Phishing

terrorism. Technology is the driving force in society communication and internet surfing being a focal point of how terrorism can be expressed or how terrorist reach out to their followers. Cyberterrorism come in the form denial of service attacks, phishing attacks to hold one’s data captive for a payment, the leaking off classified information. In Cyberterrorist eyes, they are not physically hurting anyone or killing someone, they are simply typing keystrokes on a keyboard to get the results…

product modification (New Coke), unethical behavior, or being socially irresponsible. This is critical today as word of mouth has social media to use as a platform whether legitimate or not. Consumers can also be unethical (bots, pirating, and phishing) and companies must take steps to protect themselves from such behavior. Consumers should research companies and make educated decisions on which ones to trust. The buyer must beware especially during on-line transactions when dealing with…

 The Bank NSP Case In this case the management trainee in a bank who used to exchange some E-mails with his fiancé using the computers of his company. After sometime, they broke up and the girl developed a grudge against him and fraudulently created some E-mail IDs and sent E-mails to the boy’s foreign clients, using the bank’s computers. Due to this the boy’s company lost many clients and a case was filed against the bank in court. The bank was held liable for those E-mails sent using Bank’s…

To build a stereotype of the APT originator and perpetrator, we need to analyzed the APT motivations. Then, we will analyze their potential victims. Finally use these motivations against the potential victims to describe possible attackers that can use an APT against their victims. APTs share common motivations, but they may have different purposes. The purposes are defined as the tactical advantages they gain to fulfill their objectives. The objectives are defined by the sponsor’s needs for use…

The four most vital pieces of information for an identity thief is an individual’s name, home address, social security number, a bank account number. A thief may not be able to obtain all four pieces, but other personal information such as a date of birth may be stolen instead. In today’s contemporary society, there are three main forms of identity theft. The first and also most common form of theft is an individual’s financial identity. This form of identity theft is most widely known because…

Home Depot appropriately handled its data breach crisis through the company’s quick acting with an initial statement to the general public and through crisis management emails sent to its customers. In Home Depot’s initial statement spokeswoman Paula Drake reassured their customers that the company had been actively working with forensics and security teams since they had become aware of a potential breach (Li, 2014). According to W. Timothy Coombs, Ph.D. in his research paper Crisis Management…

Cultural effects that can influence threat actors include religion, poverty, ethics and poor law enforcement are all influences that have affected ISIS followers. ISIS is growing faster than other similar terrorist organizations such as Al-Queda because of its use of cultural influences. The Islamic State began to rise when their countries were in time of war, a time when people lack leadership and law enforcement. This is also a time when there may be a lot of poverty as well. Through its use…

Some of the most common tactics are the following: Phishing, Pretexting, Spam, Shoulder Surfing and Tailgating. Phishing is very easy to pull off, and can trick many people. “Phishing is when a malicious party sends a fraudulent email disguised as a legitimate email, often purporting to be from a trusted source.” (SearchSecurity.techtarget.com). Most of the time the…

This is a textbook phishing attack – which is when a malicious user attempts to gain information (such as username/password combinations) by pretending to be a legitimate entity (in this case, the campus helpdesk). The ultimate goal for a malicious user in this scenario is…

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