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 Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of  your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their  Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and  enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the  following questions: 

1. Any crime which takes place primarily or fully online is known as cybercrime and can range from cyber-stalking or bullying to large scale identity theft or online breaches (Symantec, n.d.). One such large scale attack is the Equifax Data Breach which came to light on July 29, 2017 (Calyptix Security, 2017). On July 29, Equifax noticed, and then blocked suspicious network activity on a web portal used by customers to file disputes (Calyptix Security, 2017). Unfortunately, an analysis of Apache Struts (the portal’s application framework), which was performed at a later time revealed it was not only outdated, but had a severe security vulnerability which had gone unresolved (Calyptix Security, 2017). Equifax quickly hired Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm, to perform an analysis of the incident and the results were shocking (Calyptix Security, 2017). To start, Mandiant revealed that Equifax had an enormous data breach which affected 143 million consumers within the United States. After further investigation that number increased to 145.5 million and now, as of March 1, 2018, the count is up to 147.9 million affected consumers (Fung, 2018).  

2. The cyber crime that was committed was a common crime, identity theft. In 2014 I was notified that my credit card had been charged numerous times on a online gambling site. After receiving the notification I immediately checked my account and realized that there were over $2000 in fraudulent charges. This was extremely bad timing as it was nearing Christmas time and this was how we purchase gifts for our children. Investigation into the crime by my bank determined that my card information was stolen from a website that my wife had made purchases on. This is very unfortunate but also very common.

To avoid this crime in the future my wife and I only do online purchases with secured servers. This being sites that use the https:// and not anything else. I was curious into how this happened and returned the site I suspected to have stolen our information. I did a little digging into the site and who the owner/corporation was that ran it. It was a legitimate business but was very new and extremely small. I believe that the individual/s who set up this site did not fully understand the level of security that they need to run a secure website. Online reviews revealed that I was not the only individual who had their identity stolen. Since this happened I am always sure to check the legitimacy of the website and look for any reviews that may be posted online.