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The brochure will help a person to identify the different types of threats to an IT system. The brochure will provide a detailed and informative guide on the following threats
• Potential threats
• malicious damage
• counterfeit goods
• Threats to e-commerce. Who We Are
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The impact of potential threats
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Organizations can be affected by this as data can be stolen through phishing e-mails or spyware and fraudsters can impersonate an organization. This can cause major problems for customers as there is a risk of theft when purchasing items through e-commerce websites. It can create legal issues as the organization can be accused of stealing without being aware identity theft has been committed.
Piggybacking
Piggybacking is when a person uses an internet connection that belongs to someone else. The internet access often does not belong to the person piggybacking. Piggybacking is a form of malicious damage that can be legal in some areas. Piggybacking often does no harm to a person or an organization. Some people often piggyback if they cannot afford an internet connection or do not have an internet connection where they are situated. Often Piggybacking can happen by accident as wireless devices can connect to Wi-Fi routers very easily.
Piggybacking can less likely be used to commit illegal activities such as identity theft or downloading illegal content from the internet. This can be a potential and malicious threat to organizations as they can be punished for allowing the actions to take place on their internet
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Often people can purchase copied versions of DVDs and music through peer-to-peer sales for very low prices. This means that copied versions of music and films can be bought publicly through illegal sellers. Copied DVDs and Music can also be downloaded from the internet for free through piracy websites Counterfeit goods can lead to loss of business or income through customers. This because the products can be found at affordable prices or can be free through piracy websites.
Counterfeit goods: Software and Games
Software and games can also be counterfeit goods. Games can be illegally copied and sold or distributed through the internet, car boot sales, peer-to-peer networks and in person sales.
Copyright Act 1988
The copyright Act 1988 is a law that prevents items to be copied and sold. This law allows manufacturers to continue creating their products with the reduced worry of sales being lost through counterfeit goods. Any counterfeit goods being sold will resort to punishment through either a fine or imprisonment and ceasing of goods.
Method of distribution: in person
Throughout time, people have resorted to stealing in order to obtain items instead of buying them. It became a problem so consequences were made. Even dating back to the Ten Commandments there were laws against stealing. Recently, theft has become a problem over the internet. Musicians and music companies have lost millions in revenue. Websites such as Napster, The Pirate Bay, and Pandora have made it extremely easy for people, specifically teens, to illegally download and or listen to music for free. Pirating music has become a problem especially because “91 percent of all new music was downloaded illegally over the Internet instead of purchased,” says Logan Lynn from Huffington Post (Lynn). Many, such as the RIAA claim that music piracy is “an ongoing and evolving challenge,” (Who) while others suggest that it is “keeping the music industry alive,” (Issacson).
As the use of the internet leaves a footprint on every location that you travel while using it, IP addresses can also be obtained through a cloning process called ‘spoofing’. When that happens, a person obtains the IP address of a person who is using the internet at a particular time. So when criminal activities are observed and there is an attempt at prosecution, the law enforcement agency may find that its culprit, thought to be in Asia, is actually sitting in a house right beside it. (Walker, Brock, & Stuart,
This is another example of a domino effect.
National security in the United States is extremely important and requires extensive risk management measures including strategic, exercise, operational and capability-based planning, research, development, and making resource decisions in order to address real-world events, maintain safety, security and resilience (Department of Homeland Security [DHS], 2011). The national security and threat assessment process consists of identifying the risk and establishing an objective, analyzing the relative risks and environment, exploring alternatives and devising a plan of action for risk management, decision making and continued monitoring and surveillance (DHS, 2011). Identifying risks entails establishing a context to define the risk, considering related risks and varying scenarios, including the unlikely ones, which then leads to the analysis phase; gathering data and utilizing various methodologies and analysis data software systems to survey incidence rates, relative risks, prevalence rates, likelihood and probable outcomes (DHS, 2011). These two key phases lay the foundation to explore alternatives and devise action plans. Threats, vulnerabilities and consequences (TCV) are also a key component of many national security risk management assessments because it directly relates to safety and operation capabilities, but the text stress that it should not be included in the framework of every assessment because it is not always applicable (DHS, 2011).
In these cases, inventive improvement fundamentally makes new bad behavior targets. Programming theft/copying, copyright encroachment of PC programs, counterfeit equipment, black market PC rigging and activities, and robbery of mechanical apparatus fall into this class of PC bad behavior. One offense in this class occurs with relative repeat - the encroachment of copyright constraints of business programming. At in the first place, this offense may not seem like a certified bad behavior; yet, the potential mishap to associations can be exceptionally staggering.
While many people don’t realize it, there is always a risk when you use the internet. You must be able to know how to defend yourself against these attacks, or you risk losing it all. References Denholm, Martin. The. The Number One Threat to America's National Security."
Saleh, Z. (2013). The impact of identity theft on perceived. Journal of Internet Banking & Commerce, 18(2), 1-11. Retrieved from http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/jibc/
Piracy is a form of theft. Specifically, it refers to the unauthorized copying or use of intellectual property. Intellectual property is knowledge or expression that is owned by someone. There are three major types of intellectual property: 1) creative works, including music, written material, movies, and software, which are protected by copyright law; 2) inventions, which are protected by patent law; and 3) brand-name products, which are protected by trademarks. Many of the issues surrounding piracy have to do with the difference between intellectual property and physical property. A CD, for example, is a piece of physical property, but the songs on the CD are intellectual property. A customer in a record store can purchase a CD, but someone else still owns, or more precisely, has the copyright to the songs on the CD.
Shultz II, C.J and Saporito, B. (1996), ‘Protecting Intellectual Property: Strategies and Recommendations to Deter Counterfeiting and Brand Piracy in Global Markets’, The Columbia Journal of World Business, 31(1): pp. 18-28.
That a an individual will take advantage of the efficiency of the electronic system to facilitate funding of illegal activities, particularly terrorism
There are a lot of people who download music and movies without paying. The main reason that this is such a big issue is because piracy substitutes for a legitimate transaction; for example, someone who would have originally bought a DVD of the movie Young Guns but instead downloads it for free on The Pirate Bay. In this case, the person pirating the movie or song would never have bought it. This happens frequently if the “pirate” lives in a relatively poor country, like China, and is simply unable to afford to pay for the films and music he or she downloa...
In today’s technological age and consumer-driven economy, there is no doubt that media piracy and file sharing are in demand and makes a big business. Not only the so called “bootlegged” materials cost less, but most of it also managed to completely imitate the quality of the original materials. It is much easier to people to download movies or music online or buy bootlegged DVDs for 5 dollars than to watch the movie in theaters or pay for the whole CD when there is only one song that the person likes. People know about the possible consequences of these actions, but they do not have a choice especially in these times of economy recession, plus everyone nowadays is doing it, so it would not be considered such a big deal at all if they illegally download or purchase copyright materials. On the other hand if everyone is doing it, why there are still some people getting caught? Not that they should not be punished, but being put into jail and paying a fine that is ridiculously impossible to pay are just practically harsh. Maybe if those people are business tycoons of counterfeit materials, but the fact that most of those people getting caught are just ordinary people trying to be practical and doing what the rest of the world is doing which is doing these “illegal” downloading or purchasing bootlegged movies and music. The government and the entertainment industries are using ordinary people as scapegoats and have been doing draconian methods in moms, children and maybe even old people by suing them for downloading or sharing pirated materials for free, because of the fact that they are having a hard time pursuing the big time “master minds,” who are making a profit out of someone else’s work.
Taylor, R.W., Caeti, T.J., Loper, D.K., Fritsch, E.J. & Liederbach, J., 2006, Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism, 1st Edition, New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
Moreover, hackers came up with new ways to remove the digital copyrights so the same as before one downloads music and distributes them around. The industry gets its revenue from selling this content, whether it’s online or in stores, this funds new projects and allows for better products in the future. The public should be aware of this, downloading the content for free, and not buying it will decrease revenue for the companies, stopping them from undertaking future projects. “Production companies should lower the price on their products, I can’t buy music for at least 20$ per album and DVDs for 30$, I only make 200$ per month,” said George Issa, a music fan who spends most of his nights downloading music from the internet, “when there is an album or movie that I really like, I try to buy it legally, I don’t think I am doing anything wrong, they are wrong making money off our backs,” he added.
When you download any illegal media you are getting something for free that everyone else is required to pay a fee for. DVDs and CDs that cost others anywhere from 15 dollars to 60 dollars or more are being distributed for free as long as you have a download client. If you have programs such as Bittorent or Kazaa, you only have to find someone that already has the media on their computer, in which they either paid for the copies or they too downloaded the media illegally from someone else. On most of the “real” media (the cases), it states that you are not to distribute or copy the material because it is an illegal act, and you will be punished if caught.