In early February of 2000, several distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were launched against some pretty big name sites; Yahoo, Amazon, Dell, E*Trade, CNN, and eBay to name a few. These attacks were executed by MafiaBoy through hijacked university networks. He remotely controlled these networks to carry out his attacks. It was his sloppy work and bragging to others that got him caught. "One technician at University of California Santa Barbara, the site of one of Mafiaboy’s zombie networks
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Computer crime Computer Crime Definition A computer crime is any illegal action where the data on a computer is accessed without permission. This access doesn't have to result in loss of data or even data modifications. Arguably the worst computer crime occurs when there are no indications that data was accessed. Computer crime is often attributed to rogue hackers and crackers, but increasingly organized crime groups have realized the relative ease of stealing data with relative low-level of risk
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High-tech Crime Nowadays, with the rapid development of social, technological has also fast development and played very important role for the development of economy and people's lives . Technology has become an important factor, as the bridge between the exchange component of the global society, of all the problems...With the strong growth of the economy - one of the fastest growing fields, technology has also received great attention of people. Technology, including the development of information
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by hackers sending packets, or bits of data, very repetitively to the victim’s computer until it is unable to communicate any other packets. (PBS, 2001) One such attack was executed against some big United States companies. On February 8th 2000, “MafiaBoy” or Michael Calce attacked sites such as Yahoo!, CNN, eBay, and E-Trade, with repeated DOS attacks. Even though he was only able to bring them down momentarily, it is a pretty big accomplishment given their security measures. (Gross, 2011) Trojan
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Chapter 2 Review Questions 1. Management is needed to perform risk assessments and spend and substantial amount of money to protect the day to day functioning of the organization. Technology does not set policies nor fix the various social issues 2. Data is the most important asset an organization possesses because it represents the daily transaction records and its ability effectively deliver value to its customers. Without data organizations would not be able to carry out day to day task. The
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systems by flooding them with data from outside computers.” (James, 2009). The first document case of a DoS attack was in 2000 by a 15-year old Canadian boy nicknamed “Mafiaboy”. This attack was against several e-commerce sites including eBay.com and Amazon.com. There have been several other hackers prior to “Mafiaboy”. Two of the notorious cybercriminals were Kevin Mitnick and Robert Morris. In 1982, Mitnick broke into the North American Air Defense Command’s computer system. Mitnick
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days.Another DoS attack was documented in the week of feb 7 2000.A 15 year old canadian hacker named “mafiaboy” performed a series of DoS attack against some sites like ebay and amazon.Companies suffered from 1.7 billion of damage.After that it became the best way of hacking among cybercriminals. People used to perform these attacks for profits.Hackers will follow the procedures like mafiaboy and ask for the money.In 2005 ,it became more easy to implement those attacks ,a boy of 18-yr old named
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The World of Cybercrimes Cybercrimes are one of the most dangerous threats to our Nation. There are no boundaries when it comes to cybercrimes. A cybercrime is one of the fastest growing crime types of the century and includes criminal activity involving computers and the internet. Hacking a computer is not the only thing considered a cybercrime. Downloading movies and music illegally is also a cybercrime. Once thought as something that only the military or other government officials had to
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1.Potential act of Human Error Ans: An organisation can face information security breach from various sources. Employees and stakeholders are the threat agents closest to the organisational data. Employees uses data especially who are in an important role they can access all kind of data. Any mistake happens from employees can take the organisation losing its confidentiality, integrity. Now this kind of mistake happens sometimes intuitionally or accidentally. When an employee leaves classified data
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