• 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.
A worm is basically a virus that is network aware. It can move over the network and infect multiple computers in a matter of seconds. The Trojan program is based off of the Trojan horse story in Greek mythology, it appears to be a legitimate program, but usually hides a virus or worm. When the program is started, it will “drop” a virus or worm into the system and then the system will be infected. Spyware is almost exactly as it sounds, a spying program.
Another user makes destructive changes to one of your spreadsheets. 16. An attacker can access the Web server. running on your domain server computer. and run the sample programs.
Kostadinov goes on to note that most cyberterrorism actions are generally focused on website sabotage and email blasting. In order to prove that the network breach was a terrorist attack the company would need to provide electronic evidence of these types of information warfare. Information warfare is a term often used interchangeably with cyberterrorism but provides a deeper understanding in the shift of how data has become fundamental to society. As governments, companies and people shift to the use of digital information so have the methods used to attack (Gilmer, 2001). In order to combat this aspect of terrorism, the military have adopted computer forensics as part of their defenses (Vacca & Rudolph, 2011).
You could conclude that Casey used the information off the internet on how to make chloroform and used it to murder her child. The finds of the study by using various cases and data are that there is a fine line when using the First Amendment and the publishing of these “how-to” books, articles, and media based publications. They can and will be published and the authors hold no control of how people interpret them and use them to commit a criminal
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.
D) A denial of service attack occurs when the perpetrator e-mails the same message to everyone on one or more Usenet newsgroups LISTSERV lists. A) A denial of service attack occurs when the perpetrator sends hundreds of messages from randomly generated false addresses, overloading an Internet service provider's e-mail server. 8) Gaining control of someone else's computer to carry out illicit activities without the owner's knowledge is known as A) hacking. B) hijacking. C)
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
The ping sweeps and port scans are the two techniques that malicious computer users such as hackers that can use to compromise an Enterprise networks security and gain access to their proprietary data. The ping sweeps are performed to find an open-door into a particular end-point. A person usually can find all kinds of utilities on the internet to exploit the open-doors on the system and gain access to important and confidential files on the network. It is a good idea that we try to protect ourselves against all these types of activities on the network and to also try to conduct them ourselves that way we know that out networks are safe. The ping sweeps are what you really think they are.
Data mining for surveillance purposes truly began in wake of the September 11th attacks. The Bush Administration, in collaboration with the NSA, created the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) (LICHTBLAU, 2005). Essentially, the TSP enabled NSA officials to eavesdrop on calls (domestic or international) without a warrant. On August 17th, 2006, U.S. District Judge Anna Taylor ruled the program Unconstitutional and Illegal (Hopkins, 2007). Under the impression that the U.S would lose the ability to continue surveillance of terrorists, the Bush Administration passed the Protect America Act, allowing intelligence to be collected on suspected targets reasonably believed to be outside of the United States without a warrant (Congress, 2007).