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Write an article on Disaster Management with proper APA. The article must be unique. The sample article is attached below. Use the same format in the sample paper to write about Disaster management.Â
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NameSec 6010 Summer II 2016Weekly artcle #1NASCAR Team Victm of Ransomware A±ackBACKGROUNDLasT April, while preparing Their car for The upcoming Duck Commander 500 NASCAR (NatonalAssociaton of STock Car AuTo Racing) race, Circle SporT-Levine Family Racing ±eam’s crew chief DaveWinsTon became suspicious when he was alerTed by anoTher member of The race Team abouT unusualcommunicaton in his DropboxaccounT.ShorTly a²er Taking his compuTer o³ The neTwork, WinsTon wasconfronTed wiTh a pop-up demanding he pay a ransom in order To recover imporTanT Technicalinformaton abouT The car ThaT was critcal To preparing iT for The upcoming race.±his informatonincluded imporTanT deTails abouT The car’s suspension, Track seT up speci´catons, various parTs of Thecar, and wind Tunnel TesT daTa, as well informaton abouT ±eam personnel.WinsTon faced The diµculT decision of eiTher paying The ransom, which amounTed To abouT $500 USD inBiTcoin, or spending an estmaTed 1500 hours To recreaTe a daTabase valued aT some $2m USD worTh ofTechnical informaton abouT The race car, reporTed Chickowski (2016).WiTh only Two days before Therace, WinsTon had no choice buT To pay The ransom.ForTunaTely, The a¶ackers provided The decryptonkey, and The Circle SporT-Levine Family Racing ±eam was able To reacquire Their daTa.Murnane (2016) observed ThaT while many businesses ThaT are victms of ransomware Tend To remainsilenT abouT Their a¶acks To proTecT Their brand image or proTecT Themselves againsT fuTure a¶acks CircleSporT-Levine Family Racing elecTed To go public.Like many small businesses, Circle SporT was focused onTheir business- NASCAR racing- and was noT partcularly knowledgeable abouT cyber ThreaTs such asransomware.And, like many similar victms, They assumed iT was someThing ThaT could noT happen ToThem.±hey decided To go public To increase awareness among NASCAR fans and The racing indusTry ofThe ThreaT posed by ransomware (Murnane, K. 2016).Circle SporT subsequenTly parTnered wiTh ThesecuriTy so²ware company MalwarebyTes To raise awareness abouT This cyber securiTy ThreaT.KEY ISSUESIT is exTremely diµculT To Trace ransomware back To The cyber criminal’s command and conTrolservers due To The use of ±or neTworks, which conceal a user’s identTy and locaton.CurrenT encrypton codes used by cybercriminals are exTremely complex; CrypToLocker, apopular ransomware program uses a 2048-biT RSA code, making decrypton wiThouT a key nearlyimpossible.Ransomware spreads in ways ThaT are diµculT To avoid, such as Through e-mail; sTolen e-mailaddresses, or Those acquired Through phishing schemes, can be especially dangerous since Theyappear To be from a TrusTed source, making iT much more likely you’ll open infecTeda¶achmenTs.1
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