University Xyz, Phishing, And Legal Aspects

In December of 2013, a man was arrested for taking part in a phishing scheme. He was sending out fake emails to students that attended colleges around the U.K. The emails sent them to a site where they were supposedly supposed to update their student loans. What they didn’t know, is that excessive quantities of money were being taken from

While identity theft was present in society previous to the appearance of the internet, this medium has provided thieves with an intriguing method to steal identities from people without even having to leave their house. "Today, more and more people engage in online financial activities such as shopping, banking, investing, and bill paying." (Understanding Identity Theft) While this reflects positively on people's lives by saving them significant time, it also exposes them to a world of

The phishing email itself is also violating a law. This would fall under Title 18 Crimes and Criminal procedure, part 1, chapter 4, § 1028: "Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, authentication features, and information”. While there has been attempts in the past to introduce and pass laws that specifically apply to phishing attempts none of these laws have made it on the books.

legislation in the United States are mostly based on a state level. One federal law for example,

What is sexual assault? According to the United States Department of Justice it is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient.

Some of the most common cyber-crimes are cyberstalking, identity theft, spam and phishing among others. Cyber stalking has been classified as one of prevalent cybercrimes with many internet users falling victims of cyber bullying. Cyber stalkers meet their victims in different ways; mostly they normally have a relationship either in the real world or online world. Cyberstalking starts when this relationship ends. However, strangers who have collected information on the internet can also be cyber stalkers. The desire to control and even harm their victims is what motivates cyber stalkers. They may go to the measures of personifying their victims and post messages or controversial posts on the boards and chat rooms. In this real regard, cyberstalking is a real crime (Mansourabadi, 2014).

As value customers of the Anthem, Inc. we believe it is important to keep each one of you informed of any incident that might affect your business with us. Your privacy and security is our priority for the reason Anthem, Inc. would like to inform our customers of a recent phishing attack. Unfortunately, we have experienced similar attacks in the past which led many of the employees and customers’ data exposed to hackers. Even though this is a serious matter for the company and the customers it is important for us to make our customers aware that phishing attacks are common and they cause huge losses to both the customers and the companies (Wright et al., 2014). Our most recent attack took place on April 2014 and it affected about 80 million identifiable data stolen via phishing emails. The

Phishing is an attempt to acquire personal information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity through an electronic communication. [ Compl. ¶ 28, ECF No. 1.]

To start off with my first media artifact of media law I will be addressing whether those that partake in the activity of Catfishing can be prosecuted for their actions. When addressing the laws that pertain to Catfishing those that had their pictures/names used for the act of Catfishing have more power to prosecute that those who have been emotionally hurt from being Catfished. According to Gil Zvulony, an internet lawyer, “In most cases, being lied to is not actionable; in other words you cannot sue for being the victim of a lie (i.e.he lied that he had brown eyes). However, when that lie is made to try and get you to part with your money, then that lie is called fraud and is illegal” (Zvulony). There are still ways for those who

Mohebzada, J. G., El Zarka, A., Bhojani, A. H., & Darwish, A. (2012, March). Phishing in a university community: Two large scale phishing experiments. InInnovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2012 International Conference on(pp. 249-254). IEEE.

The internet has brought upon a new revolution of global interconnection where contacting someone on the other side of the world is just a click away, but with this international phenomenon comes an increased susceptibility with unfamiliar technology. Internet crime is compiled of all non-physical crime with the aid of a computer. Although broad in definition internet crimes are largely composed of acts such as cyber fraud, ‘phishing’ (username and password hacking), cyber stalking and hacking. Internet crime does not pose an overwhelming issue in society in terms of its

What is cyberstalking? Cyberstalking is defined as " the use of the Internet, email or other electronic communications to stalk, and generally refers to a pattern of threatening or malicious behaviors." Meaning it would be unlawful for anyone to threaten to cause bodily harm to any person, person's child, sibling, spouse, or dependent. This also includes extorting money or other valuables and threatening to cause any physical damages to a person's

Phishing is where the gullible user is brought to a simulation of the actual site but with a minor difference. Example: “google.com and googIe.com, (where the lowercase l has been replaced by an uppercase

Did you know that from 2005-2009 the internet scams rose from 100,000 per year to nearly 300, 000 per year (Internet Scam Statistics). From 2010- 2012 it continues to rise beyond 350,000 per year, with a monetary loss of over $300 million per year.

With the beginning of internet, various online attacks have been increased and among them, the most popular attack is phishing. Phishing is an online security attack where the hacker targets in achieving sensitive information like passwords, credit card information etc. from the users by making them to believe what they see is what it is. It is the combination of social engineering and technical methods to convince the user to reveal their personal data. The paper discusses about the Phishing social engineering attack theoretically and their issues in the life of human Beings. At the same time this paper also provides different techniques to detect these attacks so that they can be easily dealt with in case one of them occurs. The paper gives a thorough survey of various Phishing attacks along with their preventive measures.