Chapter 3 COMPUTER AND INTERNET CRIME In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately‚ Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer‚ you’re linking up to every computer that the computer has ever linked up to. * Dennis Miller‚ Saturday Night Live‚ U.S. television show QUOTE VIGNETTE Treatment of Sasser Worm Author Sends Wrong Message Unleashed in April 2004‚ the Sasser worm hit IT systems around the world hard
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Cost vs. Worth: The Dilemma of Higher Education As many approach graduation from high school‚ the same question overwhelms a vast majority of young‚ college-hungry graduates: How will I pay for college? Price is no secret when it comes to higher education‚ but shrouded in mystery is the true debate. For while many may think price is the latest hot topic‚ the true debate isn’t actually over price – it’s over worth. Many diverse people with just as diverse opinions present several views to
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CheckPoint: TJX Companies The data theft that TJX Companies experienced was caused by using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption system. The WEP had become easy for hackers to navigate and had become quite out of date. TJX also failed to properly encrypt data on many of the employee computers that were using the wireless network‚ and did not have an effective firewall. The company had also purchased additional security programs that were not installed correctly. An alternative to the
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name and password of access point and the router. Doing so help prevent unauthorized persons from connecting to the network by guessing the user name and password that were set by the manufacturer. You also should be careful of those vandals and hackers who can capture and read your company’s data that sent over the air. They can do this easily just by sitting outside your place. But don’t worry about that‚ I can tell you how to protect your network from this threat. You may need to activate the
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Cyber crime Cybercrime is one of the fastest growing areas of crime. Cyber Crimes are defined as: "Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm to the victim directly or indirectly‚ using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet (Chat rooms‚ emails‚ notice boards and groups) and
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MCS 2020 Units 7-12 UNIT 7: Information Ethics 7.1 Ethics for the Information Age Ethics is the philosophical investigation of right and wrong. It is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions (and the motivations behind those actions) It is tempting to believe that the law will dictate how people should act; we expect the legislative authorities to help guide our behavior Simply not enough laws for every circumstance The law lags behind
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Computer security: Protecting digital resources. Sudbury‚ Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Oppenheimer‚ P. (2011). Top-down network design. (3rd ed.). Indianapolis‚ Ind: Cisco Press. Raymond‚ E. S. (2001). How to become a hacker. Retrieved from http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Stewart‚ J. M.‚ Tittel‚ E.‚ & Chapple‚ M. (2013). Cissp‚ certified information systems security professional study guide. (5th ed. ed.). Indianapolis: Sybex.
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authorized users will have the key to unscramble the code and get the correct data. Data protection and security allows users to identify and view the issues and risk that are known when retrieving the data which can be deleted or lost through not only hackers and viruses and natural disasters. Data security is needed in order to stay safe. In the ever changing world of global data communications‚ reasonably priced Internet connections‚ and fast-paced software development‚ security is becoming more and
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Trojan horse is a program which contained a malicious or harmful code inside data that can control or damage the data‚ such as erasing data in the hard drive and may change computing system into a killing machine. Trojan virus has become common among hackers and the availability of advertising services that permit authors to violate the user’s privacy. 83 percent of the global malware is Trojan virus according to BitDefender from January to June 2009. This paper would generally talk about: History
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usage is growing every year‚ and every year more and more users log on which has become part of our everyday lives. Unfortunately‚ as we grow with technology so are those who are willing and able to use the internet against us. Cyber attackers/hackers try to use these resources against
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