Chapter 2

Question 1

What is R.A 10175?

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Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012

Question 2

the collection of tools, policies, security concepts, security safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, training, best practices, assurance and technologies that can be used to protect the cyber environment and organization and user’s assets.”

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Cubersecurity

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involves protection of sensitive personal and business information through prevention, detection and response to different online attacks.

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Cubersecurity

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You should disable these features when they are not in use.

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Disabled Remote Connectivity

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an illegal act an individual commits to defrauding someone who is the actual credit card holder.

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Credit Card Frauds

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the concealment of the origins ofillegallyobtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.

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Money Laundering

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Pornographic Websites; online distribution

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Cyber pornography

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Millions of websites, all hosted on servers abroad, offer online gambling

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Online gambling

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Software Piracy; Copyright Infringement; Trademarks Violations; Theft of Computer Source Code

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Intellectual Property (IP) Crimes

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A spoofed email is one that appears to originate from one source but actually has been sent from another source.

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Email spoofing

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This occurs when defamation takes place with the help of computers and/or the internet.

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Cyber defamation

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This involves following a person’s movements across the internet by posting messages (sometimes threatening) on bulletin boards frequented by the victim, entering chat rooms frequented by the victim, constantly bombarding the victim with emails etc.

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Cyber Stalking

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Also known as “hacking”.

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Unauthorized access

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It involves gaining access illegally to a computer system or network and in some cases making unauthorized use of this access.

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Hacking

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the act by which other forms of cybercrime (e.g., fraud, terrorism) are committed.

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Hacking

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any information contained in electronic form such as that stored in computer hard disks, removal storage media

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Theft

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This refers to sending a large number of emails to the victim resulting in the victim’s email account or mail servers crashing.

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Email Bombing

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These attacks are often used in committing financial crime and are based on the idea that an alteration, so insignificant, would go completely unnoticed in a single case.

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Salami attacks

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It is a cybercrime in which the attacker floods a server with internet traffic to prevent users from accessing connected online services and sites.

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Distributed denial of service attack

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programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file then circulate themselves to other files and other computers on a network.

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Virus

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They usually affect the data on computer either by altering or deleting it.

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Virus

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They merely make functional copies of themselves and do this repeatedly till they eat up all the available space on computer’s memory.

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Worms

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These are event dependent programs where programs kicks into action only when a certain event occurs

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Logic Bomb

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An unauthorized program which functions from inside what seems to be an authorized program thereby concealing what is actually doing.

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Trojan attacks

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This occurs when someone forcefully takes control of a website

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Web-Jacking

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Hacking designed to cause terror. Like conventional terrorism, ‘e-terrorism’ is utilized hacking to cause violence against persons or property, or at least cause enough harm to generate fear.

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Cyber-Terrorism

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can be broadly defined as an intentional act of deception involving financial transactions for purpose of personal gain.

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Financial Fraud Crimes

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a crime and is also a civil law violation.

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Fraud

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It means trying to trick or scam someone else using the internet.

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Internet Fraud

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use of potentially illegal means to obtain money, assets or other property owned or held by financial institution.

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Bank Fraud

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form of credit card fraud in which stolen credit card is used to charge pre-paid cards.

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Carding

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also known as identity fraud, a crime in which imposter obtains key pieces of personally identifiable info, such as Social security or driver’s license number in order to impersonate someone else.

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Identity theft

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a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.

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Extortion

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It can be defined as an act of terrorism committed through the use of cyberspace or computer resources

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Cyber-Terrorism

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A personal, political or social gain by using computers and networks to threaten and compel a person, organization or even a government.

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Cyber-Extortion

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These hackers demand money in return for promising to stop the attacks and offer “protection”

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Cyber -Extortion

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any kind of unwanted, unsolicited digital communication that gets sent out in bulk.

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Spamming/spam

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a scam where thieves attempt to steal personal or financial account information by sending deceptive electronic messages that trick unsuspecting consumers into disclosing personal information.

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Phishing

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unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person.

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Stalking

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This type of stalker becomes upset when the friendship or romantic relationship has ended.

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Rejected stalker

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This type of stalker is not only self-centered and jealous but also over-dependent and persistent.

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Rejected stalker

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stalker feels humiliated that the relationship has ended and seeks revenge upon the victim.

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Resentful stalker

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are often irrationally paranoid and are known to verbally assault their victims.

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Resentful stalker

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stalker seeks power and sexual gratification

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Predatory stalker

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They will not make physical contact but will use surveillance to track the victim

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Predatory stalker

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stalker seeks an intimate and romantic relationship with the victim.

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Intimacy seeker

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stalker usually has inadequate social skills.

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Incompetent suitor

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They want a relationship with the victim but do not have the ability to realize he or she is not meant to be with the victim.

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Incompetent suitor

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This type of stalker feels that the victim loves them even though they may not have had any contact with the victim.

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EROTOMANIA AND MORBIDLY INFATUATED

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The stalker is usually paranoid, prefers suitors in a higher social class and repeatedly approach the victim.

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EROTOMANIA AND MORBIDLY INFATUATED

Question 51

It is the use of the internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization may include false accusations, defamation, slander and libel.

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Cyber Stalking