Ryan LeBlanc
Forensics
Chapter 1 Review
1/6/2015
Practical Exercise:
Child pornography is a crime how has not been mentioned in this chapter. This crime falls under the second category because the computer is being used as a tool to commit a crime. They use the computers to sell illegal content over the internet.
Critical Thinking:
Sex trafficking is a major issue.
Review Questions: 1. Cybercrime is the use of computers and other like technologies to commit crimes. 2. Cybercrime: All digital crimes.
Traditional Crime: All non-digital crimes. 3. a. Fraud – this can now be accomplished from your computer by hacking emails and other people’s computers and getting innocent peoples personal information to steal and identity or money. b. Terrorism – Now with the advancement of computer hacking, hackers are able to access restricted networks and gain a wealth of top secret information from various governments around the world. c. Illegal Gambling – This went from playing in the back room at a Chinese Laundromat to being able to gamble illegally right from your home computer or cell phone. 4. d. Category one: Computer used as target of the crime. This includes: Hacking, botnetting, DoS/DDoS, or virsuses/Trojans/worms. e. Category two: Computer used as the tool to commit crime. This includes: Copyright infringement, phishing, cyberbullying of any kind, illegal gambling. 5. Hacking a website and holding it hostage from the original host, also changing files and other things on the site. 6. Malware causes damage to a computer or invades a computer to steal information. Some examples are: spyware, Trojans, viruses, and botnets. 7. A botnet is when someone can take control or a large group of computers and basically turn them into zombies and be used to attack networks without the users even noticing.