BTM 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Bluesnarfing, Malware, Adware

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: Rafaat Saade

Document Summary

Cybercrimes are criminal acts conducted by cybercriminals through the use of computers. Computer users need to protect themselves from becoming victims of cybercriminals. Virus: a program that attaches itself to another program and spreads itself to other computers. Viruses are hidden within the code of a host program. Any computing device can be infected with a virus. Polymorphic viruses: periodically rewrite themselves to avoid detection. Stealth viruses: erase their code from the hard drive and reside in the active memory. Programs designed to detect viruses: scan files looking for virus signatures (unique code, provide options for deleting or fixing infected files, inoculate files against further infection. Types of hackers: white hat: hacker but not on purpose, black hat: hacker on purpose, script kiddies: amateur hackers. Hackers try to steal data stored on hard drives: credit card numbers, bank account numbers. Also can steal information through packet sniffing or a key-