Part One: 1. Look up the court case: United States v. Rodriguez, 628 F.3d 1258 (
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Question
Part One:
1. Look up the court case: United States v. Rodriguez, 628 F.3d 1258 (11th Cir. 2010)
2. Answer the following questions: a. What was the criminal act that Rodriguez committed? b. Why did the government charge Rodriguez with 17 misdemeanor counts of violating the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?" c. Why did the court reject the argument by Rodriguez that his conviction cannot stand because he never used the personal information he accessed without authorization to defraud anyone or gain financially?
Part Two: Read the case scenario below:
Patco Construction Co. v. Ocean Bank
According to the complaint, on May 7, 2009, hackers stole Patco's login credentials and initiated a series of transfers throughout the week that totaled over $588,000. Patco discovered the fraud on May 13, when one of its co-owners found a notice from Ocean Bank in his mailbox, stating that several recent transfers had been rejected. Patco notified the bank on the morning of May 14. While the bank attempted to rescind the transfers, Patco was ultimately out at least $345,000 in stolen funds. The bank claimed that Patco was responsible for the loss, citing a clause in its e-banking and bill payment agreement, which states that customers who use automated clearinghouse (ACH) transactions on their commercial accounts "assume all liability and responsibility to monitor those accounts on a daily basis" and "in the event you object to any ACH debit, you agree to notify us of your objection on the same day the debit occurs." Patco allegedly didn't discover or report the losses until days after most had occurred. Patco claims that Ocean Bank is responsible for the loss, arguing that the bank breached its duty to provide a commercially reasonable security system because it only provided a single-factor authentication system for wire transfers.
Answer the following questions: 1. From your view: State the following positions: a) Patco Construction Co., b) Ocean Bank c) Is this a hacker or cracker? Explain your answers. 2. Who do you think is responsible? Who do you think should win this case? (See if you can find out the court's decision.)
In your opinion, should hackers/crackers/hactivists be hired by the entities that they violated to protect their systems?
Explanation / Answer
a) Patco Construction Co. : patco is an organization who should have kept track on their day to day transaction, they could have separate team for transaction check team.
b) Ocean Bank: there is no fault of the bank, bank always try to bring new feature to people to make convenient banking, attacker was having valid credentials then its not a fault of the bank. Bank cannot prevent such a incident.
Here bank could have some system where after every transaction, it should have sent the mail to the owner of the account, so that after the initial transactions the owner could have got this credential leak issue.
2. Who do you think is responsible? Who do you think should win this case? : Here obviously the pacto is responsible, they should have strong password which could have prevent the password leak.
Here case could be won by either parties, but the bank also should have intruder prevention system, and there might be chances that the credentials are leaked from pacto itself.
In my opinion, i don’t think so that the pacto hired the attackers, hacker has my ways to hack somebody’s credentials.