(Cybercrime.gov‚ 2009‚para8) can divide cyber criminals into four groups. This division may be classified under what they have in their mind. These groups are‚ children and adolescents between the age group of 6 – 18 years‚ organized hackers‚ professional hackers‚ crackers and discontented employees. Cyber crimes can be divided into 11 groups and each of them is different. Those are unauthorized access to computer systems or networks (hacking)‚ theft of information contained in electronic form‚
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This paper is going to be on the different security threats on the internet‚ and the different ways to prevent and protect yourself from them. The different threats that are going to be covered are viruses‚ trojan horses‚ hackers‚ spam‚ corrupt IP packets‚ port scanner attacks‚ DOS(denial of service) attacks‚ spider attacks‚ worms and socail attacks. Also‚ I will cover different security practices and computer software and hardware that can help protect and prevent these different attacks on
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vengeance (hence the name of the movie in which is was popularized)‚ which also means the purpose of the group‚ which is to ‘punish’ websites that are believed to violate privacy and other things. They are not single entity‚ but many communities of hackers that keep their identities anonymous (hence the name of the group). They are believed to being related to a number of websites‚ the main one being the already mentioned imageboard 4Chan‚ but also other sites including a number of forums. 4Chan‚ however
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okay. Another ethical problem with computers is hacking. Hacking is the computer equivalent of breaking and entering. A computer hacker uses his or her skills to gain unauthorized access to another computer or computer network and‚ once inside‚ can wreak havoc by altering important information‚ deleting essential files‚ or just crashing the whole system. Many hackers who break into commercial Web sites are looking for
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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain what I use to protect my personal privacy. There are many different things that can be use to protect someone’s information and keep hackers from accessing their computer. Some people use anti-virus‚ firewalls and anti-spam software to help protect their personal privacy. As we all know with today’s technology having just anti-virus or firewalls are not good enough‚ but having something is better than nothing. They do not protect you from new
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every new system there is a hacker waiting to try to get lucky and steal some information. This was not the case for TJX. Investigation into the case indicated that the company was not in compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI)
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suffered an attack on its services from hackers outside the company. The series of events that followed this attack‚ outlined the security flaws of Sony ’s network‚ their questionable management of the situation‚ and the reaction of its customers. The first day of the attack on Sony ’s networks occurred on April 16‚ 2011. However‚ this first attack was not on the PlayStation Network‚ but on the company ’s personal computer (PC) gaming service. Hackers broke into this network and were able to
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CYBER CRIME AND SECURITY B.JAYANTH ROLL NO:108W1A0507 COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT ABSTRACT: Computer crime refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime‚ or it may be the target. Netcrime refers to criminal exploitation of the Internet. Cybercrimes are defined as: "Offences that are committed
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the operating system to find additional vulnerabilities that would otherwise be left hidden. Open source (or not) database platforms like MySQL‚ Microsoft SQL Server‚ and PostgreSQL that have achieved broad acceptance provide adept‚ malicious hackers an obvious path to attack websites en masse. With FireHost‚ we can trust that our database will be protected with the most advanced security available.
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software alone. Malicious code can either activate itself or activate after a user perform an action‚ such as clicking on something or opening an email attachment. The most recent cyberattacks were laid against the Canadian government by Chinese hackers‚ who penetrated the computer systems of two key agencies‚ the Finance Department and the Treasury Board‚ forcing them offline. With advances in network collaboration tools‚ from email toSharePoint 2010‚ there is incredible potential for sharing and
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