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| the intent to destroy or harm a system or some of its components |
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| typically business people who commit fraud |
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| missappropriation of assets or employee fraud |
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| fraudulent financial reporting |
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| intentional or reckless conduct that results in materially misleading financial statements |
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Opportunity, Rationalization, Pressure
opportunity - commit, convert, conceal |
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| a person's incentive or motivation for committing fraud |
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| any illegal act for which knowledge of computer technology is essential for its perpetration, investigation, or prosecution |
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| clicking on ads numerous times to inflate advertising bills |
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| sending email bombs from randomly generated false addresses, the recipient's internet service provider email server is overloaded and shuts down |
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| wireless network with the same name as a local wireless access point |
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| accessing and using computer systems without permission, usually by means of a personal computer and telecommunications network |
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| gaining control of someone else's computer to carry out illicit activities without the owner's knowledge |
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| assuming someone's identity, usually for economic gain, by illegally obtaining confidential information |
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| using spyware to record a user's keystrokes |
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| software that can be used to do harm |
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| using a computer to find confidential information as it travels the internet and other networks |
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| penetrating system defenses, stealing passwords and decrypting them so they can be used to access system programs, files, and data |
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| redirecting traffic to a spoofed web site to gain access to personal and confidential information |
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| sending emails requesting recipients to visit a web page to verify or fill in missing data. |
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1. using someone's wi-fi network for mischief, hacking, etc,
2. tapping into a telecommunications line , latching onto an authorized user and accompanying them into the system
3. bypassing physical security by entering when an authorized person enters |
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| pretending to be a legitimate business, collecting money and info and never delivering a product |
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| scavenging/dumpster diving |
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| looking for personal information in the trash or on old hard drives |
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| listening to someone as they give out confidential information to another |
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| double-swiping credit cards or swiping a card into a card reader to record the data for later use |
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| emailing an unsolicited message to many people at the same time |
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| using software to monitor computing habits and send the data to someone else without the computer user's permission |
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| entering a system using a back door that bypasses normal system controls |
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| unauthorized code or virus hiding inside and authorized program |
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| a segment of code that attaches itself to software, replicates and spreads to other systems or files |
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| voice phishing where email recipients are asked to call a phone number where they then divulge personal information |
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| dialing thousands of phone lines searching for idle modems that can be used to enter a system |
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| looking for unprotected wireless networks using a car or rocket |
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| program hidden in a host program, copies and actively transmits itself to other systems |
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| an attack between the time a new software vulnerability is discovered and a software patch that fixes the problem is released |
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