BUS 237 Study Guide - Adware, Magnetic Stripe Card, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Kamal Masri

Document Summary

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in canada because it is relatively easy to do. This kind of theft involves stealing, misrepresenting, or hijacking the identity of another person or business, and provides an effective way to commit other crimes. There are three sources of security threats: human error and mistakes, malicious human activity, and natural events and disasters. Human errors and mistakes include accidental problems caused by both employees and non- employees. Example: employee who misunderstands operating procedures and accidentally deletes customer records, or physical accidents like an employee driving a forklift through the wall of a computer room. Malicious human activity: this category includes employees and others who intentionally destroy data or other system components. For example: hackers who break into a system, virus and worm writers who infect computer systems, and people who send millions of unwanted emails (spam)