942 Search Results for Internet Fraud
According to an article entitled "Three Vulnerability Assessment Tools Put to the Test"
Vulnerability assessment systems scan operating systems and applications for potential problems, such as the use of default passwords or configurations and open Continue Reading...
39). Credit card fraud, though, is not playground for banks for numerous reasons, including: (a) online payment fraud erodes consumer confidence and trust in their brands; for many consumers, a breach of security prompts a knee-jerk reaction of clos Continue Reading...
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White Collar Crime Prevention
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white-collar crime. Specifically, it will focus on white-collar crime in America, including reasons why it occurs so frequently in the United States, and what business, industry, and the courts can do to combat it. White-collar crime is not a new id Continue Reading...
Part of the problem is that America's national crime reporting systems, such as the National Incident-Based Crime Reporting System and the Uniform Crime Report Program managed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in cooperation with thousand Continue Reading...
CRIME VICTIMS Crime Victims: An IntroductionThe particular problems faced by persons who experience hare crime are broadly characterized by the trauma and fear they go through resulting from the crime (Reilich & Chermak, n.a.). The fear of visiting o Continue Reading...
online auction company called eBay. The information gathered on eBay was gathered through various techniques including the Ten Commandments of case analysis, ESP-TE, PETR-PEC and AM-FAMUS. The report tries to therefore present eBay's strategic and l Continue Reading...
The criminal acts within those legitimate realms continue to be more familiar and ongoing. When there are rampage on the WCCs and Organized crimes, the line existing between them and other groups they infiltrate in will definitely start blurring res Continue Reading...
Child and Elder Abuse
Child Abuse
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) publishes a website called healthychildren.org. -- and the section called "What do I need to know about child abuse?" provides excellent information on the particulars of ch Continue Reading...
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IV. SOLUTIONS for COPING WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKING CRIMES
The work of Roger Plant entitled: "Economic and Social Dimension of Human Trafficking: Broadening the Perspective" states that the "narrowest perspective, actually quite Continue Reading...
Securing Internet commerce is most likely the biggest challenge that software development companies have yet faced. The security problems affecting Internet commerce involve credit card transactions, which raise concerns involving privacy issues, in Continue Reading...
Spamming involves receiving deceptive mail like one has won the lottery then engineers ask for information to receive payment so as to gain financially or for social gains. For fake spyware, they claim to have utilities that are anti-spyware but are Continue Reading...
It maintains these features for health information under the authority of "covered" units such as health care centre, plan or provider. Online storages such as Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault do not lie within the bounds of such kinds of un Continue Reading...
Internet Risk and Cybercrime at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Internet Risk
Cybercrime
Today, the mission of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as taken from President Lincoln's second inaugural address is, "To care for him who Continue Reading...
Civil penalties, if pursued by an organization such as the RIAA, can range from a minimum of $750 per song to thousands of dollars per song. Due to the civil lawsuits filed by the RIAA, piracy awareness rose from 35% to 72%. The RIAA has since stopp Continue Reading...
Retinal scans are particularly profound as it is unique to the individual. From a security standpoint, this access control method has the most potential as it is difficult to replicate a finger print, or retinal scan.
4) The forth factor is someone Continue Reading...
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was enacted into law in 1986 to deal with the hacking of computer systems operated by the American government and certain financial institutions. Through its enactment, the legislation made it a federal offense to access Continue Reading...
security threat is a potential happening that may have an undesirable effect on the system, its resources, or the organization as a whole. Vulnerability is the weakness that makes it possible for the threat to occur. There are a number of threats th Continue Reading...
Sony Reels From Multiple Hacker Attacks
In the past, many organizations - from Sony to NASA to the New York Times - have fallen victim to hacking incidents. In addition to costing organizations money, data breaches have also taken a significant toll Continue Reading...
Furthermore, there are genuine potential dangers and consequences from creating digital profiles and conducting personal business/interactions on the internet. The personal information can be misused and abused by others such as marketing companies, Continue Reading...
Businesses and other establishments have now turned to fraud detection as a way to address their fraud issues. "In contrast fraud detection involves identifying fraud as quickly as possible once it has been perpetrated. In practice it must be used Continue Reading...
Cybercrime, Cybercriminals, And Cybercops
Cybercrime
Cybercrime has long been perceived to represent new crimes arising from the emergence of technological advancement, but an examination of the history of cybercrime reveal that its roots are as an Continue Reading...
i.e. modifying the domain name system.
7. DNS-Based Phishing ("Pharming"): This offense is based on interference in the domain name searching process by modifying the domain name resolution sending the user to a different IP address.
8. Content-In Continue Reading...
Intent to perform a greater good would not affect the possibility of being exposed to a prison sentence of up to 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000, plus possible penalties under state law.
Montana compares this legislation with that of the regu Continue Reading...
Advances in electronic communication have made it significantly easier for white-collar criminals to commit fraud. The crux of this point is based on the fact that virtually all aspects of electronic communication are stored and accessible to someone Continue Reading...
Cyber Crime Task Force
"Are computer vulnerabilities growing faster than measures to reduce them? Carelessness in protecting oneself, tolerance of bug-filled software, vendors selling inadequately tested products, or the unappreciated complexity of Continue Reading...
WorldCom
Prior to the corporate financial scandal, WorldCom was one of the largest long distance telephone companies (Reuters, 2003). Initially headquartered in Mississippi it later moved to Virginia. The company grew fast by acquiring other compan Continue Reading...
In the late 1990s, this was not a problem as the stock was continuing to climb to all-time highs. However, once the economy began to slow, is when this strategy backfired by forcing them to issues more stock to cover these losses. As shares were dec Continue Reading...
IT Ethics -- Annotated Bibliography
Bowie, Norman E. (2005). Digital Rights and Wrongs: Intellectual Property in the Information
Age. Business and Society Review, 110(1), 77-96.
Norman Bowie takes great pains in his peer-reviewed article to point Continue Reading...
Once your personal or financial information has been compromised, it may take months and even years to secure them again. This may involve filing fraud case with your bank, information everyone about your stolen SSN and generally avoiding credit car Continue Reading...
Growth Aided by Data Warehousing
Adaptability of data warehousing to changes
Using existing data effectively can lead to growth
Uses of data warehouses for Public Service
Getting investment through data warehouse
Using Data Warehouse for Busines Continue Reading...
identity is a means of classifying an individual when it comes to private matter and the government. How a government identifies someone or an institution, is through the use of an identity card. An identity card has a serial number and a picture th Continue Reading...
Political Scandals in Canada
A Political Scandal Involving Fraud
During the federal election in Canada in 2011 there was an electoral fraud issue that became known as the "Robocalls Scandal." This fraudulent activity took place in Ontario, in a tow Continue Reading...
In many ways, students live both in the land-based or physical world as well as in the virtual world; leading what some considers parallel lives.
Helliwell & Putman (2004) posit that social networking sites may offer an avenue for the developm Continue Reading...
To offer an information security awareness training curriculum framework to promote consistency across government (15).
Security awareness is needed to ensure the overall security of the information infrastructure. Security awareness programs is t Continue Reading...
Contracts Law
Case Study- Contracts Law
There were two offers. There is an offer is a meeting of the minds can be reached by the recipient of the offer accepting the terms of the offer. The first offer was by Galaxy Computer store and consisted of Continue Reading...
Phishing Problem in Internet Security
The number of people browsing the net across the world is increasing with each passing day. There are numerous new internet users each day, and these new users are not aware of the challenges or security issues Continue Reading...
" (Muntenu, 2004)
According to Muntenu (2004) "It is almost impossible for a security analyst with only technical background to quantify security risk for intangible assets. He can perform a quantitative or qualitative evaluation using dedicated sof Continue Reading...