Dineshreddy Kasu

CS7850-Assignment1

Kasu.3@wright.edu

Part1: Privacy Breach

In may 2014, [1]eBay-the American online auction site announced that its network database was
hacked .The ebay said that customers' names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses,
birth date, and phone numbers were comprised in this hack. So, it urged all its million users to change the
account passwords and also more positively informed that customers' financial information was not
stolen. The ebay technical team had a regress testing on its corporation database and found the reason
behind the cyber attack. The ebay security team informed that the cyber attackers had stolen the login
credentials of few employees and thus, they got the access to the ebay's corporate network.
The security researcher (Jorder jones) looked into this issue [2] and found that hacker installed the
java scripts into the server page, where customers are generally bidding. Thus, they tried to hijack the
customers data to get from the browser cookies. Finally, ebay confirmed that there are no illegal
transaction occurrence yet and informed users to change the passwords immediately.
Reference: [1] http://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-hacked-requests-all-users-change-passwords/
[2] http://thehackernews.com/2014/05/worst-day-for-ebay-multiple-flaws-leave.html

Part2: Beneficial Use Case:The Unique Identification Authority of India[1] started a project called 'Aadhar'. The Aadhar is a 12
digit unique number assigned to each citizen of india. Currently, there are many identity cards in india
like driving license, passport, voter id, pan card and ration cards. Due to these multiple identities, there
are high chances of multiple data .So indian government wants to eliminate these multiple identities and
setup a common card to emphasize the citizenship. As per the Aadhar project, indian government takes
the citizen's name, gender, birth date, address details, phone numbers, fingerprint pattern, iris pattern and
face model and stores them into database. They checks this database while giving driving license,
selling/purchasing property, opening bank account, applying passport, giving basic commodities to
citizens. This checking process makes no duplication of information and it is also called as anti-corruption
tool. The aadhar data is being updated up-to-date from the resources. The indian government cops also
use this aadhar database to match with the criminal fingerprints and hence, they can catch them so easily.
Reference: [1] http://uidai.gov.in/

Part3:Publicly Available Dataset:The Missouri Accountability Portal[1] contains the publicly available open datasets related to state
employees salary details. These datasets contain information about calendar year, agency name, position
title, employee name, and employee's YTD gross pay. This information is being collected from year
2007.The data on this MAP site is updated each day. This information is a point of reference to review
how Missouri state money is being spent. Please check the dataset [2] for the same information for year
2011 and also refer the link [1] for all other years.
Reference: [1] http://mapyourtaxes.mo.gov/MAP/Download/Default.aspx
[2] https://data.mo.gov/Government/2011-State-Employee-Pay/qkky-mzji