Essays on Atallah

1. How have phishing attacks compromised major systems?

Phishing attacks aim to steal information from the user’s computer and this is usually done through email messages that mimic those from a legitimate company, but which contain fraudulent information and fraudulent links. Once the link is clicked then the user’s personal information gets stolen. It can also be that the installation of a particular application or the opening of an email may cause Trojans or key loggers to be installed in the computer. These Trojans then work in the background to steal the user’s information.

The stolen information is used to launder money, steal identities, and access ...

Regarding cybercrime law, the argument by Kristoffer is sufficient as the most important crime that has the potential to bring damage to information within an organization is that which deals with fraud. Computer fraud is taking shape and is being experienced in different organizations. The proliferation of the internet and the increase in computer access has heightened computer fraud. Computer fraud cybercrime law is therefore the most important law that has been put in place. Computer fraud act has been changed and amended several times to adapt to the changing face of computer fraud. There has been the need ...

The most important cybercrime law that is available today is that pertaining substantive cybercrime. These are the laws that do prohibit individuals in undertaking online identity theft. This is the section 18 U.S.C & 1028A (Casey, 2011). The law states that this is the laws that is concerned with fraud or related activities like documents that are used for identification, features that are used for identification, and information (Casey, 2011). This is an important cybercrime law because, if implemented well, will help fraudsters from using other people information and identification to defraud the internet users. Many of the cybercrime is ...