CYBER ATTACK
Beware of cyber attack...
COMPUTER CRIME
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PASSWORD
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CYBER CRIME SCENE
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Cyber Crime Prevention Tips
Use Strong Passwords
Use different user ID / password combinations for different accounts and avoid writing them down. Make the passwords more complicated by combining letters, numbers, special characters (minimum 10 characters in total) and change them on a regular basis.
Secure your computer
Activate your firewall
- Firewalls are the first line of cyber defense; they block connections to unknown or bogus sites and will keep out some types of viruses and hackers.
- Prevent viruses from infecting your computer by installing and regularly updating anti-virus software.
- Prevent spyware from infiltrating your computer by installing and updating anti-spyware software.
Be Social-Media Savvy
Make sure your social networking profiles (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, MSN, etc.) are set to private. Check your security settings. Be careful what information you post online. Once it is on the Internet, it is there forever!
Secure your Mobile Devices
Be aware that your mobile device is vulnerable to viruses and hackers. Download applications from trusted sources.
Install the latest operating system updates
Keep your applications and operating system (e.g. Windows, Mac, Linux) current with the latest system updates. Turn on automatic updates to prevent potential attacks on older software.
Protect your Data
Use encryption for your most sensitive files such as tax returns or financial records, make regular back-ups of all your important data, and store it in another location.
Secure your wireless network
Wi-Fi (wireless) networks at home are vulnerable to intrusion if they are not properly secured. Review and modify default settings. Public Wi-Fi, a.k.a. “Hot Spots”, are also vulnerable. Avoid conducting financial or corporate transactions on these networks.
Protect your e-identity
Be cautious when giving out personal information such as your name, address, phone number or financial information on the Internet. Make sure that websites are secure (e.g. when making online purchases) or that you’ve enabled privacy settings (e.g. when accessing/using social networking sites).
Avoid being scammed
Always think before you click on a link or file of unknown origin. Don’t feel pressured by any emails. Check the source of the message. When in doubt, verify the source. Never reply to emails that ask you to verify your information or confirm your user ID or password.
Call the right person for help
Don’t panic! If you are a victim, if you encounter illegal Internet content (e.g. child exploitation) or if you suspect a computer crime, identity theft or a commercial scam, report this to your local police. If you need help with maintenance or software installation on your computer, consult with your service provider or a certified computer technician
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Effects of Computer Crime
1. Loss of Revenue :
One of the main consequences of cyber crime on a company is a loss of revenue/income. This loss may be caused by an outside person who acquires sensitive financial information, using it to extract funds from an organization. It can also come about when a business's e-commerce site becomes compromised--while terminal, expensive income is lost when consumers are unable to utilize the site.
2. Wasted Time :
Another major consequence of cyber crime is the time that is wasted when Information Technology personnel must dedicate maximum part of their day handling such incidences. Rather than working on productive and creative measures for an organization, many Information
Technology staff members spend a great percentage of their time handling security breaches and other problems related with cyber crime.
3. Damaged Reputations :
In situations where customer records are compromised by a security contravene associated with cyber crime, a company's reputation can take a major batter. Customers whose credit cards or other monetary data become grabbed by hackers or other infiltrators drop assurance in an organization and often begin taking their business elsewhere.
4. Reduced Productivity :
Due to the safety measures that many companies must implement to neutralize cyber crime, there is often a pessimistic effect on employees' efficiency. This is because, due to many security reasons, employees must enter more passwords and execute other time-consuming acts in order to do their jobs. Every second wasted executing these acts is a second not spent working in a effective manner
5. Influence of Cyber Terrorism :
Cyber-terrorism can have a serious large-scale influence on significant numbers of people. It can weaken countries' economy greatly, thereby stripping their of its resources and making it more vulnerable to military attack.
Cyber-terror also affect internet-based businesses. Like brick and mortar retailers and service providers, most websites that produce income (whether by advertising, monetary exchange for goods or paid services) could stand to lose money in the event of downtime created by cyber criminals.
As internet-businesses have increasing economic importance to countries, what is normally cybercrime becomes more political and therefore "terror" related.
6. Impact on Government and Society :
Cyber crime has been increasing its convolution and financial expenses since corporations have began to use computers in the course of doing business.
As technology increases between governments that are caught up in international business, criminals have realized that this is a cost efficient method of making money.
This investigation and testing manual is meant to provide as a basic model on the lessons learned to set up governments, and their prosecutors, for combating cyber crime.To research deeply into computer technology requires both long learning and technical expertise. Therefore, as in most of the crimes that are technological in nature, or have technical aspects to them, such as bank hoax or murder investigations that necessitate the analysis of blood and spatter techniques, gun-shots that require extensive ballistics investigation, experts are advisable for use as an aid in directing your investigations, to act as a special aide in preparing for trial, and as an expert to testify in that trial.
However, experts are not absolutely required, principally in identifying basic components that make up a cyber crime, and on how to show the elements of that case. All of us know that computer crimes can run from the simple to the mega sophisticated. This does not mean they are not solvable, and understandable to the judiciary throughout any trial. The complication in these crimes should not be feared. All that is required is for you to comprehend the basic concepts explained in this manual, follow its simple set of laws and use the facts you have acquired. You will then be able to effectively investigate, organize and put on any case.
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Cause of Computer Crime
1. Passion of youngsters :
Cyber crimes can be committed for the sake of recognition. This is basically committed by youngsters who want to be noticed and feel among the group of the big and tough guys in the society. They do not mean to hurt anyone in particular; they fall into the category of the Idealists; who just want to be in spotlight.
2. Desire of Making quick money :
Another cause of cyber-crime is to make quick money. This group is greed motivated and is career criminals, who tamper with data on the net or system especially, e-commerce, e-banking data information with the sole aim of committing fraud and swindling money off unsuspecting customers.
3. Misconception of fighting a Just cause :
Thirdly, cyber-crime can be committed to fight a cause one thinks he believes in; to cause threat and most often damages that affect the recipients adversely. This is the most dangerous of all the causes of cyber-crime. Those involve believe that they are fighting a just cause and so do not mind who or what they destroy in their quest to get their goals achieved. These are the cyber-terrorists.
4. Capacity to store data in comparatively small space :
The computer has unique characteristic of storing data in a very small space. This affords to remove or derive information either through physical or virtual medium makes it much easily.
5. Confidential Information is online :
Confidential data from security firms, scientific databases, financial institutes and even governmental organizations is stored online and on networks. This allows cyber criminals to initiate unauthorized access and use it for their own needs. Complex technology can be manipulated and firewalls can be bypassed, allowing criminals to gain access to security codes, bank accounts and other information.
6. Negligence :
Sometimes simple negligence can give rise to criminal activities, such as saving a password on an official computer, using official data in a public place and even storing data without protecting it. The cyber criminal can take advantage of such negligence and use it to obtain, manipulate and forge information. Negligence is very closely connected with human conduct. It is therefore very probable that while protecting the computer system there might be any negligence, which in turn provides a Cyber Criminal to gain access and control over the computer system.
7. Complexity in understanding :
The computers work on operating systems and these operating systems in turn are composed of millions of codes. Human mind is fallible and it is not possible that there might not be a lapse at any stage. The cyber criminals take advantage of these lacunas and penetrate into the computer system.
8. Loopholes in system :
Operating systems have complex codes that can be decoded or manipulated to gain access to the system. There are always loopholes in security that a professional cyber criminal can find and hack into. The traditional bank robber researched the security system and took advantage of it; a cyber thief is not much different, except he can breach security virtually.
9. New Form of Crime :
There are so many modes of criminal activity on the Net that the traditional policing methods and the laws that bind criminals at times lose jurisdiction in cyber crime cases. This is why there are so many crimes being committed online.
10. Accessibility to Victims :
The amount of people online allow criminals to target their victims without being physically present. Police find it impossible to implicate people when the trail is online. Child pornography, pedophiles who bait their victim's online; rapists who meet their targets through online social networks and hackers who gather information and use it to their own criminal ends without ever being a part of the network are just a handful of criminal examples.
11. Inaccessibility to Criminals :
The problem encountered in guarding a computer system from unauthorized access is that there is every possibility of breach not due to human error but due to the complex technology. By secretly implanted logic bomb, key loggers that can steal access codes, advanced voice recorders; retina imagers etc. that can fool bio-metric systems and even bypass firewalls can also be utilized to get past many a security system. Though technology is improving there is a long way to go before cyber criminals can be policed vigilantly.
12. Lack of Evidence :
One cause of increasing cyber crime is the lack of evidence to bind the criminal by law. There are so many ways to hide the trail of a cyber crime and little to actually police the criminal. Consider a pedophile who baits his victim through email or social networks. The police can trace the information to the criminal, but unless solid physical evidence is found, the trail cannot be used in a court of law. Loss of evidence is a very common & obvious problem as all the data are routinely destroyed. Further collection of data outside the territorial extent also paralyses this system of Crime Investigation.
13. Drawbacks in judiciary system :
- Large number of vacancies in trial courts,
- Unwillingness of lawyers to become judges,
- Failure of the apex judiciary in filling vacant HC judges posts.
- Judiciary corruption
This delays the decision making and punishment and might also lead to wrong decisions. This encourages other criminals to be casual and fearless.
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MORE INFO:
The Causarion of Computer Crime
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/TA/hao/computer%20crime2.htm#The Causation of Computer
How to Overcome Cyber Crime Couses
http://technoblog.in/how-to-overcome-cyber-crime-causes-for-cyber-crime/#.Uo4kPMQbB94
Causes of Cyber Crime
http://science.opposingviews.com/causes-cyber-crime-1846.html
Its Causes
http://voices.yahoo.com/cyber-crime-its-causes-3430288.html
http://www.virtualqube.com/blog/causes-and-costs-of-cyber-crime/
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Cyber crimes Stories
Many cyber crimes stories already recorded by FBI .Here some stories that recorded in FBI files.
New Subjects Added to Cyber’s Most Wanted List
Five fugitives are added to FBI list for their roles in hacking and fraud crimes.New Internet Crime Initiative Combines Resources, Expertise
Pilot program in Utah forges closer link with state and local law enforcement partners.Election Hack: Stealing Votes the Cyber Way
How a student council candidate rigged his own election by stealing fellow students’ identities.Pirated Software May Contain Malware
Software bought on the cheap from unknown sellers may contain hidden dangers.Internet Crime in 2012
New report by Internet Crime Complaint Center shows victims lost an average of $4,600 in 2012.The Cyber Threat: Planning for the Way Ahead
Director says network intrusions pose urgent threat to nation’s security and economy.Sextortion Cons Like ‘Bieber Ruse’ Targeted Minor Girls
Tricks like an Alabama man’s claim to be Justin Bieber target minors on social websites.Cyber Division Focusing on Hackers and Intrusions
The FBI’s Cyber Division is focusing squarely on hackers and online intrusion threats.New Cyber Safety Website for Teachers, Students
FBI unveils revamped SOS website to help teachers educate students about cyber safety.New Internet Scam
“Drive-by” ransomware installs easily, locks computers, and demands payment. Also known as money pak virus.
History of Computer Crime
History of Computer Crime
Cyber
crime is an evil having its origin in the growing dependence on computers in
modern life. In a day and age when everything from microwave ovens and
refrigerators to nuclear power plants is being run on computers, cyber crime
has assumed rather sinister implications.
Types of Computer Crime
Hacking:
The activity of breaking into a computer system to gain an unauthorized access
is known as hacking. The act of defeating the security capabilities of a
computer system in order to obtain an illegal access to the information stored
on the computer system is called hacking. The unauthorized revelation of
passwords with intent to gain an unauthorized access to the private
communication of an organization of a user is one of the widely known computer
crimes. Another highly dangerous computer crime is the hacking of IP addresses
in order to transact with a false identity, thus remaining anonymous while
carrying out the criminal activities.
Phishing:
Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire sensitive information like usernames,
passwords and credit card details by disguising as a trustworthy source.
Phishing is carried out through emails or by luring the users to enter personal
information through fake websites. Criminals often use websites that have a
look and feel of some popular website, which makes the users feel safe to enter
their details there.
Computer
Viruses: Computer viruses are computer programs that can replicate themselves
and harm the computer systems on a network without the knowledge of the system
users. Viruses spread to other computers through network file system, through
the network, Internet or by the means of removable devices like USB drives and
CDs. Computer viruses are after all, forms of malicious codes written with an
aim to harm a computer system and destroy information. Writing computer viruses
is a criminal activity as virus infections can crash computer systems, thereby
destroying great amounts of critical data.
Cyber- stalking:The use of communication technology, mainly the Internet, to torture other individuals is known as cyberstalking. False accusations, transmission of threats and damage to data and equipment fall under the class of cyberstalking activities. Cyberstalkers often target the users by means of chat rooms, online forums and social networking websites to gather user information and harass the users on the basis of the information gathered. Obscene emails, abusive phone calls and other such serious effects of cyberstalking have made it a type of computer crime.
Identity
Theft: This is one of the most serious frauds as it involves stealing money and
obtaining other benefits through the use of a false identity. It is the act of
pretending to be someone else by using someone else's identity as one's own.
Financial identity theft involves the use of a false identity to obtain goods
and services and a commercial identity theft is the using of someone else's
business name or credit card details for commercial purposes. Identity cloning
is the use of another user's information to pose as a false user. Illegal
migration, terrorism and blackmail are often made possible by means of identity
theft.
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