All transactions performed were done so with the appropriate credentials. Once we determined that the data breach did not occur on our network we worked with the customers to check their personal computers. We discovered that all the information was gathered from the customers with a key-logging virus that collected the usernames, account numbers, passwords, personal identification numbers, URL addresses, and digital certificates used to access the VL Bank online banking site. Further investigation showed that there was not adequate virus protection on these PCs. The key-logging virus originated from a phishing email impersonating VL Bank and asking the customer to load the latest security software to protect from identity theft.
An example of a message sent via e-mail that caused a misunderstanding involved me and a customer. I wrote a message to a client and did not realize I had the tab locked for capital letters. I wrote the entire letter that way, and sent the message anyway. I was new to computers and did not know that capitalized words are considered yelling. I am a two-finger typist so I was not looking at the screen as I wrote.
For example, if a woman secretly records an altercation between her and someone harassing her then I feel that it is justified. If a man is stalking her and it is her word against his then she may not have a chance of saving herself, but if she records this altercation then there is proof that this situation actually occurred. This recording may not hold up in court but at least she can prove to people and she can get protection from this person somehow. Surveillance is in place to help people and companies to manage their locations and see if and when people are around them. Surveillance helps store owners determine if their employees or customers are stealing from them, it helps homeowners manage their property and know if their family is in danger, and it helps corporate buildings manage the large number of people who walk in and out of the building.
Within this case, we will see multiples internal control weaknesses that allowed Pavlo to perpetrate the fraud and how he used the tricks to mask the whole scam. Internal control is the method intended to ensure dependable financial reporting, effective and efficient department operations, and business compliance with related laws and regulations. Not having an effective internal control process will allow fraudsters like Walt Pavlo to take advantage. In 1992, Pavlo started working with MCI as one of a few managers in charge of the billing and collections for the carrier business unit. The carrier unit handled the reseller’s accounts that leased and bought large amount of time from MCI and then resold to their own direct customers.
One example of an immigrant who faced a struggle against I.C.E was when Maria Bolanos called the police due to the abuse by her partner but instead one phone call led to her own deportation. Before the incident, she was fingerprinted because she was charged with selling a phone card to a neighbor illegally. “Even though police later dropped the phone card charge, Bolanos' fingerprints were the first step toward deportation proceedings” (Vishnuvajjala 2). This exemplifies that police were not considering helping Bolanos and completely ignored why she called the police in first place, which can lead to immigrants in fear and helpless if they were in serious danger circumstances. If police cannot help one's issue, what is the purpose of being a cop?
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.
All I did was take documents, top secret documents, and make them available to the public. While I did steal USA government property, I did not have it published in the USA; thus why I left you without saying a word. I could not tell you where I was going or that I was even fleeing the country. I do hope you will forgive me on that one. As Henry David Thoreau
When Filt brought the card to some sport-card grading services, they all said the card had been refinished and trimmed. Strek tricked Filt into buying this card, but it was not an original card; this was clearly a fraud. The related issue that I noticed about this case and my project court case was the facts show that the defendant, Win Van Lines, Inc. lost or stole client’s expensive properties, but it refused to accept the fault. In both these cases, the defendant lost because they had committed fraud and crime. I agreed with the court’s decision that the defendants of both these cases should pay the plaintiff the exact amount of what they had lost.
Pritchard Hall Thefts: Lacey Larceny or Something Worse Once again Pritchard Hall is in the clutches of a criminal mastermind. Instead of high priced MP3s and laptop computers, the larcenist is after something much lacier. The Virginia Tech Police Department has received reports of underwear being taken from the laundry room in Pritchard. I know what you’re thinking. “What could be more suspenseful than stealing underwear?” “Surely, this must be the plot for Point Break II.” “How did they get past the laser trip wires?” I can only answer with: “almost anything;” “Dear God, do not give Keanu Reaves an excuse to act again;” and “I am guessing Catherine Zeta Jones dipped beneath them (whoa oh oh).” However, the V.T.P.D.
Another interesting was ghost writing that was discovered by officers during mail search. The gang members used codes in the mail to communicate that no one else could have comprehended besides them. After lot of hard work investigators were able to crack down the code, which ordered gang members to kill the correction officers. These methods just amazed me. It seems like it’s almost impossible to stop these gang members from communicating once the officers and investigator find one means of their communication they find a new one by that time.