Cyber terrorists can be motivated to target organizations that will result in the radical’s group to cause the most harm and/or receive the most attention for their party. Cyberterrorists use the internet to spread propaganda and enlist new members and use DoS/DDoS attacks to cause disruption to companies that represent actions against their belief’s (Vacca & Rudolph, 2011). Cyber terrorists can also steal information to be used for self-serving strategic purposes. Kostadinov (2012) makes the distinction between cybercrime and cyberterrorism in that the latter should resemble terrorist attacks via traditional methods but perpetrated virtually. Kostadinov goes on to note that most cyberterrorism actions are generally focused on website sabotage and email blasting.
• Question 29 Virus writers generally write viruses to steal information and destroy data. • Question 30 Which of the following is true? • Question 31 What major category of information warfare/cyber-terror does “web site defacement” fall into? • Question 32 Hackers were generally considered to be “criminals” as early as the 60s. • Question 33 The motives for many writers of malicious software have changed from profit to curiosity and revenge.
I've seen a lot of posts about Anonymous lately. The hacktivist group has entered the mainstream through their organizing and support of Occupy Wall Street protests, and hacking initiatives against companies like Stratfor and PayPal. Anonymous has been portrayed in the media as youthful, impulsive, tech savvy, and generally noble in intent, if not controversial in action. However, these descriptors of the famed "internet hate machine" are only of half the story. There is another side of Anonymous with a history riddled with racism, homophobia, terrorism, and pedophilia.
America with its advanced and sophisticated technology is not safe and secured from external attacks and other terroristic activities of its citizens. Gait Recognition and CC Camera Surveillances throughout the country cannot stop terrorist attack on Bay Bridge which kills more than four thousand people. Moreover, the failure of DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to maintain law and order and its wrong concept of taking every citizen as susceptible terrorist further increase terroristic activities by the frustrated and enraged people and prove itself as an agent of organized terrorism. Marcus Yallow and his technologically well-informed friends are the product of bad schooling and bad system of the government. Clever enough to trick the constant vigilance of school administration and its complete control; they become capable to threaten DHS and even the government.
Many was against the signing of a Domestic spying started after 9/11 terrorist attacks. The potential impact domestic spying can have on society is economic consequences. Another potential impact of domestic spying is the invasion of the American people privacy. The American people already have a hard time trusting the government but domestic spying increases their distrust. The government has lied and been in more scandals than anything.
They break into our computer for several reasons but mainly to acquire personal information for financial gain, shut down hardware, steal people’s credit information, and destroy data. To protect ourselves from hackers, we should equip our computer with Firewall. This hardware “prevents unauthorized Internet users from accessing private information” (Williams & Sawyer, 2013, p. 361). Identity theft is a serious crime in which thieves steal your name and identity and use to later to make a purchase under your name. Thieves access your personal information by sending out fake e-mail, mining the trash, and stealing your
In social networks people make “friends” without knowing the person and make personal information easily available” (Sauter, Poltrack, & Allen, 2012, para. 2). Criminals using social media use tools that will go through a dictionary on the Internet searching for common passwords. Facbook users can be victims of this type of hacking because many of the passwords used are common. Another way criminals use Facbook is a way to commit cyber-crime by profile cloning.
CYBERCRIME Lydda Lewis CJS/200 June 3, 2013 Lee Rankin Any kind of criminal activity that is done by using computers and the internet is called Cybercrime. This includes anything from downloading unlawful euphony files to hiding millions of dollars from online bank accounts. Cybercrime also includes non-monetary offenses, such as creating and distributing viruses on the computers or collect confidential information on the internet. Possibly the most popular form of cybercrime is identity stealing, in which are use the online to steal personal information from some other users. Two of the most informal ways this is through is through phishing and pharming.
While nice in theory, TOR is not publically accepted and is widely regarded as the “darkweb” due to the sheer amount of illicit content accessible. PRISM is an ongoing data-mining program created and heavily used by the NSA. In theory, PRISM is to be used for the investigation of foreign targets, but its scope has been broadened as the data collected by PRISM affects most citizens internationally. With societies current dependence on internet giants such as Microsoft and Google, it is near impossible to avoid
While the internet plays an essential role in everything we do, computers have created new ways to take advantage of technology for criminal deeds. For example, hackers have the ability to steal millions of credit card numbers through the illegal access of a data base. Through online sharing networks, pedophiles distribute child pornography throughout the internet. Others can distribute viruses to computers if only for the sake of perversity and spitefulness. Not any one company or agency can successfully fight cybercrime alone, cooperation has to be the key to succeed.