An intern can access several user accounts after learning their birthdays and pets names. 3. An attacker crashes your Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) Server database exploiting a vulnerability from 2008. 4. Your Web server computer becomes infected with the Slammer worm.
• Question 15 Traditional money laundering techniques include all of the following except one. Which technique below is not a traditional method of money laundering? • Question 16 Opportunities for identity crimes have increased primarily because consumers are increasingly asked to use their social security number as a personal identifier. • Question 17 A subculture is a set of values, norms, and beliefs that differ from the dominant culture. • Question 18 The unique feature of a worm is that it: • Question 19 A virus is a piece of code that attaches itself to other instructions within a computer.
The targets included Speakeasy Network (Seattle, Washington), the Nara Bank (Los Angeles, California), the Central National Bank of Waco (Waco, Texas), and the online credit card payment company PayPal (Palo Alto, California), among others. For these crimes, Gorshkov faced a maximum prison term of five years on each count, resulting in a possible sentence of 100 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 on each count. The jury sentenced him to a three-year prison
In January 1982, he was convicted of a misdemeanor theft offense and was sentenced to 6 days in jail with 12 months’ probation. Andrade was arrested again in November 1982 for multiple counts of first-degree residential burglary. He pleaded guilty to at least three of those counts, and in April of the following year he was sentenced to 120 months in prison. In 1988, Andrade was convicted in federal court of “transportation of marijuana,” App. 24, and was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
After pleading guilty to wiretapping charges, Christopher Chaney has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison. By hacking into the e-mail accounts of fifty celebrities, stretching from actress and model Scarlett Johansson, to Victoria’s Secret Model, Mila Kunis, the thirty-six year-old Florida male was able to steal nude photos, and personal information from the stars. Chaney was conscious of the severity of his acts, saying the habit was an addiction, and when he was arrested in October of last year, he even apologized for his acts. He told reporters quote, "I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy someone could experience…And these people don't have privacy to begin with. And I was in that little sliver of
UK man gets 27 years in US jail for plotting to torture, eat child US District Court via AP By Reuters A British man who admitted planning to kidnap, torture and eat at least one child using a sound-proofed dungeon he built in his home in Massachusetts was sentenced to nearly 27 years in U.S. prison on Tuesday. Geoffrey Portway, 40, a British citizen, was sentenced by Judge Timothy Hillman at U.S. district court in Worcester after pleading guilty in May to charges related to child pornography and plotting a kidnapping and violent crime. "The long and serious sentence ... reflects the serious nature of the crimes that he committed, and the fact that these are not victimless crimes," U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz told reporters outside
Common Information Security Threats Paper CMGT/400 University of Phoenix January 27, 2013 In this day and age, technology has grown so fast that most of us are playing catch up to the people who were born in the “computer era”. As technology continues to advance, so do the threats; especially to businesses. Instead of having an upfront attack or robbery, they have chosen to go the electronic way. The one business that I would like to cover would be the banking industry. This institution is constantly being attacked, on a daily basis, with various methods.
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
Cyberbullying has become more and more prevalent on the internet over the past few years. Ever since the World Wide Web was created, people have been creating ways for everyone to talk to each other via the internet. Email was the first to be created and implemented. After that, the development of the instant messaging system was brought into focus. With it, people all over the world could send messages instantaneously in a little chat box.
Either way he tells the story of how he discovered the internet and how he could simply hide behind his digital mask and saying things he probably wouldn’t have said if he was confronted with these people in real life. Aleks also talks about how religious and racist groups use the internet to recruit members and form a virtual weapon against anyone who doesn’t agree with their beliefs. Despite Aleks Krotoski uses the tools of relation for example his opening section: “I remember the first time I logged into a chatroom. It was 1996, and I was using my mum’s AOL account to mooch around the World Wide Web, which was