4 million debit and credit card information were compromised between December 2012 and March, 2013, according to a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Gustin, 2013)
What was once fleeting is now permanent. And what was once trustworthy is now unreliable" (Lipton, 2001)
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 network connectivity has led to…abuse…" (Lukasik, 2011)
What personnel and skills will be needed to investigate cyber crimes? Computer forensics -- dealing with evidence and legal processes -- must be a key part of the task force's efforts. A computer forensics specialist "…will take several careful steps to identify & #8230;and retrieve possible evidence" and also he or she will locate "hidden" or "deleted" or "encrypted" files (Osuagwu, et al
That is, users of Facebook and Linked In and other social media sites are being targeted because their personal information is so readily available. The second kind of cybersecurity threats Teller warns about involved "Advanced Persistent Threats" (APTs); these are highly sophisticated and "carefully constructed" threats to corporations and governments in which a "low-and-slow" approach is used so they are difficult to detect (Teller, 2013)
"Court papers described the men as kingpins of Russian computer crime who hacked into the networks of at least 40 U.S. companies and then attempted to extort money" (Brunker, 2000)
The position entailed "a few good hackers who could break into the networks of potential customers as part of an effort to persuade those companies to hire Invita to keep hackers out. Ivanov was familiar with the tactic" (Jahnke, 2005)
"But Chelyabinsk, a Stalinist burg located in the Ural Mountains, is a pretty bleak place to grow up. The town has twice endured nuclear catastrophe -- an arms plant dumped waste in a local lake for years, and in 1957 a nearby nuclear weapons factory showered the vicinity with 70 tons of radioactive dust -- making Chelyabinsk one of the world's most polluted cities" (Koerner, 2002)
"According to court documents filed in the case, the FBI and Department of Justice lured two suspected Russian hackers to Seattle with job offers at a fictitious security company. After monitoring the duo's connection to two servers in Russia, the FBI used the suspects' passwords to download incriminating data from those servers" (Lemos, 2001)
These crimes are usually solved by the investigators in such a manner that they back trap the IP addresses on the basis of the data which is present in the header of these anonymous emails. Although, at times the information which is gathered from the IP address isn't enough to identify the culprit in case that the information is sent from a proxy server or if the computer used to send the email has more than one user (Fouss et al
Extracting the particular writing traits or writing styles from the written documents of an individual can be made use of in order to distinguish one person from another. There are 5 main categories that the writing styles can be categorized into, these categories are: structural, namely lexical, idiosyncratic features, stylometric and content-specific features (Hu et al
Decision trees and 3. Support vector machine and its alternatives (Iqbal et al
(7) The very existence of working European examples of data retention laws and the environment of heightened sensitivity to security threats increases the probability that the United States will consider adopting a data retention law. (8) In some cases electronic surveillance may be the only way to determine if a crime has been committed (Crump)
Cybercrime and Cybercrime forensics Cybercrime involves a plethora of crimes including everything from the creation and spreading of worms and viruses to identity theft. According to the Department of Justice cybercrime is defined as "any violations of criminal law that involve a knowledge of computer technology for their perpetration, investigation, or prosecution (Ditzion, et al
In the case of businesses many have hired cybercrime investigators to find out who the perpetrators are and how their computer networks were breeched. According to an article entitled "The Role of Organizations in Identity Theft Response: The Organization-Individual Victim Dynamic ," those that investigate cybercrime are often called upon by the victimized company through private firms that specialize in computer forensics examinations (Lacey et al
Another type of cybercrime forensics involves tracking down those that download child pornography. According to an article entitled "DoD targets child porn on military PCs" the Defense Cyber Crime Center, is seeking to quickly investigate child pornography cases with a new software tool developed under the military's Project KIDS (Known Image Database Systems) initiative (Messmer)
Sometimes, the cyber attacker is a recently laid-off system administrator whose remote-account privileges still are active, or perhaps he created back doors to the network. Organized crime groups also can be behind security breaches (Panczenco)
It's all there. Like shattered and lost dinosaur bones found and reconstructed as a whole fossil, the files are recreated like new (Reich-Hale)
This is in response to a series of espionage attacks that many suspect China was behind. The Stuxnet worm, which attacked industrial computer systems manufactured by Siemens, was believed to have been developed by a team of around a dozen programmers working for about six months at a cost of approximately 3 million dollars, to primarily attack Iran's nuclear program (Hesseldahl, 2010)
2-6). The Constantly Changing Virtual Landscape In the United States, the magnitude of the threat motivated President Obama to declare the appointment of a CyberCzar to help coordinate law enforcement efforts to combat cybercrime (James, 2009)