ARTICLE REVIEW 1

http://sites.wp.odu.edu/emmanuel-walker/wp-content/uploads/sites/37247/2024/09/Analysis-1-cyber.pdf

Week 5 Journal entry

Review the articles linked with each individual motive in slide/page #3.  Rank the motives from 1 to 8 as the motives that you think make the most sense (being 1) to the least sense (being 8).  Explain why you rank each motive the way you rank it.

1. Money: I placed this first since financial gain is the most common for cybercrime. Hackers regularly attack banks or cryptocurrency platforms to make their money and it could be considered the easier
2. Recognition: Many cybercriminals respect within hacker communities from being able to do current things or able to obtain the most “success”
3. Political: they have the potential to damage institutions or spread ideas, show how some cybercrime is motivated by social or political reasons.
4. Revenge: Personal grudges or retaliation can influence cybercrime, blackmailing someone with pornography or other embarrassing images/videos.
5. Curiosity: Inexperienced hackers may test systems simply to see if they can hack. Curiosity is widespread, but it is less motivated.
6. Entertainment: Some hackers hack because they think it is fun and they enjoying committing crimes
7. Boredom: Boredom happens, but it’s impulsive and random making it a lesser long-term motivation.
8. Multiple reasons: Having multiple reasons weakens the primary motivator

JOURNALS

Describe the top three careers of social science graduates that you would be interested in considering. What attracts you to those jobs? 

The top 3 careers in social science for graduates are market research, social and human services, and politics/government. Market research refers to collecting information about customers and various marketing trends that can help a company develop. Social and human services is a broad field, but they help different people with their challenges they might face and help them walk in the right foot steps. Lastly, politics/government. This can range from decision-making/law, holding power, etc. I would lean towards politics/government because my major is criminal justice, and I have always been interested in law, and it is such a broad field where some of the jobs do the same thing as social and human services. Politics/government attracts me more because it is different, and it is something new every time.  Since my generation will be leading our nation in the future, we are the change to all the craziness that is going on right now. I hope after graduation I could end up with a governmental job or somewhere close to this field.

Are there certain areas that you would want to focus your career on? Explain which areas are most appealing to you and which are least appealing.

There were so many options to choose from, but I think investigation and analysis resonate more with my career choice. My major is criminal justice, so these roles include looking over digital evidence, detecting cybercrime activity, and using data to solve cases that benefit both law enforcement and courtroom proceedings. Now technology is more prevalent in today’s society, so it would make solving crimes a lot easier. I also think Protect and Defend (PD) is important because some documents related to governmental records/databases should be protected for the public’s safety. On the other hand, the less appealing focuses were Operate & maintain and Securely provision because they are focused more on IT/system administration rather than the investigative aspect of criminal justice