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Defend the website

Defend the website

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Defend the website

- [Instructor] Organizations put security measures in place to prevent unauthorized people from obtaining access to their resources on the network, such as the corporate database, which holds data on the organization, operations, and the strategic plan. The website may be involved in one of several attacks to get to the database. Attacks that include denial of service, SQL injection, or cross-site scripting. In order to gain access to the data servers to steal confidential information. In the US and in other countries, a hacker can be liable under the terms of various laws. I'm at this website, the US Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and we see various indictments from computer crime. You can take a look at this and as you see, it goes back several years. You can select one and drill down, and find more information. For example, this one, a California man arrested for hacking websites. It will tell you the details of the case and the…

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