Explore Hacking Websites or Company Investigation

Respond to ONE of the following questions:

Question A

Choose a company to conduct a passive search. Use the information provided in the text and lecture 1 to investigate what information you can find out about the company.

• How much information did you locate?
• Was it easy to locate the information?
• How valuable would this information be to someone wishing to harm the company?

Question B

• Visit the website http://www.happyhacker.org/gtmhh/bank1.shtml read this article on how to break into banks.
• Visit the 2600 Magazine website (www.2600.com).
• Are these websites useful to criminals?  What do you find interesting/disturbing about them?
• Search the Internet to find websites that have hacking tools available for download and use. What kind of information can these sites provide to criminals?

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