Alternatively, organizations should practice the principle of least privilege. This privilege restricts people from logging into systems that have administrator rights (Haller, 2010)
In addition, the scholars have suggested that these risks result to insecurity challenges for the information society. Although governments have made efforts to enhance security on their own computer, networks to prevent attackers from gaining access to computer systems (Li, 2006)
In fact, the concept of risk management was only used in business, or organizations dealing with production and such; however, with the advancement in technology the concept has been utilized and integrated in cyber security. It is because cyber attacks are possible threats to the success of an organization, mainly because it compromises the security of the organization (Kenneth & Jane, 2000)
In addition, it is essential to know that we provide IT personnel for several government and private contracts. In fact, we encounter classified government information at various levels, in our course of work (Moore, 2005)
On the other hand, American States have also improved cyber security by increasing the visibility of public companies with weak security. For example, California enacted an Act, which required companies to maintain personal information of the citizens, but in case of a security violation, they must disclose the details of the event (Paul, 2012)
In addition, the case represents the methods used by law enforcement agencies to catch up with cyber criminals. Overall, it is also clear that the court has accommodated cyber crime in its provision, and cyber criminals can now be prosecuted (Schell & Martin, 2004)
This has made such security violations to have multi-dimensional impacts on individual internet users, businesses, time, human resources, loss of money, and psychological losses. This, on another hand, shows that the internet and the superior information infrastructure are not short of security violations (Wilson & Kiy, 2014)
But there are serious threats and because of that managers and executives are not the right people to be on top of the threats; the company should have a security expert on board (Nykodym, 44). Investigative journalist Bert Latamore explains that cyber criminals are acquiring business information like "…unannounced quarterly results, engineering and design drawings for new products," and updated business strategies (Latamore, 2010, p
It also proposes strategies that businesses can embrace that will (in many cases) prevent the intrusion of cyber criminals into servers and hard drives. What particular cyber crimes do businesses / individuals need to be wary of? An article in the peer-reviewed journal Performance Improvement (Nykodym, et al
"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)
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)
Over Forty Years of Violence As soon as computers began to be put into use they became the targets of human frustration by disgruntled operators, employees, or business customers. Beginning in the 1960s, computer systems all over the world began to be shot with guns, bombed, held hostage, kidnapped for ransom, burned, stabbed, and sabotaged (Kabay, 2008, p
Some gains have been realized, such as stemming the losses incurred from identity theft, but the virtual landscape changes so rapidly that new threats and criminal tactics are constantly emerging. Cybercrime, Cybercriminals, and Cybercops Cybercrime is formally defined by the Canadian Police College as illegal activity which depends materially on the use of computers to commit crimes or when computers are the object of the crime (Kowalski, 2008, p
S. households were estimated to have been victimized by identity theft (Langton, 2011, p
Today Poulsen is an investigative journalist and editor for Wired News and SecurityFocus. Law Enforcement Challenges Local law enforcement agencies were the primary government bodies that investigated cybercrimes prior to the advent of the internet, but once the internet became widespread, cybercrimes took on an international character and forced cooperation between law enforcement agencies scattered around the world (Schjolberg, 2008, p
What is Cyberspace Law? The Cyberspace law, also known as the cyber law, is a piece of legislation that regulates transactions and communications over the Internet or over other interconnected devices and technologies. This legislation protects members of the public, particularly internet users from illegal activities by hackers and other persons or entities with ill-intentions (LaMance, 2015)