Cybercrimes tend to be committed in a different context than traditional crimes, which may lead to different risk factors for both offending and victimization. The relationship between traditional offending and victimization is the strongest for violent crimes, which as per definition requires physical interaction between victims and offenders, previous research suggests that victims and offenders eventually interact with one another in order for cybercrime to occur, even if it occurs asynchronously. This may account for the association identified between cybercrime offending and the increased risk of victimization, as well as common risk factors for both experiences, including low self-control, routine activities, and socio-demographic characteristics.

Committing crimes online allows someone to hide their identity and location, which in some cases is thousands of miles away. People who commit cybercrimes are often well organized and believable online. Many cyber-crimes are committed by offenders who may be thousands of miles away.

Research examining the association between cybercrime offending and victimization has largely focused on forms of cybercrime that do not require technical expertise or are dependent on technology, such as fraud or piracy. New and more technical computer-dependent crimes, like cyber-trespass, have received less attention from researchers. For instance, research on malware victimization found individuals with malicious software infections were more likely to engage in online deviance, mainly piracy or viewing pornography.

Considering the common risk factors associated with cybercrime victimization and offending, it is imperative to understand their underlying theoretical relationships. The primary risk factor identified across multiple studies of cybercrime is low self-control, though it has greater explanatory power for less-technical forms of cybercrime. Some forms of cybercrime are simple to complete, provide immediate gratification for the individual, and present multiple opportunities for offending, such as digital piracy.

With respect to offending, it has been argued that advanced types of hacking and other technical computer-dependent cybercrimes require more self-control. Offenders must learn the skills needed in order to commit the act, such as manipulation of computer hardware and software via malicious software.

Resources:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639625.2017.1411030

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809918301097

Firstly, computers are there to help us be safer in our environment. Our cars have security system to tell us if someone is trying to steal our cars. Our homes are the same way. Without computers this would not be possible. What is more, computers made the world safer also by how we made our world. People are now living longer with the help of computer in the hospital. What human cannot do in an operating room computer can. Computers can have a steadier hand than a person therefore making the procedure safer.

Secondly, computers have also impacted our educational system and the way we learn. Computers help people learn better. One can research more topics with ease and student will be introducing to word processing which will help them later in life. The internet becoming more and more available now, students can learn much faster and prepare their material for studies more quickly with the help of computers.

The one large change is in the way we travel. With multiple different travel applications to buy plane tickets, reserve hotel rooms and to locate different places while traveling. Google maps are great to use when looking for a particular location and then seeing it on a map will familiarize you with the different surroundings.

Banking has completely changed thanks to computers. Being able to make deposits and pay bills online is great. Having a banking application allows you to take photos of the check and deposit into your account. You still have to go to the atm if you want to deposit cash.

All things considered, there is no doubt in my mind that computers have made our lives and world better. There are a lot of advantages you can get from computer. But it is important to bear in mind that working too long with computer is bad for health. Your health is a heavy consideration when you sit in from of a computer too long. Sitting too long can cause blood clots and reading the computer screen can cause eye issues. These issues can be major issues with people who sit in a chair all day for a living.

People have to understand that computer cannot fully replace real world, but all in all computers are very usable for us to make the world a better and safer place.

Security Engineers are responsible for protecting the network and monitoring to protect against data breaches. They are trained to look for threats and be prepared for any type of intrusion from any type of event. Keeping track of events and preparing for future events and testing the networking against attacks. They also can teach employees to look for certain criteria in order to help keep issues down and not opening doors for the attacks to happen.

Resources

http://weresu.me/en/articles/10342-computers-have-made-the-world-a-better-and-safer-place

Has Technology Made the World Safer or Less Safe?

Modern IT infrastructures are very complex and difficult to learn and protect such a wide array of virtual ground. Cyber Attacks and data breaches can result in millions of dollars for companies. Businesses should invest in cybersecurity. It would allow them to build a program and be prepared for an attack when it does happen and it will happen in this day and age. Companies that build a strong cybersecurity program can provide reassurance to their customers that they have the best program in place to protect their business and personal information.

A healthy Cyber Security programs should average about 14 percent of the overall IT Department annual budget. A good program will protect your networks and Data from being hacked. It can improve information security management. It can improve the stakeholder’s confidence that the data will be secured.

Many companies like to protect their all their data in the same way. Does not matter if it is credit card information or banking information, have the same set of standards for both groups of data. When building a program, you must decide how will have the proper access to the data that is stored. Some companies worst type of hacker are an internal hacker. Someone that is an employee that can leave portals open and allow external hackers into a back door for the system.

Cybersecurity risk are the norm into todays world. Certain attacks are more common that others but they all effect the daily operations of a company and can cause down time and hundreds of thousand of dollars to a firm.

They are multiple ways you can tell if you computer is protected. First thing I would do is test my settings. You can run the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and it will check your passwords to see if they are weak and allow you to make a stronger password. Update your plugins, regular schedule your updates to make sure the plugins are all up to date. Test your firewall by checking your ports and making sure that no wrong ports are open. Delete all the files you do not use or place them on a memory stick or an external hard drive. One surprising thing to check is your Facebook account as it saves multiple bits of information about you.

Resources:

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/hit-or-myth-understanding-the-true-costs-and-impact-of-cybersecurity-programs

How Much Should Your Company Invest in Cybersecurity?

Within today’s world, cyber technology has allowed multiple occasions for people in the work place to become deviant. Any one, any company can have issues arise with situations of employees stealing technology and break security rules within an organization.

Two common attacks are data breaches and hacks from within a company. Private information held by insurance companies and healthcare companies were the criminals can reach personal information able a client or patient are prime locations with a great deal of personal details available to be hacked. Social security numbers are the number one data information a hacker can steal as they can open multiple accounts and use those accounts to fraud companies of millions of dollars without opportunities for recover most of the time.

Within a company you can have different classifications of deviance.

Production Deviance

Property Deviance

Political Deviance

Personal Aggression

Each level has multiple work place behaviors.

Also included work place deviances are cyber slacking that can provide open holes for attacks set up from an employee for hackers from outside the company to break thru and steal information.

It can be from, online gambling, stock trading, chats and porno websites. When visiting these websites, it can allow hackers to find the different ports that could be open to access your network and once they are inside the hackers can wreck your system and steal data.

Small businesses can be vulnerable to different kinds of email attacks. These emails look very real, coming from banks and other companies that the current companies deal with on a continuous basis. Hackers seem to want to concentrate on small businesses as they know the security programs made not be as strong because of cost and man hours needed to run the cyber security program.

It is clear the small businesses need to be better informed on the different cyber security solutions that would be available to them.

Resources:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/INSIDER-THREATS-AND-EMPLOYEE-DEVIANCE%3A-DEVELOPING-Green/933ad4e20d1145a7866394229ae3d3dab75989b8/figure/0

https://www.sbir.gov/sites/all/themes/sbir/dawnbreaker/img/documents/Course10-Tutorial1.pdf

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Describe four ethical issues that arise when storing electronic information about individuals.

Privacy and Confidentiality- is the right of a person to have their records kept private and the duty of the person that is handling that information to keep it private.

Security Breach- when data has been accessed via a computer, network or devices that without the approval of the information owner.

System Implementation- when the designer of the system is to determine how the system should be built and how it will protect that data that will be entered into the actual system once completed.

Data inaccuracies- when the data either has been entered correctly and changed at a later date or the information was entered incorrectly and never changed. Or the information was falsely given in the first place.

Compare cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and another country.

The are many Cyber Security threats for the United States. I am going to list the top 6 and explain them briefly.

Social Hacking- is when data is breached by your own employees. This is mostly traced back to employees being careless opening emails, malicious links, and phishing attacks.

Ransomware- attacks that focus on locking up the network or data. Usually when this happens you will get a message demanding payment to release the attack to regain use of your network of data.

Use Active Cyber Security Monitoring- It asset and security audits will allow you to protect the full network. Hackers just need one open door to steal your data.

Unpatched Vulnerabilities- many times the hacker knows of certain holds in a software, known as security bugs and can penetrate the network and steal whatever they want. You must keep updating your software with software patches from the vendor.

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks- these types of attack will kill the targets network and the network traffic will come to a halt. This can also prevent you from accessing your data via the network and slow do productivity of the work place.

Resources: https://www.getgds.com/resources/blog/cybersecurity/what-are-the-biggest-cyber-security-threats-in-2019.

So, here’s the list of those countries with lowest malware infection rates in computers

Sweden-19.88%
Finland- 20.65%
Norway-21.63%
Japan-22.24%
Belgium-22.78%
United Kingdom-23.38%
Switzerland-23.94%
Germany-24.12%
Denmark-24.34%
Netherlands-24.86%

Now the list of those with highest malware infection rates in computers

China-49%
Taiwan-47.34%
Turkey-40.99%
Russia-38.95%
Gautamela-37.56%
Mexico-36.89%
Peru-36.23%
Ecuador-36.22%
Brazil-34.68%
Poland-33.01%

Top 10 countries where attacks originated.

Russia

China

Ukraine

Romania

Brazil

Nigeria

Vietnam

Indonesia

South Korea

USA.

Resources:

List of Countries which are most vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

https://www.google.com/search?q=top+10+countries+where+cyber+attacks+originate+2019

The are many Cyber Security threats for the United States. I am going to list the top 6 and explain them briefly.

Social Hacking- is when data is breached by your own employees. This is mostly traced back to employees being careless opening emails, malicious links, and phishing attacks.

Ransomware- attacks that focus on locking up the network or data. Usually when this happens you will get a message demanding payment to release the attack to regain use of your network of data.

Use Active Cyber Security Monitoring- It asset and security audits will allow you to protect the full network. Hackers just need one open door to steal your data.

Unpatched Vulnerabilities- many times the hacker knows of certain holds in a software, known as security bugs and can penetrate the network and steal whatever they want. You must keep updating your software with software patches from the vendor.

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks- these types of attack will kill the targets network and the network traffic will come to a halt. This can also prevent you from accessing your data via the network and slow do productivity of the work place.

So, here’s the list of those countries with lowest malware infection rates in computers

Sweden-19.88%
Finland- 20.65%
Norway-21.63%
Japan-22.24%
Belgium-22.78%
United Kingdom-23.38%
Switzerland-23.94%
Germany-24.12%
Denmark-24.34%
Netherlands-24.86%

Now the list of those with highest malware infection rates in computers China-49%
Taiwan-47.34%
Turkey-40.99%
Russia-38.95%
Gautamela-37.56%
Mexico-36.89%
Peru-36.23%

Resources: https://www.getgds.com/resources/blog/cybersecurity/what-are-the-biggest-cyber-security-threats-in-2019.

List of Countries which are most vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

Top 10 countries where attacks originated.

Russia

China

Ukraine

Romania

Brazil

Nigeria

Vietnam

Indonesia

USA.

South Korea

https://www.google.com/search?q=top+10+countries+where+cyber+attacks+originate+2019

Describe four ethical issues that arise when storing electronic information about individuals.

Privacy and Confidentiality- is the right of a person to have their records kept private and the duty of the person that is handling that information to keep it private.

Security Breach- when data has been accessed via a computer, network or devices that without the approval of the information owner.

System Implementation- when the designer of the system is to determine how the system should be built and how it will protect that data that will be entered into the actual system once completed.

Data inaccuracies- when the data either has been entered correctly and changed at a later date or the information was entered incorrectly and never changed. Or the information was falsely given in the first place.

My major in Cybersecurity is very important in the relationship of cybersecurity technology. It refers to the actual body of the different technologies designed to protect devices, networks, programs and data from attacks. It can also be called Information Technology security.

Cyber security plays a very important role for national security of our governments, militaries, financial and medical originations thru out the world. As volumes of attacks grow around the world companies and businesses are finding the need to take the next steps in protecting their data and their customers from being stolen.

In a skill set that will allow you to protect several types of security in Applications, Network and Cloud situations.

Cyber Operations builds skills in different types of classes that allow you to gain knowledge in systems, theory, practice and hands on labs. In graduating with the degree in Cyber Operations (B.S) will prepare you for multiple types of jobs especially used in the military and law enforcement.

Cybercrime allows the major to give you the strength by building your major thru several classes to give you the background to move into Cyber security with classes from the criminal justice, information technology and computer science.

Enterprise Security major allows a student to build skills within a technical background. During this time, you will gain skills in programming, networking and enterprise architecture. This will allow you to search for jobs in different organizations with incident response teams. Cloud applications and on-site infrastructures fall into this category as well.

Cybersecurity majors build skills thru heavy technical background and classes design to prepare you for defending computers, mobile devices, servers, networks and data from malicious attacks. Learning the skills to recognize an attack in different forms and understanding how to recover lost data and designing a structure to protect that same data for secondary attacks.

The goals of these programs are to address cyber security in different ways to real world situations. With the students and teachers working together will allow multiple backgrounds to come together and learn from each other.

I ran several Google searches on myself and found some of the information was true as far as some addresses,phone numbers and relatives. On the flip side there was alot of false information as well. Most of the sites want you to sign up to find out the nitty griddy about yourself or any one else you choose to search for.