Tag: crime
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Virtual Crime in Numbers
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Januar 10, 2015 “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…
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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…