Manners of misappropriation in the bank computer systems
Date: November 04, 2003Source: Computer Crime Research Center
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... crime. Among them are [3]:
- information carriers are stolen;
- some persons show abnormal interest to the contains of wastepaper baskets, garbage cans and so on;
- somebody makes unreasoned manipulations with valuable data (for example, frequent transfer of money from one account to another, the availability of several accounts, implementation of transactions with delay in relevant confirmation);
- computer system disturbance;
- virus emergence;
- groundless loss of huge data arrays;
- unauthorized persons are in the service room or representatives of maintenance and control organizations hold an extraordinary inspection of bank premises, equipment, various means of life support systems;
- violated rules of filing computer system working time logbooks (corrections, the lack of some records or their falsification);
- ungrounded manipulations with data (re-recording, replacement, modification, deletion) or acquired information is not renewed;
- key documents have no or forged signatures;
- emergence of counterfeit or falsified documents or reporting forms;
- some bank officials show unreasoned interest to overtime works and unrelated information or they often visit other bank departments and services;
- a bank official shows an open displeasure or raises an objection to his/her activities controlled;
- numerous complaints of bank clients.
The only way-out is a close interaction of three groups of law enforcement officers (investigators, experts), bank personnel (experts in bank computer technologies) and those engaged in protecting bank computer information to fight banking cybercrimes in a more effective way.
1. V. Golubev - Banking computer crimes – Zaporozhye: PH “Pavel”, 1997. – P.35.
2. P. Bilenchuk, B. Romanyuk, V. Tsimbalyuk – Computer crimes. Manual. – Kiev: Attica, 2002. – P.159-160.
3. M. Vertuzayev, Yu. Kondratyev, S. Pugachov, A. Yurchenko – Manners of cybercrimes committed by using bank payment cards. – Information technologies and protection of data. – Zaporozhye, 1999. - P.51.
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