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  • Virtual Crime in Numbers

    Süddeutsche Zeitung, Januar 10, 2015

    Internet-related crime stats
    Internet-related crime stats

    “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” has an infographic on Internet related crimes. The numbers displayed are about services targeted by phishing, which is unsurprisingly lead by email, the number of malware circulating, monetary value of damages through criminal activity, most hacked passwords and finally origin of attacks.  Source for these numbers are quoted on the bottom right: Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Bundeskriminalamt, Kaspersky Lab and Deutsche Telekom.

  • Computer related crime characteristics

    • Trap doors – potential offenders are system and application programmers
    • Trojan horses, viruses, worms, salamis and logic bombs – can be detected by comparing program code with backup copies of the same program
    • Masquerading – can be detected through password violations
    • Scanning – potential offenders are spies trying to access systems for targeted data
    • Dumpster diving – may be detected by analyzing the data left over after the job execution.

     

    • Timing attacks – potential offenders are advanced system analysts and computer programmers
    • Wiretapping or eavesdropping – may be detected by tracing origins of equipment and items used to commit the crime
    • Software piracy – commercial software purchasers and users are potential offenders
    • Excess privileges – potentially programmers with access to computer operations staff
    • Data diddling – possible evidence includes source and transaction data