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Anti Virus Software Break Ins
4,269 words... The majority have in common the belief that information should be free and that they have "a right to know. " They often have some amount of dislike for the government and the industries who try to control and commercialize information of any sort. This paper attempts to expose what the CU truly is and dispel some of the myths propagated by the media and other organizations. This paper also tries to show the processes and reasons behind the criminalization of the CU and how the CU is viewed ...
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Trojan Horses Operating System
2,148 wordsSecurity is the discipline of using effective protection measures to safeguard important assets from abuse. In other words, security is about protecting important things. Protection involves not just mechanisms (such as locks and doors), but also proper selection and use of mechanisms. Properly applied, the various disciplines of information security really come down to risk management that is not fundamentally different from risk management in other situations such as finance and insurance. In ...
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Biometric Security Security System
1,241 wordsAbout two hundred years before, the word "computer" started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even didn't know what is a computer. However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer. Therefore, computer become more and more popular and important to our society. We can use computer everywhere and they are very useful and helpful to our life. The speed and accuracy of computer made people felt confident and reliable. Therefore, many i...
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Make A Difference Presidential Elections
1,596 wordsThe issue of public information has always been a controversy in our world. One of our country's founding arguments was based on the necessity of free speech and free information. Many now believe that our government is being overly restrictive on information, blocking and controlling some aspects of free speech that first amendment advocates feel are necessary to maintain our American society. These advocates of free information have been using the nickname "hackers" for over twenty years, but ...
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Credit Card Computer Networks
1,537 wordsWhat is a hacker one may ask? He doesn't wear a stocking mask over his face, nor does he break a window to get into your house. He doesn't hold a gun to your head, nor does he go through your personal possessions. Considering the situation, he recognized just the way a thief is recognized. But one strange thing about this thief is that you " ll never be able to see him, although you may not even realize right away that he's the one that robbed you. This thief is a computer hacker and he "enters"...
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Computer Security Phone Lines
1,300 wordsHackers cost governments, corporations, and even normal people billions of dollars per year. You might ask, sure, there are those out there for profit, but what about the college student who was just doing it for fun? Profit or fun, it's still theft. In some cases theft of money, in others, theft of information. Just because a person uses a computer should not impact the severity of their punishment. A murderer's punishment is not affected by which weapon he chooses to employ, so why should a th...
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Trojan Horses Unauthorized Access
1,176 words... ) and checksum-based change detection tools. Design of configuration review tools requires intimate knowledge of the system, but no knowledge of the worm code. Another class of add-on tools is the intrusion detection tool. This is somewhat analogous to the PC monitoring software, but is usually more complex. This tool reviews series of commands to determine if the user is doing something suspicious. If so, the system manager is notified. One type of network security tool is the wrapper progr...
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Computer Security Phone System
1,127 words... up ports. There are two advantages of attacking systems through the phone system. The first advantage is that, phone system attack are hard to trace. It is possible to make connections through multiple switching units or to use unlisted or unused phone numbers to confound a tracing effort. Also by being in the phone system, it is sometimes possible to monitor the phone company to see if a trace is initiated. The second advantage to using the phone system is that a sophisticated host machine ...
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The Threat Of Terrorism In Cyber Space
858 wordsExperts believe fallout from September 11 could continue through computer infiltration. In the Internet Age, when communications speed across national boundaries, terrorist groups are winning the cyber space battle. Leading security experts predict that it is only several years before a terrorist or rouge nation is capable of an online hacker-style attack against the United States, causing massive failure of such crucial elements as banking for the financial markets, transportation systems, the ...
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Federal Trade Commission Internet Users
1,686 wordsPrivacy & Technology Introduction The advent of information technology springs from the idea that information superhighway is made available to all people from all walks of life. All sorts of information are made accessible at the tip of ones fingers and can be retrieved in a short period of time through the amazing Internet technology, computerized or electronically processed data system. What used to be data, like records or public documents, gathered for weeks or days can now be obtained in m...
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How Computers Increase Identity Theft
747 wordsHow Computers Increase Identity Theft Identify theft is the illegal use of someone elses personal information. Actually, the identify theft cannot be called a novelty in a criminal world. However, the temptation to steal someone elses private information became more attractive with rapid growth of modern technologies. There are plenty of ways in which the identity theft can occur, such as bin raiding (retrieving financial documents that the person has thrown away), skimming (cloning of payment c...
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Recommendations Report For Biometric Security Product
2,078 wordsRecommendations Report for Biometric Security Product This report is going to be focused on the issues of the internet security, particularly on the issues of Biometric Security Products. The company that the recommendations report is being done for is made up company called Para Not Now Incorporated. (PNN) The security and privacy of all computer users has been compromised by the advancement of computer technology. As the complexity and potential of computers, computer hardware, and computer so...
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National Hurricane Center Disaster Recovery
1,111 wordsThis thesis is a compartmentalized discourse on DRP (Disaster Recovery Planning) answering several key questions from a case study perspective. Disaster Recovery Planning 1. PRESENTATION When communicating the importance of a DRP several issues should be emphasized to management. The effect of even a short-term interruption in business on profits and cash flows should be stressed. A sensible plan contains at least three core elements: business resumption plans, emergency procedures, and informat...
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Trojan Horse Microsoft Corp
1,041 wordsViruses and Worms This paper is about computer viruses and worms. Maybe the term virus is not the first thing to remember when we talk about computers but viruses play an important role in using them. Lets start from the definitions of what are the viruses and worms are. At first I want to emphasize that both viruses and worms are malicious programs, which can damage a computer. We need to know the difference between the two of them if we want better protection for our computer. Vangie 'Aurora' ...
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Security System Computer Security
2,497 wordsAbout two hundred years before, the word computer started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even didnt know what is a computer. However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer. Therefore, computer become more and more popular and important to our society. We can use computer everywhere and they are very useful and helpful to our life. The speed and accuracy of computer made people felt confident and reliable. Therefore, many impo...
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Public And Private Computer Security
897 wordsFirst, we have to understand these type of computer crimes such as below because they will let us know the computer crimes often happen in our lives. 1. unauthorized use, access, modification, copying, and destruction of software or data (Bill Smith, the computer consultant, was convicted under recently enacted statutes covering this category of crimes); 2. theft of money by altering computer records or theft of computer time; 3. theft or destruction of hardware; 4. use or conspiracy to use comp...
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Wall Street Journal Credit Card Fraud
2,118 wordsOverview If cyberspace is a type of community, a giant neighborhood made up of networked computer users around the world, then it seems natural that many elements of a traditional society can be found taking shape as bits and bytes. With electronic commerce comes electronic merchants, plugged-in educators provide online education, and doctors meet with patients in offices on-line. It should come as no surprise that there are also cyber criminals committing cybercrime's. As an unregulated medley ...
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Trojan Horses Kevin Mitnick
3,444 wordsby Pc Perps PC Perps by David Stone PC Perps Near the end of the Vietnam War, two college students break into a bank computer using the college+s computer and transfer $ 25, 000 from the Grand Old Party National Committee+s account into the Black Panthers+. One of the students is caught, arrested and prosecuted the other gets away (Sneakers). In 1983, a high school student uses his home computer to try and steal some gaming software from a California vendor+s mainframe and ends up in the Pentago...
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E Mail Messages Electronic Mail
2,632 wordsTo deal with hackers who break through office systems through the Internet it is important for information managers to understand their enemy well. If they have sound background knowledge about hackers, they might be prepared to deal with them in a much more effective method. Hackers are very educated often mostly university or high school students who try to break through systems for which they have no authorization. They deal poorly with people, have few friends and less relationships, but at ...
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Millions Of Dollars Crime Victims
801 wordsLegislative attention to computer crimes grew dramatically in the early 1980 s, as computers became increasingly central to the conduct of business and politics. Instances of hackers, especially among young people, accessing government computer files for sport were becoming alarmingly frequent. A popular culture mythology developed, founded on the ex posts of what were regarded as rebel heroes who could single-handedly spy on and sabotage the vast machinations of the corporate and government est...
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