Three Examples of Computer Crimes

Three Examples of Computer Crimes

Discuss at least three examples of computer crimes.


Ping of Death

In April 18, 2000 a 15-year old Canadian boy was arrested and charged with two counts of “mischief to data” and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized his computer for his attacks. He was protected by his pseudonym “Mafiaboy.” The attacks were on yahoo.com, amazon.com, buy.com, cnn.com, ebay.com, E*Trade, ZDNet, Dell Computer, Outlaw.net, and also victimizing computers from Stanford University and University of California Santa Barbara. Maximum penalties for juveniles were put on him by the Canadian Federal prosecutors but social workers aiding Mafiaboy said that he still has no remorse for his crimes.


Gate Programs and Password Crackers

This was from the Case of Randal Schwartz and Intel Corporation. Schwartz was a contributor to the PERL programming language and was a contractor for Intel. Schwartz put gate programs on Intel’s computers and accessed the Internet from them. His actions made Intel’s computer vulnerable and are also not in accord with Intel’s rules. Schwartz was able to crack various passwords from Intel computers and did not notify Intel about it. Schwartz received 5 years of probation, 480 hours of community service, 90 days of jail time, and $68,000 restitution for Intel.


Keyloggers, Software Piracy and Bank Account Theft

Juju Jiang, 24 years old, of Flushing, New York was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment, and three years supervised release after that, with around $200,000 restitution for computer fraud and software piracy. Jiang installed keyloggers on terminals of Kinko’s store to collect usernames and passwords. With the confidential information he obtained, he accessed or tried to access bank accounts belonging to other persons, and transferring funds to unauthorized accounts. His two counts of software piracy came from his sale of copies of Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition.