Abia Polytechnic University Website and Cloud cyber attacks Paper

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Research and find two articles. One article must be concerning a Website cyber-breach and the another must be a Cloud cyber-breach. Prepare a paper of at least 2000 words describing these two incidents. At a minimum, the follow items must be met:

1. Ensure you site the two articles

2. A synopsis of what happen

3. What vulnerability was exploited

4. Who or what organization was responsible

5. What was the impact (physical, market, financial, etc)

6. Has there been a recovery

7. What efforts were used in the recovery

8. Any other interesting topic(s) or piece(s) of information that you may find interesting

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Introduction
Website cyber- breach and Cloud cyber-breach are very closely related since they both involve a
situation where a database is hacked by unauthorized users and important information stolen.
Body
Cloud cyber-breach refers to a situation whereby a company's cloud database is accessed by
unauthorized person/persons with the intention to cause havoc to the company by ruining their
reputation.
One of the largest credit reporting company Equifax is an example of a website cyber-breach.
When the company was hacked, one of the vast credit reporting and intrusion monitoring
companies whereby customer's names, usernames, social security numbers among others were
stolen raising the concern of identity theft for over more than 145 million users.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is seen that both the affected companies have faced a huge financial and market
loss that was as a result of security breaches.


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Website and Cloud cyber attacks
Website cyber- breach and Cloud cyber-breach are very closely related since they both
involve a situation where a database is hacked by unauthorized users and important information
stolen. There are a number of consequences that can happen in case the two cyberattacks happens;
for instance, essential data can be lost by an individual or a company, denial of service, data goes
missing or altered among others which both cause havoc to the persons affected by the breach.
Since both cases are hard to avoid, companies and users alike need to update their password
regularly, use strong passwords that involve a collection of characters and numbers, avoid
recycling their passwords and even hire experts whose work will be to monitor the company's
system for threats.
Website cyber-breach
Website cyber-breach involves a website company being breached therefore causing
undetectable traffic on the network, serves being controlled by unauthorized users thus causing a
denial of service, the company's homepage is changed and its data being altered or even deleted
and traffic declining because search engines issuing warnings about the site denying users the
privilege accessing it.
OneLogin Cloud cyber-breach
Cloud cyber-breach refers to a situation whereby a company's cloud database is accessed
by unauthorized person/persons with the intention to cause havoc to the company by ruining their
reputation. This involves the hacker or cyber-criminal accessing the information on the database
that includes; customer's personal details, their credit reports, their security credentials and the
company's sensitive details and using the information against its victims (Goud, 2017). The

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hackers can easily use the customers' details to create fake identities in order to access their
finances or commit crimes. Cloud cyber-breach can cause bankruptcy to the affect...


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