Handling Human Hacking: Creating a Comprehensive Defensive Strategy Against Modern Social Engineering

Social engineering is one of the most devastating threats to any company or business. Rather than relying upon technical flaws in order to break into computer networks, social engineers utilize a suave personality in order to deceive individuals through clever conversation. These devious conversations frequently provide the attacker with sufficient information to compromise the company’s computer network. Unlike common technical attacks, social engineering attacks cannot be prevented by security tools and software. Instead of attacking a network directly, a social engineer exploits human psychology in order to coerce the victim to inadvertently divulge sensitive information. Further complicating the issue, the rise in popularity of social media has vastly increased the arsenal of information available to the social engineer to utilize when targeting individuals. Ultimately, this paper will describe the danger posed by social engineering attacks before detailing a comprehensive strategy to defend against the threat, accounting specifically for the dangers posed by social media and psychology

Providing Care at the End of Life: An Examination of Biblical Principles

In our modern age, the line between life and death has become more and more blurred. This often leaves the family and friends of terminally ill patients to wonder how to make decisions about their loved one in the light of their Christian faith. The growth of modern life-prolonging technologies has given rise to a plethora of new and confusing technical terms. This paper will attempt to wade through these terms and definitions by looking at several scriptural situations dealing with the end of life. I will then highlight the biblical principles that must transcend every end of life situation. I should note that many end of life issues deal with technologies that simply did not exist during biblical times. Scripture will therefore not speak directly to every issue. That does not mean, however, that the truths to which the Bible speaks are not still relevant

Providing Care at the End of Life: An Examination of Biblical Principles

In our modern age, the line between life and death has become more and more blurred. This often leaves the family and friends of terminally ill patients to wonder how to make decisions about their loved one in the light of their Christian faith. The growth of modern life-prolonging technologies has given rise to a plethora of new and confusing technical terms. This paper will attempt to wade through these terms and definitions by looking at several scriptural situations dealing with the end of life. I will then highlight the biblical principles that must transcend every end of life situation. I should note that many end of life issues deal with technologies that simply did not exist during biblical times. Scripture will therefore not speak directly to every issue. That does not mean, however, that the truths to which the Bible speaks are not still relevant