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    Susan W. Brenner’s Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace is scary, exciting, and informative all in one book. It takes you on rollercoaster from start to finish as your eyes are opened to the realities of cybercrime and cybercriminals’ capabilities as our technologies have progressed. Brenner’s book is an excellent piece for those that are not savvy about technology terminology and cybercrime. Brenner opens by giving an example of the chaos that a cybercriminal can make and the long distance

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    These individuals are often malicious and have many means at their disposal for breaking into a [computer] system”(Dictionary.com). The third type is called a phreaker. “A phreaker is a [hacker] who engages in the art of phreaking” : [frddk-ing phone phreak] Phreaking is the art and science of cracking the telephone network so as, for example, to make free long-distance phone calls”(Dictionary.com). You do not have to be intelligent to be a hacker. Movies today depict hackers tapping

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    The sixteenth notes in the red box acts as a junction into having the two soloists switch roles and gives the intro to the second theme a lot of suspended and anticipated notes in the sequence. Moreover, the blue box in figure 7.1 represents the exact same lyrical line in figure 5.2 except this time the roles are now switched; the first violin solo showcase the moving sixteenth notes first, followed by a group of eighth notes with the second violin solo, then the second violin solo repeats the sixteenth

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    Running Head: A History of Hacking A History of Hacking In APA Style Joseph Catotal Loyola University Chicago Abstract From wireless telegraphy to supercomputers, hacking has played a crucial role in technological history. Through the decades, hackers have been manipulating different forms of technology through the various tools that they create. Many different methods of hacking have surfaced and every generation seems to create a different tool to aid hackers with their goals

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    Cybercrime The misuse of computer systems has been a prevalent issue ever since the invention of computers. In this digital age, cybercrime is the fastest growing categories of crime facing many nations. It is pervasive and epidemic, threating billions of computer users and causing damages worth in billions. Every year, the numbers of attacks are increasing in numbers and complexity. And as we become more reliant on information systems, our security and privacy are in increasingly constant threat

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    the Wires is a story of Kevin Mitnick’s life. I find the book’s topic compelling because I have always been interested in doing what Kevin does: hacking and working with what makes technology tick. He also opened my eyes to a new culture called “phreaking”. As I read, the book became even more interesting, as Kevin not only told us what he did; he told us how he did it descriptively. He told us comedic stories about pranks he would pull on businesses with his colleagues, his close run-ins with authority

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    Ethical Hacking and Information Security Merriam-Webster defines Hacker as, a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage. But what if I told you that having a hacker is necessary? Ethical Hacking is paramount to the security of our Information Technologies (IT). The task of testing your computers and network for security vulnerabilities and plugging the vulnerabilities you find before the opposition gets a chance to exploit them. Without having

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    new Computers have them built into the motherboard. It has one or sometimes more RJ45 socket(s) that connect to a modem. The older and deprecated version used to have RJ11 sockets to connect to the network. Due to it being extremely vulnerable to phreaking and war-dialing, it has now been replaced with

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    scams. In the digital age of the 21st century, “hammers” have enthusiastically adopted computers as their newfound weapon against the “nails” of the earth. It is no secret that digital crime is on the rise and has been ever since the days of phone phreaking Ma Bell. These days, the newest scourge on the pockets and psyches of the average, gullible civilian is the advance fee fraud scam, also known as the Nigerian 419 scam. This paper attempts to further explore this infamous phenomenon in terms of its

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    Phreaking | The act of studying, experimenting with, or exploring telephone systems, telephone company equipment, and systems connected to public telephone networks. . Pop-up | A type of window that appears on top of the browser window. Pop-ups generally

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