21 User interface 6 Viruses 21 Checking operation of the system 6 Worms 21 What to do if the program does not work properly 7 Trojan horses 21 Work with System Center Endpoint Adware 22 Spyware 22 Protection 8 Potentially unsafe applications 22 Antivirus and antispyware protection 8 Potentially unwanted applications 22 Real-time file system protection 8 Real-time Protection setup 8 Scan on (Event triggered scanning) 8 Advanced scan options 8 Exclusions from scanning 8 When to modify Real-time protection configuration 9 Checking Real-time protection 9 What to do if Real-time protection does not work 9 On-demand computer scan 10 Type of scan 10 Smart scan 10 Custom scan 11 Scan targets 11 Scan profiles 11 Engine parameters setup 12 Objects 12 Options 12 Cleaning 13 Extensions 13 Limits 13 Others 13 An infiltration is detected 14 Updating the program 14 Update setup 15 How to create update tasks 15 Upgrading to a new build 15 Scheduler 16 Purpose of scheduling tasks 16 Creating new tasks 16 Creating user-defined task 17 Quarantine 17 Quarantining files 17 Restoring from Quarantine 17 Log files 18 Log maintenance 18 Log filtering 18 User interface 18 Alerts and notifications 19 Alerts and notifications advanced setup 19 Privileges 19 System Center Endpoint Protection As the popularity of Unix-based operating systems increases, malware authors are developing more threats to target Mac users. -
Recommended Practice for Securing Control Systems Modems
Recommended Practice for Securing Control System Modems January 2008 ABSTRACT This paper addresses an often overlooked “backdoor” into critical infrastructure control systems created by modem connections. A modem’s connection to the public telephone system is similar to a corporate network connection to the Internet. By tracing typical attack paths into the system, this paper provides the reader with an analysis of the problem and then guides the reader through methods to evaluate existing modem security. Following the analysis, a series of methods for securing modems is provided. These methods are correlated to well-known networking security methods. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This document was developed for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide guidance for modem security for control systems. The author team consisted of subject matter expertise from the Idaho National Laboratory (James Davidson & Jason Wright) For additional information or comments, please send inquires to the Control Systems Security Program at [email protected]. iv CONTENTS ABSTRACT.................................................................................................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ........................................................................................................................... iv ACRONYMS..............................................................................................................................................vii 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. -
Digital Blackmail As an Emerging Tactic 2016
September 9 DIGITAL BLACKMAIL AS AN EMERGING TACTIC 2016 Digital Blackmail (DB) represents a severe and growing threat to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and government Examining entities. The rapid increase in the use of DB such as Strategies ransomware; the proliferation of variants and growth in their ease of use and acquisition by cybercriminals; weak defenses; Public and and the anonymous nature of the money trail will only increase Private Entities the scale of future attacks. Private sector, non-governmental organization (NGO), and government cybersecurity experts Can Pursue to were brought together by the Office of the Director of National Contain Such Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security to determine emerging tactics and countermeasures associated Attacks with the threat of DB. In this paper, DB is defined as illicitly acquiring or denying access to sensitive data for the purpose of affecting victims’ behaviors. Threats may be made of lost revenue, the release of intellectual property or sensitive personnel/client information, the destruction of critical data, or reputational damage. For clarity, this paper maps DB activities to traditional blackmail behaviors and explores methods and tools, exploits, protection measures, whether to pay or not pay the ransom, and law enforcement (LE) and government points of contact for incident response. The paper also examines the future of the DB threat. Digital Blackmail as an Emerging Tactic Team Members Name Organization Caitlin Bataillon FBI Lynn Choi-Brewer -
Contents in This Issue
APRIL 2006 The International Publication on Computer Virus Prevention, Recognition and Removal CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE 2 COMMENT LEAP YEAR Problems for AV vendors: some thoughts Although the hype surrounding OSX/Leap-A far outweighs the number of reported infections, the 3 NEWS virus does present a number of new ideas that we may well see again. Glyn Kennington investigates. More updating woes page 4 Spy couple sentenced ‘Real’ computer virus MR AND MRS ROOTKIT Viewers of the German version of the Mr. and Mrs. Smith movie DVD were surprised to find a little 3 VIRUS PREVALENCE TABLE more than they had bargained for on their DVDs thanks to the presence of a new protection system. VIRUS ANALYSES The protection software was found to be using 4 A small step for Mac OS X rootkit-like techniques to hide itself. Elia Florio discusses the security issues associated with the 6 Not a feeble attempt Settec DRM case. page 10 10 FEATURE LINUX COMPARATIVE Stories from the DRM world: the Settec case The main competition amongst products this month seemed to be to determine 13 COMPARATIVE REVIEW which could have the least useful Red Hat Linux 9 documentation – find out which products redeemed themselves by achieving a VB 100%. page 13 20 END NOTES & NEWS This month: anti-spam news & events and Sorin Mustaca takes an indepth look at PayPal phishing. ISSN 1749-7027 COMMENT ‘I see drowning in • Analysing proactive technologies, including heuristics and behaviour blockers so as to penetrate new malware as systems despite these barriers. one of the main • Interfering with anti-virus solutions, for instance, by issues facing the blocking automatic updates. -
Cybercrime and Cyber-Security Issues Associated with China: Some Economic and Institutional Considerations
Cybercrime and Cyber-security Issues Associated with China: Some Economic and Institutional Considerations By: Nir Kshetri Kshetri, Nir (2013). “Cybercrime and Cyber-security Issues Associated with China: Some Economic and Institutional Considerations" Electronic Commerce Research 13 (1): 41-69. The original publication is available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10660-013-9105-4 ***Reprinted with permission. No further reproduction is authorized without written permission from Springer Verlag. This version of the document is not the version of record. Figures and/or pictures may be missing from this format of the document. *** Abstract: China is linked to cybercrimes of diverse types, scales, motivations and objectives. The Chinese cyberspace thus provides an interesting setting for the study of cybercrimes. In this paper, we first develop typology, classification and characterization of cybercrimes associated with China, which would help us understand modus operandi, structures, profiles and personal characteristics of cybercrime organizations and potential perpetrators, the signature aspects and goals of cybercrimes, the nature and backgrounds of the criminal groups involved, characteristics of potential targets for criminal activities, the nature and extent of the damage inflicted on the victims and the implications to and responses elicited from various actors. We then examine this issue from developmental and international political economy angles. Specifically, we delineate salient features of China’s politics, culture, human capital and technological issues from the standpoint of cyber-security and analyze emerging international relations and international trade issues associated with this phenomenon. Our analysis indicates that China’s global ambition, the shift in the base of regime legitimacy from MarxLeninism to economic growth, the strong state and weak civil society explain the distinctive pattern of the country’s cyber-attack and cyber- security landscapes. -
Information Security Primer from Social Engineering to SQL Injection...And Everything Beginning with P
Information Security Primer From Social Engineering to SQL Injection...and Everything Beginning with P PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See http://code.pediapress.com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:14:59 UTC Contents Articles It Begins with S 1 Social engineering (security) 1 Spyware 7 SQL injection 26 Bonus Material 34 Password cracking 34 References Article Sources and Contributors 41 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 43 Article Licenses License 44 1 It Begins with S Social engineering (security) Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access; in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim. Social engineering techniques and terms All social engineering techniques are based on specific attributes of human decision-making known as cognitive biases.[1] These biases, sometimes called "bugs in the human hardware," are exploited in various combinations to create attack techniques, some of which are listed here: Pretexting Pretexting is the act of creating and using an invented scenario (the pretext) to persuade a targeted victim to release information or perform an action and is typically done over the telephone. It is more than a simple lie as it most often involves some prior research or set up and the use of pieces of known information (e.g. for impersonation: date of birth, Social Security Number, last bill amount) to establish legitimacy in the mind of the target. -
2016 ICIT Ransomware Report
Expert research contributed by the following ICIT Fellows: Danyetta Magana (ICIT Fellow – President, Covenant Security Solutions) Igor Baikolov (ICIT Fellow – Chief Scientist, Securonix) Brian Contos (ICIT Fellow – Vice President & Chief Security Strategist, Securonix) John Menkhart (ICIT Fellow – Vice President, Federal, Securonix) George Kamis, (ICIT Fellow – CTO, Forcepoint Federal) Stacey Winn (ICIT Fellow - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Public Sector, Forcepoint) Thomas Boyden (ICIT Fellow – Managing Director, GRA Quantum) Kevin Chalker (ICIT Fellow – Founder & CEO, GRA Quantum) John Sabin (ICIT Fellow – Director of Network Security & Architecture, GRA Quantum) 1 Contents Introduction: .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Origins of Ransomware: ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Overview of Ransomware: ................................................................................................................................... 8 Types of Ransomware: .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Locker Ransomware: ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Crypto Ransomware: ..................................................................................................................................... -
Cybercrime Presentation
Cybercrime ‐ Marshall Area Chamber of October 10, 2017 Commerce CYBERCRIME Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce October 10, 2017 ©2017 RSM US LLP. All Rights Reserved. About the Presenter Jeffrey Kline − 27 years of information technology and information security experience − Master of Science in Information Systems from Dakota State University − Technology and Management Consulting with RSM − Located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Rapid Assessment® • Data Storage SME • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure • Microsoft Windows Networking • Virtualization Platforms ©2017 RSM US LLP. All Rights Reserved. RSM US LLP 1 Cybercrime ‐ Marshall Area Chamber of October 10, 2017 Commerce Content - Outline • History and introduction to cybercrimes • Common types and examples of cybercrime • Social Engineering • Anatomy of the attack • What can you do to protect yourself • Closing thoughts ©2017 RSM US LLP. All Rights Reserved. INTRODUCTION TO CYBERCRIME ©2017 RSM US LLP. All Rights Reserved. RSM US LLP 2 Cybercrime ‐ Marshall Area Chamber of October 10, 2017 Commerce Cybercrime Cybercrime is any type of criminal activity that involves the use of a computer or other cyber device. − Computers used as the tool − Computers used as the target ©2017 RSM US LLP. All Rights Reserved. Long History of Cybercrime John Draper uses toy whistle from Cap’n Crunch cereal 1971 box to make free phone calls Teller at New York Dime Savings Bank uses computer to 1973 funnel $1.5 million into his personal bank account First convicted felon of a cybercrime – “Captain Zap” 1981 who broke into AT&T computers UCLA student used a PC to break into the Defense 1983 Department’s international communication system Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and 1984 Abuse Act was passed ©2017 RSM US LLP. -
The Android Platform Security Model∗
The Android Platform Security Model∗ RENÉ MAYRHOFER, Google and Johannes Kepler University Linz JEFFREY VANDER STOEP, Google CHAD BRUBAKER, Google NICK KRALEVICH, Google Android is the most widely deployed end-user focused operating system. With its growing set of use cases encompassing communication, navigation, media consumption, entertainment, finance, health, and access to sensors, actuators, cameras, or microphones, its underlying security model needs to address a host of practical threats in a wide variety of scenarios while being useful to non-security experts. The model needs to strike a difficult balance between security, privacy, and usability for end users, assurances for app developers, and system performance under tight hardware constraints. While many of the underlying design principles have implicitly informed the overall system architecture, access control mechanisms, and mitigation techniques, the Android security model has previously not been formally published. This paper aims to both document the abstract model and discuss its implications. Based on a definition of the threat model and Android ecosystem context in which it operates, we analyze how the different security measures in past and current Android implementations work together to mitigate these threats. There are some special cases in applying the security model, and we discuss such deliberate deviations from the abstract model. CCS Concepts: • Security and privacy → Software and application security; Domain-specific security and privacy architectures; Operating systems security; • Human-centered computing → Ubiquitous and mobile devices. Additional Key Words and Phrases: Android, security, operating system, informal model 1 INTRODUCTION Android is, at the time of this writing, the most widely deployed end-user operating system. -
What Is Spyware - ALL Spyware Definition in One Place
What is Spyware - ALL Spyware definition in one place Adware Adware is any type of advertising-supported software that will play, display, or download advertisements automatically on a user's computer once the software has been installed on it or while the application is in use. Some adware can also be spyware due to its privacy-invasive characteristics. BackDoor A backdoor in a computer system (or cryptosystem or algorithm) is a means of circumventing regular authentication, securing remote computer access, accessing plaintext, etc., while remaining to be undetected. A backdoor may appear to be an installed program or a modification to a program or hardware device that's already installed. Baiting Baiting uses tangible media and relies on the curiosity or greed of the victim. Baiting involves an attacker leaving a malware infected media such as a CD ROM or USB flash drive in a public place where it is likely to be found, appearing to be legitimate and appealing, and waits to be used by the victim. Baiting is easy to perform as in this example where an attacker might create a malware loaded CD with a company logo on it, and the words "Company Reorganization Plan" on the front. The media is left on the lobby floor of the targeted company. An employee could find it and then insert it into a computer to satisfy their curiosity. By inserting the CD into a computer to view its contents, the user unknowingly installs malware on it, allowing the attacker access to his computer and possibly, the company's computer network.