Illegal access and modification of data will be discussed in this research paper. David Noel Cecil gained illegal access into Platform Networks, an internet service provider and stole the username and password of Platform Networks managing director. In a period of ten days, David Noel Cecil got into the company’s system multiple occasions which summed up to forty-eight times (CDPP, 2011). David Noel Cecil, modified the file structure of the computer system in one of the forty-eight occasions, which resulted in the Platform Networks internal system going off line for some time. David Noel Cecil, also run several commands on the companies system which lead to a compromise on the companies system (CDPP, 2011). David Noel Cecil an unemployed truck driver was found by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) bragging online about his hacking activities in 2011. In a report given by the AFP David Noel Cecil is 25 years old from New South Wales. It was also started in the report that David Noel Cecil had no information technology qualifications. Thus he taught himself to compromise security …show more content…
It is reported that Platform Networks observed the first breach within a period of forty-eight hours. Platform Networks then duplicated and quarantined the affected computers so that the cyber-attacker will not detect that he was being monitored closely (Rehn & Australian Associated Press, 2011). Platform Networks states that the attack began in 2010 as a misbehaving domain name server. Platform Networks continued observing the quarantined computers which were being illegally accessed for a period of seven months. The quarantining approach allowed the AFP to be able to gather all the necessary data to enable them to apprehend the person who was behind the illegal access and illegal modification of Platform Networks data (Rehn & Australian Associated Press,
Compared to past, today we have sound security policies, established cyber laws, active monitoring systems, and extra layers of security in form of firewalls etc., to prevent access to uninvited guests for your network and most importantly increased user awareness. But still there exist vulnerabilities in and around the cyber space of which the hackers exploit for different purposes. The monetary losses we suffer today are much greater in magnitude as well as in mass. But, we definitely are in a better place compared to the time the events in this book took place.
Lately,there are many examples about how Computer Misuse Act preventing crime and facilitating a prosecution. Lewis Stephen Martin,21 years old, launched DOS attacks on the websites of Kent Police and universities of Oxford and Cambridge between 29 January and 2 February 2012. The police website and Cambridge University was offline more than an hour and Oxford University was offline aproximately 30 minuts. Giulty plea of unauthorised modification,unautorised access and obtained information without autorization. Sentenced to two years of imprisonment ( Computer Misuse Act 1990, s 1 : Unauthorised accesss, s 3 : Unauthorised modification; s 3A : Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in offence under section 1 or 3 ).
American Massive Business Hack: This is considered to be one of the largest hacking ever in which hackers stole 160 million credit and debit card numbers and targeted 800,000 (Beekman). This massive attack which happened over eight years ago hit lot of companies including NASDAQ. Some of these companies include 7-eleven, J C Penny, Hannaford, Hartland, Jet Blue, Dow Jones, Euronet, Visa Jordan, Ingenicard etc. Over seven years, five Russian and Ukrainian used sophisticated hacking techniques to compromise millions of credit card numbers and bank details. This isolated and unexpected operation spanned across the world and resulted in at least $300 million dollar in losses to organizations as well as individuals. The cyber attacks occurred between 2005 and 2012, and many of them were carried out in 2008 and...
The only counter measures taken so far that have been revealed is that the 300 Internet addresses were shut down in May 2010. The very recent public notification of this cyber-attack will continue to unfold and new implemented strategies to prevent a reoccurance remain to be seen. As a patriot of this great nation, what has been presented is of extreme, if not grave, concern. The challenges of cyberculture to our nation’s security have been revealed. To what extent our security has been breached is a matter of speculation but be informed that these breaches must be met with complete counter-active success - failure to do so is not an option. .
Technology has opened new encounters and opportunities for the criminal justice system. There are so many new practices of criminal activity, such as computer crimes. There are different types of computer crimes that many people become victims of every day. Computer crime is any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target ("Computer Crime: Chapter 2: What Are the Crimes?", n.d.). Crimes such as data diddling, pump and dump, social engineering and spoofing are computer crimes. Even though these crimes are difficult by privacy issues, the new technology has made investigations and prosecutions well organized and effective. Though views are different on the pros and cons of specific technological changes in the criminal justice system, there is an agreement the system has changed affectedly ("Effects of Technology in Criminal Justice | eHow", n.d.).
Finally, they cracked down one database and they began moving bilaterally across the network, targeting one after the other. At this point, a patch would not sufficiently solve the issue as an internal door was open. From May to July, the data stolen was so big that the hackers would need to break them into small batch to avoid alarms.
Along with worst hitting the NHS medical system, the Cyberware attack caused a serious havoc in more than 150 countries. What issues were raised by this significant event? I’d like to bring your focus on the several issues raised by this significant event The unprecedented Cyberware breach froze the computers across the NHS system with hackers posing a serious threat of deleting the files unless a ransom was paid.
Between April and May 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment’s online gaming service, PlayStation Network, and its streaming media service, Qriocity -plus Sony Online Entertainment, the company’s in-house game developer and publisher -were hacked by LulzSec, a splinter group of Anonymous, the hacker collective. The online services were shut down between April 20 and May 15 as Sony attempted to secure the breach, which put the sensitive personal data for over 100 million customers at risk. The PlayStation Network suffered multiple kinds of attacks. One was a classic data breach -the release of otherwise secure information. The second was a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, that left the network inaccessible to gamers.
July-Widespread deployment of DDoS attacks based on a tool known as "trinoo" via various RPC related vulnerabilities. Many of the initial deployments were done manually, with intruders carefully testing and selecting hosts.
The history of cybercrime goes back to 1971 and the first computer virus called the Creeper which was created by Bob H. Thomas, who was a BBN engineer (Dalakov, Meltzer, and Phillips). BBN which stands for Bolt, Beranek and Newman, is now Raytheon BBN Technologies (“About”, Dalakov). A computer virus is a program that is created to cause damage to a computer or perform other malicious acts (204). The Creeper virus was designed to infect the ARPANET network. The ARPANET, which stands for Advance Research Projects Agency was set up by the U.S. Government as an agency in 1969 to provide a network of computers that would connect various academic and research organizations; it was the predecessor of the Internet (“Internet”, Morley, and Parker).
This assignment is based on the analysis of the different types of the breaches which have been conducted over the last few years. The main context of the assignment is to evaluate and understand the causes of the occurrence of the breach of data, the impact of the breach of data and the level of step which have been taken for managing and controlling the breach of the data. It has been seen that over the last few years there are different cases have been founded regarding the breach of the data. One of the important things regarding the data breach is that there are certain larger companies for example Yahoo had suffered some sort of the data breach. This assignment particularly discussed the Hack at the UCLA Health data.
• Laying a trap to obtain password. 2. Unauthorised access to a computer system with intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a further offence, for example: • Creating a backdoor or Trojan or allowing a covert user administrator privileges. 3. Unauthorised modification of computer material such as: • The distribution of viruses, as well as the amendment of data to gain personal advantage such as bank account details • This act is one of the most important act when it comes to dealing with criminal offence in relation to a computer system.
Today’s attacks can come from any angle against any system, not just from the perimeter of your network and the Internet as you might have been taught in the past. Test every possible entry point, including partner, vendor, and customer networks, as well as home users, wireless LANs, and mobile devices. Any human being, computer system, or physical component that protects your computer systems — both inside and
These types of crimes have become a matter of importance for the consumers as well the business firms because it involves large eviction of the amount in terms of money. In these types of crimes, computer and Internet are the primary factor (Spinello, 2000). A high percentage of population is using computers in the Australia, United States as well as other developed nations. These people are much more connected with the world by the use of internet. They are using the computer for fun, business, e-commerce, e-marketing, etc.; thus, it has become an essential part of life and daily routine (Wall, 2008).
Computer crime or Cyber Crime is defined as any type of crime that involves or regards a computer or computer network. Cyber Crime mainly means that the computer may be used as a tool in the commission of the crime or the computer may be the main target of the criminal’s crime. The rapid growth of technology and gadgets as well as the further de...