Cyber technology opens doors for cyber criminals to exploit victims. As cyber technology advances, the ways in which an offender can commit crimes increases. One example public Wi-Fi. Free public Wi-Fi is becoming the standard for most places. Wal-Mart, Target, Starbucks, Malls, Outlets, McDonalds, hotels, and hundreds of other places all have unsecure Wi-Fi hot spots. These are easily exploitable by even low knowledge criminals. When you sit down in a Starbucks and connect your phone or laptop to that Wi-Fi with no protection you open yourself up to many attacks. Arp Spoofing, DNS Poisoning, Man-In-The-Middle and Honey Pot attacks are all common when connected to public Wi-Fi. It is also not uncommon for Rouge Hotspots to be found in public areas. Rouge Hotspots make it easy for attackers to gain your information. Using VPNs, avoiding sites that require your password, making sure security patches are being completed and avoiding public Wi-Fi altogether can help prevent yourself from becoming a victim. 

SCADA systems, in use in a lot of important electrical grid and water treatment systems, also leave room for potentially devastating attacks. SCADA systems are usually single port operations which means it is easier for attackers to track and shut down. This could be easily protected with a firewall, but SCADA systems tend to use older, outdated or legacy equipment leaving them even more vulnerabilities and it becomes harder to find commercial firewalls that cover this outdated software. The legacy software is also a massive vulnerability in SCADA systems. A lot of the software created to run these systems were built before there was a large push for cybersecurity. There were also fewer security threats when this software was created. With some systems running software back to Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP, neither of which are supported by windows for security updates anymore, this creates massive security flaws.