Research two recent security breaches

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1. Research two recent security breaches published in the media that occurred through a network security flaw. Provide citations and references to your research sources. Briefly describe what happened and how the flaws were exploited. What could have been done to better secure the networks?

2. Select an operating system (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and research what it uses to communicate directly with the computer hardware architecture. While the short answer may just be ‘drivers', be more specific. How do these drivers allow the operating system to interact with the hardware?

3. Investigate the cloud-based storage services of a major provider, such as Microsoft, Google, or Amazon. What are the approximate costs of configuring each service to store 2 TB of data and respond to requests from eight other servers? Which one has higher storage access performance? Which one is easier to configure and administer? Which is best suited to file sharing for fewer than a dozen computers in a home or small business network? Which is best suited to handle storage duties for distributed high-performance computing clusters?

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