Fraud

Barriers to entry are factors that prevent a startup from entering a particular market. Jack and Stephen Teeling faced two kinds of barriers to entry in the Irish whiskey business in 2012. The two barriers to entry were capital requirements, such as financial and human capital, and access to distribution channels. As in any industry, there are costs for starting and operating a business. Some of the high capital costs Jack and Stephen incurred are mostly start-up costs; High capital costs…

Miller, J. and J. Miller., (2009). 21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook. 1st ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp.466 - 471. In the book, J. Miller discusses the idea of criminology in the twenty-first century, since the arrival of computers in the 1970’s and with the further introduction of the web in the early 1990’s there was increased use of these technologies by criminals as a means of committing cybercrimes awhile masking their identity’s. The source addresses how cybercrime…

If a gamer was asked to describe this game in a single word, they would probably say “Hacking” The main character Aiden Pearce is on a mission for justice; with access to ctOS and skilled combat training. It is possible for him to use a smartphone to spy through mounted cameras, peer into the private lives of the city's citizens and stop anyone who gets in his way. The story line has many twists and turns, where Aiden Pierce’s mission is to find out who is responsible for a family tragedy…

I found an article on identity theft that ruined a man’s life. David Crouse was a victim of identity theft. Like many people today, he frequently shopped and did his banking online (Waters, 2010). It is believed to be a keystroke malware that infected his computer while he visited online sites (Waters, 2010). Someone had hacked into one of the sites he frequently visited and his computer got infected (Waters, 2010). The criminals were able to pick up all his personal information by…

This memo addresses a topic I have been thinking about for a while. I have not previously mentioned this topic because I didn’t think much of it at first and being a fairly new staff member I didn’t want to offend anyone. However, this topic has been stuck in my mind for a while, slowly festering. I now strongly feel I must mention something in order to clear my mind and get this topic off my conscious. The topic is my last couple days working with Janis Tipton and the circumstances…

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a financial services firm and banking institution headquartered in New York City. Under the Chase brand, the company offers credit card services, retail banking, and commercial banking. Under the J. P. Morgan brand, the company offers treasury services, private banking, private wealth management, asset management, and investment banking. Over 12,000 companies have been absorbed over the years into what is now JPMorgan Chase & Co., the oldest being The Bank of The…

In December of 2009 a company named AvMed, which is a Florida based not-for-profit health plan provider, had two laptops stolen (Anderson,2010; “We help our members”, n.d.). One of the laptops was recovered and it contained encrypted patient information. However, the second laptop was not encrypted and it contained names, Social Security numbers, addresses, birthdays and other healthcare information. Initial reports indicated a little over two hundred thousand clients were impacted, but a…

In his revealing book Future Crimes, Marc Goodman shows us the threat that we, as inhabitants of this new technological world, either are facing or going to face in future years. Goodman started his cybercrime resume with the Los Angeles Police Department. After the LAPD, he spent years working for federal agencies such as the FBI and the secret service with on their computer crime units. When he began working with the computer crime units, cybercrimes were still in their infancy, now he has…

Internet Security/Cyber criminal 1. Explain how Internet security measures can actually create opportunities for criminals to steal, rather than prevent them. The onslaught of security breaches on the internet make the threats to e-commerce very real for business, consumers, and government, and politician. There are individuals that hack into computers as well as the networks of businesses and government agencies. The problem is that sensitive data can be stolen and/or destroyed. The outlines…

There are incidents of pipeline theft in the United States, but it is not as prevalent as in other countries such as Mexico and Nigeria. See Dan Burges, Cargo Theft, Loss Prevention and Supply Chain Security 244 (2011). Pipeline accidents are more common, and the primary cause of pipeline accidents has been excavation damage by third parties, otherwise referred to as “outside force” damage. Carol M. Parker, The Pipeline Industry Meets Grief Unimaginable: Congress Reacts with the Pipeline Safety…