Potential Misuse Of A Computer

A1. The Nature of the incident was that an employee was able to hack into the computer system and gain access to the financial payroll system, human resources and even email system. This employee used several methods in order to gain access into the system: IP spoofing, Data modification, Man in the middle attack and compromised-key attack. As a result the employee was able to tamper with payroll system. An auditor discovered the discrepancies and tried to make upper management aware of the situation through email, but the email was intercepted by the hacker. The hacker impersonated an employee and persuaded the auditor into granting him more access into the system which resulted in additional sabotage into the payroll system. Hacker

The following memo describes the events that have taken place in Saint Leo Police Department as it relates to the Sheriff’s findings in Officer Narcissus office computer. It will contain a summary of the Sheriff’s and Officer Narcissus’ actions, as well as their reactions to the other’s stance. As the special assistant to the Sheriff, the author of this compilation will provide as much detail about the legal ramifications the Sheriff may face as it relates to this situation and conclude by providing some recommendations to resolve the situation at hand. The author will back up the recommendations with laws

Issue 4: Information Security officials failed to effectively trigger appropriate notifications and begin an investigation of the stolen data. The information security official’s incident report contained omissions and significant errors. This resulted in missed opportunity to re-create the contents of the laptop and external drive and to recognize the severity of the potential loss of data. The cybersecurity operations officials failed to ensure a timely investigation and notifications were made regarding the severity of the lost data (Opfer, 2006).

As is the case with any type of evidence seizure, what is fair game and what is off limits needs to be identified and set, preferably in writing before any work is done. (Nelson, Phillips, & Steuart, 2015). This ensures that the forensics team will be protected in the worst case scenario where the company could have an issue with what was taken, very similar to the protection ethical hackers require when performing a penetration test (##). Once this list is created, the team will interview the system administrators to provide any information allowed about the systems such as the equipment, system baselines, passwords that are allowed to be shared, and any special information that would need to be known before analyzing the system such as what information is logged and where would it be stored (Rowlingson, 2004). The entire purpose of this information gathering is to paint a clearer picture of the situation so a more detailed plan could be devised prior to any systems being touched.

Det. Patel was interviewed as a subject officer. He stated that on Tuesday June 9, 2015 he worked a 0800 X 1600 tour, and was assigned as an investigator. He stated that he could not recall being notified in regards to Shawn Thomas's arrest on June 8, 2015 by TD-30, or that Mr. Thomas had an active I-card out of the 110 Squad with probable cause to arrest for Grand Larceny. He did confirm that it was his tax number use d for the inquiry and that no one else had access to his computer password. Based on this information, he acknowledged that he did conducted the inquiry. He could not recall conducting an ESP Inquiry on Tuesday June 9, 2015, at 0913 hours on the name Shawn Thomas, and did not know why he would have conducted the inquiry. He could

By performing the tasks required in this lab, many other attributes, references, and system information was gleaned that will benefit forensic efforts in the future. For this lab, the time zone of the computer has been isolated to China Standard Time, which in itself is suspicious. BHOs and add-ins were also located using registry values. Among this, there was only a reference to Bing Bar, which was identified in an earlier lab as a download performed on Jane’s computer. Moreover, this lab uncovered startup applications (UPnP.exe and SCVHhost.exe) that were identified as potentially suspicious in previous labs. Lastly, this lab allowed the student to locate USB storage devices that were connected to Jane’s system as well as the times associated with the connection and removal of the device in the system’s

1. What permissions/authorities should you have before you search Mr. Yourprop’s former Company work area, and how would you document that authority?

Due to the fact he was no longer employed under this department, Defendant was no longer privy to access sensitive SSD data, including passwords. Defendant continued to work for Intel as a private contractor and used a gate program to access an Intel computer from remote locations for e-mail purposes. Schwartz was warned to cease his use of gate programs twice; he argued after the first warning his alterations to the program made it secure but an administrator reminded him his usage of the program violated company policy. Shortly after, Defendant downloaded the password-cracking program “Crack” and ran it on several Intel computers before finding the log-in information for authorized user Ron B. Defendant used this information to log into the authorized user’s computer. Defendant copied the SSD password file from that computer onto another one, where he ran the Crack program to obtain the passwords of 35 more SSD users. Defendant believed if he could expose the flaws in the company’s security then he could regain his lost reputation. Upon returning from teaching classes in California, Defendant ran Crack on the SSD file once more on a superior personal computer. His activity was detected by another Intel administrator who—with other administrators—contacted the

Review the information in the text sheet entitled “Overview of Evidence and Digital Forensic Analysis Techniques,” which describes different types of digital forensic analysis techniques, such as disk forensics and e-mail forensics.

On Friday, September 22, 2017, at 9:50 AM the investigator received a phone call from's Ms. Judy Reeves who was very cordial and cooperative in arranging for the construction manager, Mr. Anthony Tomkins who oversees the employees who are listed as potential witnesses in this case to be interviewed sometime next week. Ms. Reeves who is based out of their corporate office in Atlanta, Georgia will have Mr. Tompkins, AKA Tony contact us to arrange for an employer level AOE/COE investigation to be conducted at the company's warehouse at 14767 Carmenita Road, Norwalk, CA 90650. She said the company's warehouse is less than 45 minutes away from where the incident took place where the loss had allegedly occurred at 867 W. 10th St., San Pedro, CA

WILLISON, R., & SIPONEN, M. (2009). Overcoming the insider: reducing employee computer crime through Situational Crime Prevention. Communications Of The ACM, 52(9),

When was the last time she accessed her computer? What is her background in computers, what is her skill level? I need some background on the former employee, her computer habits and activities prior to the files being found on her computer. I must collect digital evidence while keeping the data unaltered, first thing. This data will be used later in the prosecution of the case. This can be done through calculating and recording an evidence file. Next is imaging of the computer media with a write-blocking tool. I must keep the chain of custody. The computer's RAM is examined for evidence. During the examination step, verify and catalog the presence and integrity of the original evidence and any copies. An analysis is made with specialized equipment to find out exactly what's stored on the digital media. This includes a manual review of all materials found on the media, a review of the Windows registry, techniques to crack passwords and retrieve protected data, keyword searches and extraction of email and pictures for further review.

In this essay I will be talking about the key guidelines when it comes to investigating computer related crimes, such as what kind of the sections and sub-sections the offence falls under when regarding the ‘law’. I will also analyse the principle that will apply when dealing with the collection data using the digital forensic unit to analyse the data, more so how this is used to make accurate judgment on why the data was in this location and what its purpose or intended use was. Furthermore I will address what kind the authority the ACPO are granted, and further dissect the responsibilities the chief commissioner has. Lastly I will be addressing one the biggest computer related crimes which Cyber Crime and how ACPO created a method for dealing with such crimes, such as dividing the crime into two different categories of Cyber Crime, and how they differ from one another.

Since the widespread use of computers, computer crime has caused an increase in computer investigations during the twenty first century. Some reasons for investigation include: identity theft, such as stolen social security and credit card numbers, to find evidence of a cheating spouse, to investigate hackers on a computer system, to find evidence of child pornography, and much more.

Facts: Employee was stealing time and money from the company by submitting bogus technically difficulty offline requests to cover up that he was late work due to taking his son to school.