RU ITEC411- Crime and Security

3. - receives hundreds of thousands of complaints of identity theft each year. Losses from identity theft amount to billions of dollars per year in the U.S., with several million victims.
7. - act as third party allowing a customer to make a purchase without revealing their credit card information to a stranger
10. - false Web sites that fish for personal and financial information by planting false URLs in Domain Name Servers
11. - a phone scam that attempts to defraud people by asking them to call a bogus telephone number to confirm their account information
12. - Companies began using hackers to analyze and improve security
14. - A computer worm designed to find and infect a particular piece of industrial hardware, used in an attack against Iranian nuclear plants
15. - Use of hacking to promote a political cause
17. - Use their skills to demonstrate system vulnerabilities and improve security
18. - Attacks used to shut down Websites
19. - Phishing attacks committed using text messages (SMS)
20. - Which part of government is considered and treats some cyber attacks as acts of war, and the U.S. might respond with military force.

1. - read hacker newsletters and participate in chat rooms undercover. They can often track a handle by looking through newsgroups or other archives
2. - Monitor and filter out communication from untrusted sites or that fit a profile of suspicious activity
4. - variety of factors contribute to security weaknesses
5. - various crimes in which criminals use the identity of an unknowing, innocent person
6. - Intentional, unauthorized access to computer system
8. - An especially clever piece of code
9. - trace viruses and hacking attacks by using ISP records and router logs
13. - An attack that sends an email or displays a Web announcement that falsely claims to be from a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to trick the user into surrendering private information
16. - has made it easier to steal and use card numbers without having the physical card