Computer Science Homework Help

Part 1: Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least five sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.

1. With all the stories about millions and millions of bytes of personal data having been exposed, why is their still any faith at all in the Internet?

2. How has the term hacking changed meaning over the years?

3. What is the most dangerous hacker tool?

4. From the news: How were NSA’s hacker tools compromised?

5. What was the vulnerability in the Target Breach?

6. What do you think of hactivism?

7. How did Stuxnet work?

8. What was the Arpanet?

9. Deep brain stimulation is a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Medical devices such as these are now becoming accessible through the web. Consider the dangers (threat surface)?

10. What is the Red Team?

Part 2: Complete your answers in 3-4 sentences. Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.

8.1 What is the difference between RFC 5321 and RFC 5322?

8.2 What are the SMTP and MIME standards?

8.3 What is the difference between a MIME content type and a MIME transfer encoding?

8.4 Briefly explain base64 encoding.

8.5 Why is base64 conversion useful for an e-mail application?

8.6 What is S/MIME?

8.7 What are the four principal services provided by S/MIME?

8.8 What is the utility of a detached signature?

8.9 What is DKIM?