7/23/2019 Assignment1 Resubmission Dinesh Kasu
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Dineshreddy Kasu CS7850-Assignment1 [email protected]
Part1: Privacy Breach
In may 2014, [1]eBay-the American online auction site announced
that its network database was
hacked .The ebay said that customers' names, encrypted
passwords, email addresses, physical addresses,birth date, and
phone numbers were comprised in this hack. So, it urged all its
million users to change the
account passwords and also more positively informed that
customers' financial information was not
stolen. The ebay technical team had a regress testing on its
corporation database and found the reason
behind the cyber attack. The ebay security team informed that
the cyber attackers had stolen the login
credentials of few employees and thus, they got the access to
the ebay's corporate network.
The security researcher (Jorder jones) looked into this issue
[2] and found that hacker installed the
java scripts into the server page, where customers are generally
bidding. Thus, they tried to hijack the
customers data to get from the browser cookies. Finally, ebay
confirmed that there are no illegal
transaction occurrence yet and informed users to change the
passwords immediately.
Reference: [1]
http://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-hacked-requests-all-users-change-passwords/[2]
http://thehackernews.com/2014/05/worst-day-for-ebay-multiple-flaws-leave.html
Part2: Beneficial Use Case:-
The Unique Identification Authority of India[1] started a
project called 'Aadhar'. The Aadhar is a 12
digit unique number assigned to each citizen of india.
Currently, there are many identity cards in india
like driving license, passport, voter id, pan card and ration
cards. Due to these multiple identities, there
are high chances of multiple data .So indian government wants to
eliminate these multiple identities and
setup a common card to emphasize the citizenship. As per the
Aadhar project, indian government takes
the citizen's name, gender, birth date, address details, phone
numbers, fingerprint pattern, iris pattern and
face model and stores them into database. They checks this
database while giving driving license,
selling/purchasing property, opening bank account, applying
passport, giving basic commodities to
citizens. This checking process makes no duplication of
information and it is also called as anti-corruption
tool. The aadhar data is being updated up-to-date from the
resources. The indian government cops also
use this aadhar database to match with the criminal fingerprints
and hence, they can catch them so easily.
Reference: [1] http://uidai.gov.in/
Part3:Publicly Available Dataset:-
The Missouri Accountability Portal[1] contains the publicly
available open datasets related to state
employees salary details. These datasets contain information
about calendar year, agency name, position
title, employee name, and employee's YTD gross pay. This
information is being collected from year
2007.The data on this MAP site is updated each day. This
information is a point of reference to review
how Missouri state money is being spent. Please check the
dataset [2] for the same information for year
2011 and also refer the link [1] for all other years.
Reference: [1]
http://mapyourtaxes.mo.gov/MAP/Download/Default.aspx[2]
https://data.mo.gov/Government/2011-State-Employee-Pay/qkky-mzji
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