Theft

In today's era, it remains pertinent to securitize one's possessions. Moreover, everyone remains susceptible to being robbed or having things stolen from them. With that being said, numerous security companies exist with the intention of extorting money from their clients. To expound further, these companies seek to use their clients only for monetary gain. As a result, numerous consumers remain betrayed. Therefore, they tend to shy away from the security industry. Fortunately, a significant…

to commence their crimes. It is not just the faceless organization targeted by cybercriminals but individuals who feel the repercussion well after being victimized. This paper will review computer crimes that involve identity theft, cyberstalking and child abuse. Identity theft can rob someone of their life savings, ruin credit ratings which can effect careers and weaken purchase power. Cyberstalking victims face tremendous stress living under a cloud of consistent threat to their life and their…

Theft in Music Counter Although some suppose that illegally downloading music is detrimental to an artist’s and the music industry’s monetary gains, many can argue that illegal downloads do not damage earnings, but in fact allows profits to expand.With the widespread diffusion of illegal downloads, the excessive growth of piracy leads an artist's income to plummet (qtd. in The Theft) and in turn corrupts the revenue earned by the music industry (qtd.in Developing an Argument). With an artist…

1. Why do you think that countries like China and other poor or developing nations are havens for intellectual property theft and film/video pirating? In China and other poor nations IP laws are either non-existent or not enforced. For instance, Chinese government has no interest in enforcing these laws, since Chinese businesses hold few copyrights (and those are rigorously protected). They see protection of intellectual property as a responsibility of the countries who want to conduct business…

Having an effective security system for your organization is one of the most critical issues that the government and businesses face in this new era of technology. Technology has become the pivotal point of everything; it is a part of daily lives. There was a time where your cellphone was just a phone, now it’s a portable computer that is able to monitor your movement and health status (Jones & Aiken, 2014). In a world where millions of computers are connected to the Internet and one time,…

Grand Theft Auto V is a video game designed by Rockstar North and was released in 2013 to critical acclaim. The game revolves around three protagonists or antagonist (depending on your views) named Franklin, Michael, and Trevor who are all on a mission to succeed in the city of saints, Los Santos, which in itself is a satirical reimagining of modern day Los Angeles. The game starts off with a bank robbery that occurs in the small city of North Yankton. Here you are introduced to Michael, Trevor,…

associate screening, insider employee theft, and failure to update information security methods (Matwyshyn, 2009, p. 584). A breach incident is the unauthorized access to confidential or sensitive information which can result in the compromise or probable compromise of this data. This Information which could be confidential, protected, or sensitive can include personal identity information, health information, intellectual property or professional trade secrets of an organization, and…

patient records more vulnerable to data breaches. The top causes of medical data breaches that compromised PHI included theft, computer hacking, error by third-party custodians, and human negligence. Theft can be from an insider working at a health care facility who abuses their access privileges to information. Such employees seek information for the purpose of committing fraud. Theft can also be attempted by an outsider who can physically enter the organization and steal equipment such as…

In most cases victims are unaware that they are even victims until it is too late to do anything about the theft and there is already a multitude of debt built up in our name. There are so many different ways that identity theft is done these days that the best line of defense is to stay visitant and keep a journal of all expenditures, and check your credit reports regularly. In this chapter we learn that Staying alert…

Most people can remember the Target breach, whether they were affected by it or not. Personally, this was the first big data breach that I remember, and I was one of the millions affected by it. While I do not shop at Target often of course I bought one thing from the store during the time of the breach. I was a nervous wreck, my wife was even worse. Luckily the only thing affected was our nerves and not our personal identities. Since then, it seems like data breaches happen every day. It is sad…