Dillon Kupferschmid Contact Info: E-Mail: dk526a@lab.icc.edu
Log InQuestion One
a) To answer question one, the Enigma Cipher Machine was created in Germany by engineer Arthur Scherbius. Alan Turing, who was an English mathematician, computer scientist, etc, had helped the English crack the Cipher. Arthur Scherbius had created the Cipher after WW1 for the Nazi armies in an attempt to get ahead in case another World War was to happen, which as we know now, it did. I have watched the movie: The Imitation Game, which acts as a biography for Alan Turing's involvement in decoding the Enigma Cipher, explains this as well. I had watched the movie as I was learning about how to decipher encrypted codes, and this movie served as a primary basis for that idea.
b) The Enigma Cipher was cracked or "broken" on July 9th of 1941, by a group of British cryptologists, including Alan Turing, whom I once again point reference to with the movie: The Imitation Game.
c) Alan Turing is the one responsible for cracking the Enigma Cipher, as he created multiple machines, computers, and spent tireless hours studying the code to eventually decipher it and understand what they were really saying with the device.
Question Two
a) The acronym for S.A.T.A.N means Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, which was a tool that was used for checking for networking vulnerability.
b) According to my searches, it is said that the updated version of S.A.T.A.N was changed to S.A.N.T.A, as SATAN was considered somewhat offensive by some. The acronym is unknown, as it was only really a rearrangement of the letters for the sake of making the name inoffensive, but when it comes to exactly what the newest updates name is, my records come up with little nothing.
Question Three
a) The author of the real novel is Clifford Stoll.
b) According to some articles found online, the best information that I can pull up involving an accounting discrepancy involves about a 75 cent error in computer usage accounts.
Question Four
a) CERT stands for Computer Emergency Response Team, and a CERT incident is when a cyber-security threat needs to be dealt with by the Computer Emergency Response Team, such as dealing with data breaches and denial of service attacks. For more info about CERT incidents, check out this article: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/CERT-Computer-Emergency-Readiness-Team
b) One can report a CERT incident by visiting this website: https://us-cert.cisa.gov/report, where you can fill out an application for any of the afflicted things that may have happened to you to require a CERT investigation. If you can't fill it out online, then you can report it to the Federals and let them know what is going on to be able to prevent a problem with phishing, malware, or even systematic vulnerabilities.
Conclusion
So generally, it is no joke that web security can be a difficult thing to deal with on a day to day basis, especially when it comes to today's age, where everyone's personal info is being leaked on the internet. The best thing I advise is only download things you can trust, or even use a VM, (Virtual Machine) to make sure that if you do end up downloading anything that could be considered a threat, the VM will stop it from infecting your computer, as a VM is basically just an internal sandbox inside your computer that lets you keep things going without letting your system be compromised. In any case, I am always paranoid, so I'm a bit over-protective, but I hope you enjoyed reading my answers to all of the burning questions.
