use all necessary means—diplomatic, informational, military, and economic—as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law." Anderson, 2012 Hacker Culture and Mitigation: Nuclear Power Facility Introduction In the past few years cyber warfare has been at an all-time high. War is no longer just bombs and weapons, but targeting a nation’s critical infrastructure as a means to benefit the other. Lately the most valuable target has been Nuclear power facilities. The largest attack on
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in the introduction of new ‘metadata’ storage law. This new law means that both security and policing agencies will be allowed to access up to two years of individuals metadata, to supposedly make it easier to stop any terrorist attacks and serious crimes from happening. There has been many debates in Australia about
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effort to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the financial institutions, cyber terrorists have taken an active role declaring war on one of our nation's critical key infrastructure. There are major risks in the financial industry that are causing the institutions to invest more into the protection of their assets which are in jeopardy of compromise every time a cyber attack occurs. Consumers want to know that their money is protected when they put in a financial institution
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including technology. Now the power of computers is being used for many criminal activities such as cybercrimes. Cyber crime is any criminal act dealing with computers and networks. It also includes traditional crimes conducted through the Internet. For example, hate crimes, telemarketing and Internet fraud, identity theft, hacking and credit card account thefts are considered to be cyber crimes; when the illegal activities are committed through the use of a computer and the Internet. It is no longer a
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Is Cyber crime a serious and growing threat? 1. INTRODUCTION Cyber crime cannot be clearly defined but all the definitions that are attributed to it basically boil down to the following: “an unlawful act wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both" (Dubey 2004). On the other hand, ‘threat’, in this context, can be construed as “something likely to cause damage or danger” (Online dictionary 2014). Generally speaking, any unlawful act is expected to cause harm and cyber crime is no
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2 Reasons of cybercrime……………………………………………………………..……………2-3 Offences of cybercrime under ICT Act-2006……………………………………………………3 Penalties of cybercrime under ICT Act-2006 ……………………………………………………4 Cyber Tribunal …………………………………………………………………………………...5 Cyber appellate Tribunal ………………………………………………………………………….5 Recent condition of cyber law in Bangladesh……………………………………………………..6 Recommendations……………………..………………………………………………………….6 Conclusion ………………………..………………………………………………………………7 Bibliography …………….………………………………………………………………………
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Computer Crimes Keshia Lubin Strayer University Abstract Computer crime is any crime that has to do with a computer and a network. Computer crimes are criminal activities which involve the use of information technology to get illegal or unauthorized access to a a computer system with the mind set of damaging, deleting, and altering computer data. Computer crimes are include but are not limited to electronic frauds, misuse of devices, identity theft and data. Computer crimes do not
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Cyberwar consists of information terrorism, semantic attack, simulation warfare and Gibson warfare. Typically Cyberwar is warfare, or hostile influence between attack- and defence programs in computers, computer networks and communication systems. For many, the term cyber war conjures up images of deadly, malicious programmes causing computer systems to freeze, weapon systems to fail, thwarting vaunted technological prowess for a bloodless conquest. This picture, in which cyber war is isolated from broader
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Computer Crimes Andy Berg Professor Gregorio Chavarria CIS Information Technology and Crime 15 January 2012 Defining computer crime effectively is a daunting and difficult task. Nevertheless there are four general categories of criminal crime, including (1) the computer as an instrument of crime, (2) the computer as a target, (3) the computer as incidental to crime, and (4) crimes associated with the prevalence of computers. (Taylor, & Fritsch, 2011) The first category, the computer as
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science to the legal process. It is an emerging research domain in India. There are many different types of forensic sciences baring their vital presence possibly in every field of human endeavor. Of these, let us now discuss about the computational, cyber and the DNA forensics. COMPUTATIONAL FORENSICS: The development of computational methods or mathematical and software techniques to solve forensic issues is called computational forensics. These methods analyze the evidence beyond human cognitive
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