Briefly discuss threats from within a network.

What will be an ideal response?


Threats from within a network, even from users with good intentions, can cause more damage than hackers. It is obvious that administrators must protect a network from threats from outside, but authorized users can pose a greater threat through ignorance or carelessness because they already have access to the network, and must have some level of permissions on the network.

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Experiment with the Hello CGI example presesnted in Figures 9.10 and Figure 9.11.

a. Obtain the source files for the Hello CGI example presesnted in Figures 9.10 and Figure 9.11. b. Install hello.html on the web server: be sure to open its access to world-readable. c. Compile hello.c (with util.c for the query-string processing routines) to generate an executable Hello.cgi. (The command is%gcc hello.c util.c -o hello.cgi). Install hello.cgi on the web server: be sure to open its access to world-readable and world-executable. d. Open a browser and specify the URL for hello.html. When the page is displayed, press the button to submit the form and invoke hello.cgi. e. Summarize the experiment and report the result.

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Display course titles along with their prerequisite names. Display courses without prerequisite also.

Use the Indo–US (IU) College database tables to design the following queries. (Use the spooling method to capture all queries and results in the CHAP7SP2.LST file)

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A paragraph style can be applied to only a portion of a paragraph

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A page number that displays at the bottom of every page would display in a(n) ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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