The aim of phishing is to steal a user’s identity in order to make fraudulent transactions as if the Phisher were the user. 2.2 Types of Phishing Attacks Numerous different types of phishing attacks have now been identified. Some of the more prevalent are listed below. a) Deceptive
Sony PlayStation Network Data Breach Compromises 77 Million User Accounts By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted 2011-04-26 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Sony-PlayStation-Network-Data-Breach-Compromises-77-Million-User-Accounts-208028/ Sony's PlayStation Network has been down for nearly a week, and the company finally admitted that an unauthorized person had stolen personal information belonging to 77 million account holders. An attacker gained "illegal" access to personal information stored on both the PlayStation Network and the Qriocity online music and video service, Sony announced on its blog on April 26. The information included names, addresses, log-in and password credentials, password security answers, email addresses, and birth dates. User purchase history and credit card information may also have been compromised. While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility," Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications and social media, wrote on the company blog.
The problem was that all its users had access to Copyright material without owning it, raising a big red flag to mainly to the music industry at that time. According to the creator and the users of Napster, it was never created with the intent of piracy, but to share music with audiophiles around the World. Nevertheless, Napster was shut down by a lawsuit. Even though Napster is not available anymore, online piracy is bigger than ever with new ways to download copyright material without paying for it. The Discourse and the Underlying Issues: A Dissection Brian Lee, after making the DRM complaint, ended up in a heated rhetoric about online piracy with the maker of the computer game console.
However, the traders were fired once it was revealed that Enron's reserves were gambled away which nearly destroyed the company. After these facts were brought to light, Ken Lay denies having any knowledge of wrongdoing. Needless to say, when required to testify before the U.S. Congress on the reasons for Enron’s collapse, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling and Andrew Fastow, sought refuge under the Fifth Amendment. Andrew Fastow, Jeffrey Skilling, and Kenneth Lay are among the most notable top-level executives implicated in the collapse of Enron’s. Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron was prosecuted on 11 criminal counts of making misleading statements and fraud.
I.D. and contents within the account terminate upon death." Destroying the data once the contract ends simplifies life for Internet service providers (ISPs), says Mr. Chappell. The family had to take yahoo to court. The judge granted the family access to Justin’s emails and yahoo had to hand them over.
But Wikileaks was famous by the “ Collateral Murder”. In April 2010, An Apache gunship attacked and killed civilians and journalists in Baghdad in 12 July 2007. After that, more than seventy-six thousands documents called “Afghan War Diary”, which were not available for public, were published. After three yeas, The Iraq War Logs, which compiled about 400,000 documents, were released to the public review. In November 2010.
Business throughout the world utilized computers and the internet for their daily operation. Hackers Although computers and access to the internet are used daily to accomplish personal tasks and or for business operations, hackers use the technology for wrong doing. Max Ray Butler worked for the federal government as a computer consultant, but later turned into a computer criminal. He hacked into carder forum web sites where he stole credit card number, bought, sold and forced members to conduct their business through his own website, cardersmarket.com (Computerworld.com, 2010, para 5). He was charged federally and sentenced in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card information (Computerworld.com, 2010, para 1).
• Phishing: is the act of sending emails purportedly from a reputable company in order to trick a user into revealing personal information such as passwords and account details which will be later used for cybercrime. • Trojans: malicious software which is used to mislead the user about its true intent. • Denial of Service attacks (DoS Attack): is an attempt to make a service or network unavailable for legitimate use. The service is flooded with requests slowing or stopping the service altogether. These attacks can be halted by blocking the source of the
Viacom sued YouTube for $1.6 billion for 150,000 copyrighted violations that they found on the YouTube site of their material 3. How has the movie studios responded to YouTube? What is the goal of the response? What can the movie studios learn from music industry’s dealings with online digital music and copyright infringement? Initially, the movie studios viewed YouTube as an enemy.
This hacking was done by the News of the World, in which they hacked people’s phones and listened in on their conversations for a good story to write about. They hacked mainly celebrities but they also hacked the royal family’s phones. David Cameron started an inquiry in which he called in the Leveson inquiry on 6th July 2011. This inquiry was looking into phone hacking and police bribery. When they found evidence of hacking and bribery the Press Complaints Commission was completely replaced to regulate that so that it would regulate other newspaper industries how it should have been doing from the start.