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Computer abuse perpetrators and vulnerabilities of computer systems

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AFIPS Joint Computer Conferences archive
Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1976, national computer conference and exposition table of contents

New York, New York

SESSION: Computers and people: societal concerns table of contents

Pages 65-73

Year of Publication: 1976

Author

Donn B. Parker

Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California

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AFIPS : American Federation of Information Processing Societies

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Analysis of computer abuse experience is valuable in threat and risk studies performed to develop appropriate safeguards in computer use. A profile of computer abuse perpetrators has been developed on the basis of interviews with 17 offenders involved in a total of 15 cases. Common characteristics, occupations, and modus operandi are documented and analyzed. Computer systems' and user organizations' vulnerabilities that facilitated perpetrators' actions are also described, based on study of 375 reported cases of abuse. Eight main vulnerable functions and nine main vulnerable functional locations are identified and ranked by incidence of occurrence. Each vulnerability is described by examples in the form of brief case descriptions. Finally, priorities for safeguards are deduced from the results of the study.

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	1	Cressy, D., Other People's Money, Wadsworth, 1971.
	2	Geis, G. (Editor), White Collar Criminal, The Off ender in Business and Professions, Atherton Press, 1968.
	3	Smigel, E. and H. Ross, Crime Against Bureaucracy, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.

CITED BY

Helen M. Wood, The use of passwords for controlling access to remote computer systems and services, Proceedings of the June 13-16, 1977, national computer conference, June 13-16, 1977, Dallas, Texas

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