07-07-2012, 03:09 PM
Cyber Crime – “Is the Internet the new “Wild Wild West"
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The New Wild Wild West
More cyber criminals than cyber cops
Criminals feel “safe” committing crimes from the privacy of their own homes
Brand new challenges facing law enforcement
Most not trained in the technologies
Internet crimes span multiple jurisdictions
Need to retrofit new crimes to existing laws
Computer Crime
Computer used to commit a crime
Child porn, threatening email, assuming someone’s identity, sexual harassment, defamation, spam, phishing
Computer as a target of a crime
Viruses, worms, industrial espionage, software piracy, hacking
Computer Forensics
What is it?
an autopsy of a computer or network to uncover digital evidence of a crime
Evidence must be preserved and hold up in a court of law
Growing field – Many becoming computer forensic savvy
FBI, State and Local Police, IRS, Homeland Security
Defense attorneys, judges and prosecutors
Independent security agencies
White hat or Ethical Hackers
Programs offered at major universities such as URI
Viruses and Worms
Different types of “ailments”
Viruses
software that piggybacks on other software and runs when you run something else
Macro in excel, word
Transmitted through sharing programs on bulletin boards
Passing around floppy disks
An .exe, .com file in your email
Worms
software that uses computer networks to find security holes to get in to your computer – usually in Microsoft OS!! But worm for MAC was recently written.