Cybercrime on Computerized Systems
This situation involves a large bank that has recently installed a new software system for handling all transactions and account storage. An employee at the company developing the software programmed a "back door" into the system, and got another employee to unknowingly install it. Some weeks later, millions were stolen from a number of accounts at the bank. This situation was chosen to highlight the amount of trust that large corporations place in programmers of critical systems. Programmers are quite capable of abusing extremely large and important systems without leaving a trace, and it is surprising that this sort of situation does not happen more often in today's world. The paper provides an analysis of this type of cybercrime, possible ways in which such a crime could have been prevented, and the consequences of such crime in general. This paper shows that a complete reliance on a single computerized system makes it easier for such a......

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Title: Cybercrime On Computerized Systems
Approximate Word Count: 2883
Approximate Pages: 12 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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