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.
Not to mention WIRETIME is unethical in their actions. Computer hacking is considered criminalizing under The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Under this, BUGusa would have the right to obtain compensatory damages and court ordered relief or other just relief. Steven and WIRETIME may be sued for the executed plot performed because it is unlawful to purposely access computer information without authority to do so, under section 1030 (a)(2) – Unlawful Access to Obtain Information. If he is caught in the act, he can be charged under Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
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
Answer to questions: The ethical issues involved in the Madoff case was his misconduct and deceitful activity. He lied to investors, cheated out his financial interests, and stole from thousands of people around the world. He took money from new clients and paid it out to existing clients. I don't believe that Madoff worked alone. Even if nobody helped him deceive investors, people knew about it, and the act of knowing and not reporting a white-color crime is guilty by association.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act explicitly states “when a trespass is made with an intent to defraud that results in both furthering the fraud and the attacker obtaining something of value” (Gallegos & Senft, 2009). This definitely applies in this case, the attacker(s) used an attack known as spear fishing to dupe our customers into unintentionally installing a keystroke logging virus on to their computers. Once the virus was in place the attacker(s) waited for our customers to log into their bank accounts and recorded all the information necessary to create new user accounts and transfer funds from our customers account to other various accounts eventually ending up in the attacker(s) accounts located overseas. This would meet the qualifications stated in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; the attacker trespassed on these computers with the intent to obtain something of value. Also by taking the data provided by the key logger they violated the Electronics Communications Privacy.
The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates there could have been a billion dollar loss owing to the hacking or unauthorized access to the information. It is important to note that thousands ofveteransreceived bills from large companies such as Bank of America, USAA and the Federal Credit Union bank. The veterans whom had accounts at these banks will not be comfortable banking with a bank where their information is not
Here are a few cases that show what people are going through and how the criminals are doing it. Case one: Porscha Kyles worked as a clerk at the Broward courts and was using people’s driver license numbers to obtain their information and then selling the information a man who intended to use the information in a tax refund scheme. Since she was able to name the man who she sold the stolen information to, he most likely did not get to use the information for his scheme. Had investigators not caught on so quickly to Ms. Kyles stealing of information it could of have a great impact on victims when they filed their yearly income taxes. They would have been notified that a return had been filed in their name already, plus there would have been deductions that could have caused an audit on the victim.
It was said in on story a potential drug dealer was giving his bank account information on the phone when his call was intercepted. During this call, a crooked cop stole the dealer information and stole all his funds from his bank account in which the family became in debt. Now this has become a new controversy of tapping anyone’s phone
He quickly found his niche and employment by robbing banks, and almost overnight he became a “Robin Hood” national hero. Even thought people had been killed during these holdups and robberies. Many people across the nation were so fed up with the banks at this time and the loss of their own money a few lives taken was alright by them. The people had felt this gang was stealing from the bank who had originally taken from them. Even the press played him up as a brilliant, daring, likeable individual, basically an equivalent to a “superhero” by taking down banks which had been merciless by forcing debtors to mortgage all that they had.
Organized crime groups typically bribe police and other law enforcement groups as a way of defacing the legal system in order to avoid prosecution. Huge amounts of available cash allow these groups to persuade government officials in staying out of the way, thus assisting the crime groups in reaching its goals. Bribery helps these criminal groups to avoid prosecution and in turn, the criminals are able to continue their operations, uninterrupted. Another characteristic among crime organizations is the pyramid power structure by which these organizations run. This type of structure is known as a hierarchy system.