Identity theft

“Free cancer in a bottle.” “Free infertility in a pill.” “Free disorder in a magazine.” This is what many advertisements would read if companies would tell their customers the truth about the precautions and terrible side effects of many products. Since no one would buy a disease or cancer in a bottle, many companies try to hide and conceal information about their products in an attempt to get the customer to buy their product. In doing so, they commit a type of customer fraud by making false…

There are many reasons why the Internet is a great asset to the world for example web searching for a particular product to buy, researching a paper for school, and going on social media to contact family and friends. On the other hand, there is another reason why the Internet is negligent like seeing personal private things. Josh Such in his “The Internet Hasn’t Killed Privacy – But It Has Changed It Forever”, addresses the topic about how the internet is not dead and explains that not enough…

Personal data is important no matter who you are. The chance of hackers accessing your information and handing it out to whomever they please to is a scary and real thing. Watching what athletes participate in on their free time is absurd. The collages signing contracts with companies to do so, are no longer protecting their students. There is not, and never will be, a way for electronic data, as they are using, to be one hundred percent safe from falling into the wrong hands.…

Essentially the applicant workflow process represents the method for managing a candidate within a requisition. Each step is comprised of four action statuses: initial, intermediate, completion and non-selection. During each step, the candidate’s status changes and eventually moves to completion, withdraw or not selected status. Current Applicant Workflow Process In 2013, GSU introduced an Oracle Taleo Cloud Service to streamline the hiring process. This service starts with an online applicant…

Not all websites are created equal. There are many reasons for this inconsistency in website quality, including: age of information, how often the website is updated, and the credibility of the author. For this reason finding an article using a simple google search is difficult, because you will never know if the article you are looking at is spreading misinformation, biased views, or even plagiarism. On a controversial issue such as the NSA, (National Security Agency) a government agency…

For this specific case, I would need forensic tools that allow me to conduct an efficient incident investigation. The two main software I would use for this forensic investigation case are EnCase by Guidance Software and the Forensic Toolkit by AccessData which both provide hard drive imaging, graphics searching, keyword searches, and MD5 & SHA checksums (Albrecht, n.d.). Other tools I would use including FTK Imager, SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit, Helix 3 Pro, Volatility, PTK, COFEE, and…

Digital devices today, such as smartphones and computers, contain a plethora of information about its owner. During a forensic investigation, the investigator will happen upon many pieces of information that could be a personal secret, trade secret, or otherwise sensitive information. They will then have to determine the course of their actions based on the information that they come across. Digital devices contain a vast amount of information, much of which is irrelevant to a forensic…

Background According to the United States Code under Section 1030, computer fraud is a serious offense and regarded as an illegal act. The United States Code addresses fraud and any related activities in connection with computers. Hence, computer fraud is defined as a deed of exploiting computers, internet, internet devices, and internet services to defraud people, companies or government agencies. Some of the methods and techniques used are DDoS, phishing, social engineering, and viruses to…

some cases it doesn't even matter what we change it too, because the government look at us as a number. Our social security number is how they identify us. Or in court, your identified like a case number. Rachel Ingber once said “ a name represents identity, a deep feeling and holds tremendous significance to its owner.” Sierra Marie Smith holds my deep feeling and significance. These three little words have three huge meanings. Like others, your name has huge meanings, for the simple fact of it…

Clicking on Enticing Ads Clicking on advertisements can sometimes be a problem because they might be fake advertisements. Usually advertisements that sound too good to be true are a lie and can have viruses or hackers. By clicking these ads, it could damage your computer and even hack into credit card numbers or accounts. This is why you should be careful when clicking an advertisement from a company you never heard of. Always check advertisement companies using Google before clicking an ad.…