Jove Cook
IS4670 Cybercrime Forensics
Unit 1 Discussion 1
Common Data Threats and Cybercrimes

This paper is to discuss data threats and cybercrimes and the individuals and organizations that are impacted by data exposures using the provided text sheet titled “IS4670: Unit 1 Discussion 1 Common Data Threats and Cybercrimes.” The questions that will be addressed for each example scenario are as follows: What type(s) of data threat and/or cybercrime(s) that played a key role in the data exposure? Who or what the exposure affected? (Such as individuals, corporations, and more.) What are the possible consequences of the data exposures?
Example Scenarios: 1. An E-mail scam asks employees to verify their account settings. When employees respond, they provide their computer user name and password.
Data Threat and/or Cybercrime that played a key role in the data exposure: * Phishing, Social engineering, Spyware/Adware, Uniform resource locator (URL) injectors and browser redirectors, and Viruses.
Who or what the exposure affected: * Organizations that process and store sensitive data, such as government agencies, corporations, e-commerce Web sites, infrastructure organizations, like oil and gas producers and transporters, medical providers, and power plants * Anyone who is gullible, greedy, desperate, uninformed, or inexperienced. * The employees and the corporation they work for.
Possible consequences: * With the employees giving out their computer user name and passwords to an unknown entity, that entity could use that information to commit the following cybercrimes: Hacking, Identity Theft, Intellectual property theft, Software piracy, Spamming, and Transmission of malware. 2. Someone attacks a university computer. He gains access to the records of over 30,000 students and staff members. These records include names, photographs, and Social Security numbers.
Data Threat and/or Cybercrime that played a key role in the data exposure: * Backdoors and trapdoors, Exploits, Keystroke loggers, Logic bombs, Malicious code, Rootkits, Social engineering, Spyware/Adware, Trojan horses, Uniform resource locator (URL) injectors and browser redirectors, Viruses, and Worms.
Who or what the exposure affected: * Anyone who has a bank account or medical insurance can be a target for identity thieves; school-age children can be targets of child exploiters. * Organizations that process and store sensitive data, such as government agencies, corporations, e-commerce Web sites, infrastructure organizations, like oil and gas producers and transporters, medical providers, and power plants. * The University along with its students and staff members.
Possible consequences: * With the use of this type of information an unknown entity could commit various types of cybercrimes such as: Child exploitation/abuse/pornography, Cyberstalking, Cyberwarfare, Extortion, Fraud, Gambling over the Internet, Identity theft, Sale and purchase of narcotics over the Internet, Spamming, and Transmission of malware. 3. A company that processes credit cards stores unencrypted account information on its servers. Attackers gain access to the servers, exposing over 40 million accounts.
Data Threat and/or Cybercrime that played a key role in the data exposure: * Backdoors and trapdoors, Exploits, Keystroke loggers, Logic bombs, Malicious code, Rootkits, Social engineering, Spyware/Adware, Trojan horses, Uniform resource locator (URL) injectors and browser redirectors, Viruses, and Worms.
Who or what the exposure affected: * Organizations that process and store sensitive data, such as government agencies, corporations, e-commerce Web sites, infrastructure organizations, like oil and gas producers and transporters, medical providers, and power plants. * Anyone who has a bank account or medical insurance can be a target for identity thieves; school-age children can be targets of child exploiters. * Anyone who is gullible, greedy, desperate, uninformed, or inexperienced. * The company storing the credit card account information, the credit card companies, and each of the individual credit card account owners.
Possible consequences: * An unknown entity with this information can commit the following cybercrimes: Child exploitation/abuse/pornography, Cyberstalking, Cyberwarfare, Extortion, Fraud, Gambling over the Internet, Identity theft, Sale and purchase of narcotics over the Internet, Spamming, and Transmission of malware.