Hiring a criminal hacker Answer these two questions after you read about Frank A
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Hiring a criminal hacker
Answer these two questions after you read about Frank Agagnale, the hacker in Catch Me If You Can.
a. Why do companies hire the perpetrators as consultants? Is this a good idea?
b. Suppose you are the CEO of a company. Would YOU hire Frank as a security consultant? What are the ethical considerations?
c. Did you see the movie Catch Me If You Can?
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Consider these questions relating to the MBTA case, and answer all
a. Are the students' actions legal?
b. Are the students' actions ethical?
Also, what is DEFCON? Do you want to attend?
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Five Reasons Companies Hire Consultants
consulting can be a high income generator for independent professionals. They're often brought in by a client when the client's employees need some "extra help" or more specialized expertise. Consultants come from many fields, including law, management, IT and marketing. Yet however diverse their interests, consultants are routinely hired for the same general reasons. Here are five reasons why a company might hire a consultant:
1. Training.
Sometimes, especially in areas involving new technologies, a company's management team or staff will need to be trained. They may need to learn a new software package, or even a new way of thinking. It's often much more cost-effective for a company to hire an outside expert, a consultant, to train them rather than putting someone on the full-time payroll.
2. Objective Review of Business Practices.
When things just aren't going according to plan, a company's management team isn't always the most objective source of information. It's difficult for anyone to admit what they're doing wrong, or sometimes to even figure that out. That's where consultants come in. They can be more objective in their findings, since they don't have anything directly at stake with the company's success or failure. The consultant is generally brought in to identify the problem, and to help the company's management team work out a resolution strategy.
3. Objective Review of Products or Services
Companies can't always keep highly specialized experts on staff to evaluate every product or service they want to offer. It often makes more sense to hire an outside consultant. Some examples would be to hire a Marketing consultant to carry out market research for a new product, an IT consultant to fully evaluate and independently test a new software product, or to hire a legal consultant to answer legal concerns in regards to a new product or service being offered.
4. Internal Problems.
Hiring consultants for internal problem resolution is routine. Examples could range from having a consultant handle recruitment for new company positions to handling major disputes between employees, management or even stockholders. The consultant would serve as an unbiased party whose interest is to reach a mutally agreeable solution to a problem, large or small.
5. Crisis Resolution.
The three types of consultants most likely to be hired to handle a company crisis are legal consultants, public relations consultants, and sometimes management consultants. This type of consulting work is reserved for major crises within a company or organization, such that current staff alone wouldn't be able to contain the situation adequately. It could range from a major lawsuit, to an explosion or other disaster at the company, to finding out that a company's product is unsafe and needs to be re-called. These consultants are basically called in for "damage control."
It's easier to make a living as a consultant in your industry when you know all of your selling points. Keep in mind the various reasons companies are looking to hire consultants in the first place, and you may just find more consulting opportunities presenting themselves than you'd thought possible. The key is in knowing what benefit you, as a consultant, can provide to potential clients, and then marketing those skills and abilities effectively.
b.yeah, will hire Frank as a security consultant if i am the CEO of a company
c. yes, i watched catch me if you can
On 8 August 2008, the MBTA filed suit seeking a temporary restraining order, both to prevent the students from presenting or otherwise discussing their findings until its vendors had sufficient time to correct defects and to seek monetary damages. The motion was granted on August 9 by Judge Douglas Woodlock[17] and while the students appeared as scheduled, they did not speak or present at the convention.[18][19] However, the injunction not only garnered more popular and press attention to the case, but the sensitive information in the students' presentation became even more widely disseminated afterwards since it had been both distributed to conference organizers in the weeks before the injunction as well as inadvertently posted to the district court's public website as exhibits to the MBTA's original complaint.[20][21]
The MBTA retained Holland & Knight to represent them and contended that under the norm of responsible disclosure, the students did not provide sufficient information or time before the presentation for the MBTA to correct the flaw and further alleged that the students transmitted programs to cause damage to (or attempted to transmit and damage) MBTA computers in an amount in excess of $5,000 under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Furthermore, it was contended that this damage constituted a threat to public health and safety and the MBTA would sufferirreparable harm if the students were allowed to present; that the students converted and trespassed on MBTA property; that the students illegally profited from their activities; and that MIT itself was negligent in supervising the undergraduates and notifying the MBTA.[22]
The MIT students retained the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fish & Richardson to represent them and asserted that the term "transmission" in the CFAA cannot be broadly construed as any form of communication and the restraining order is a prior restraint infringing their First Amendment right to protected free speech about academic research.[23][24] An 11 August letter published by 11 prominent computer scientists supported the defendants' assertions and claimed that the precedent of the gag order will "stifle research efforts and weaken academic computing research programs. In turn, we fear the shadow of the law's ambiguities will reduce our ability to contribute to industrial research in security technologies at the heart of our information infrastructure."[25]
On 19 August, the judge rejected the MBTA's request to extend the restraining order and the TRO likewise expired, thus granting the students the right to discuss and present their findings.
The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces.[1] The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and unified and specified combatant commands.[2] It prescribes five graduated levels of readiness (or states of alert) for the U.S. military, and increase in severity from DEFCON 5 (least severe) to DEFCON 1 (most severe) to match varying military situations.[1]
DEFCONs are a subsystem of a series of Alert Conditions, or LERTCONs, that also includes Emergency Conditions (EMERGCONs).[3] There is no single DEFCON status for the country, and in fact different branches of the military can be at different levels of DEFCON at the same time. DEFCONs should not be confused with similar systems used by the U.S. military, such as Force Protection Conditions (FPCONS), Readiness Conditions (REDCONS), Information Operations Condition (INFOCON) and its future replacement Cyber Operations Condition (CYBERCON),[4] andWatch Conditions (WATCHCONS), or the former Homeland Security Advisory System used by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
yes, i do wanna attend DEFCON and serve
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