Nadia Simpson

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Short Research Paper 1

A Deep Dive into the 2012 LinkedIn Data Breach: Vulnerabilities, Exploited Threats, and Lessons for CybersecurityNadia SimpsonOld Dominion UniversityCYSE300Malik Gladden9/10/2023 On June 6, 2012, LinkedIn, one of the world’s largest professional networking platforms, became the target of a massive cybersecurity breach that compromised the data of millions of its users. This data breach, which primarily …

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Reflection

After years of hard work and perseverance, I am finally preparing to graduate from ODU with a bachelor’s of science in cybersecurity. However, my journey to this port in my life has not been easy. When I transferred to ODU in 2022, I faced one of the challenging periods of my life. I was suffering …

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Assignment 6-File Permissions

Step 1. Create three groups- employee, payroll, and admin. (You may refer to the slides forweek-4 – Group Management) Step 2. Create three user accounts with a specified home directory for Sophia, Olivia, andEmma. Set the primary group for Sophia, Olivia, and Emma to “employee”, “payroll”, and“admin”, respectively. And change their login shell to /bin/bash. …

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Assignment Lab4

CYSE 270: Linux System for CybersecurityAssignment: Lab 4–Group and User Accounts Task A –User Account management (8 * 5 =40 points) Open a terminal window in VM and execute the correct command to display the user accountinformation (including the login shell and home directory) for the current user using grep. 2. Execute the correct command …

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Assignment 1

Step-1: Install Hypervisor Oracle Virtual Box or VMware, if you are using Windows or MacBook -Intel based computer/laptop       You may also use this link to download VM in virtual box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ9ysibH768

CS462 Term Report: Colonial Pipeline

CS462 Blog Post Background of Colonial Pipeline The Colonial Pipeline Company is a critical entity in the U.S. energy sector, which operates the largest refined products pipeline system in the nation. The company was founded in Alpharetta, Georgia in 1961 and the pipeline was fully operational in 1964. The Colonial Pipeline supplies fuel to most …

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Homework 12

Short Answer Questions (short answers should generally be at least three to four sentences in length. However, it is important to be as concise as possible when responding.) or you may choose to Upload a Two-Minute Audio or Video recording to answer the following questions. Listen to “Episode #86: The LinkedIn Incident of the DarkNet …

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Homework 11

Short Answer Questions (short answers should generally be at least three to four sentences in length. However, it is important to be as concise as possible when responding.) or you may choose to Upload a Two-Minute Audio or Video recording to answer the following questions.  Module 9 & 10  One of the purposes of using …

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Homework 10

Short Answer Questions (short answers should generally be at least three to four sentences in length. However, it is important to be as concise as possible when responding.) or you may choose to Upload a Two-Minute Audio or Video recording to answer the following questions.  Module 7 & 8 1. What are the main problems related to fragmented files? The …

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Homework 9

Short Answer Questions (short answers should generally be at least three to four sentences in length. However, it is important to be as concise as possible when responding.) or you may choose to Upload a Two- Minute Audio or Video recording to answer the following questions.Listen to “Episode #29: Stuxnet of the DarkNet Diaries podcast …

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