CRIJ 3379 - Survey of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

Credit(s): 3

This course examines various ways that information technology is used to commit crimes (hacking, denial of service attacks, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, virus dissemination, identity theft, phishing, spoofing, etc.). This course also looks at investigative techniques used to discover and investigate cybercrimes and the challenges involved in prosecuting these crimes. Topics to be covered include cybercrime classification, vulnerability of computer systems, various types of computer intrusions and attacks, cyberterrorism, the social and economic impact of cybercrime, and computer forensics.