Suffolk County
Computer Crimes
• Established in 1999 Formalized in 2001
• D/Sgt and & 6 Detectives
• Forensics Lab
• Undercover Presence
• Cell Phone Forensics
• FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force
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VOLUME
• 1997 - 10 Cases
• 2009 – 1192 (860 IFCC)
Forensic case FBI Standard 16 Hrs per Gig
– Residence
– 9 Computers, 2 laptops
16 hard Drives including Terabyte Externals,
200+ CD/DVD’s Cameras
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WHAT'S COMING
• INTERNET COMMERCE
- Growing at 10% Per Year
• Social Networking Sites Over 200 Million
• US - of 75% the Population
• World- 1.7 Billion Internet Access
- Marriage Of TV And The Internet
- Cell Phones = Computer
- Wireless
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GENERALLY
• Falls Into Four Categories
– 1) Facilitate**
– 2) Traditional Penal law
• Hacking/Trespass
• Copyright/Trademark
– 3) Forensics
– 4) Crimes Against Children
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FACILITATE
• COMPUTER USED TO FACILITATE
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FORGERY (MOST PREVALENT to 2000)
IDENTITY THEFT
CREDIT CARD FRAUDS
AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT/BIAS CRIMES
– Auction Site Frauds
– Nigerian 419 Scams
– Phishing
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Just because there’s a computer involved doesn’t mean it’s a computer
crime
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National Protection and
Programs Directorate
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Wireless Security
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WEP -Very Lame-can be cracked in 5-10 minutes (The stuff used
by TJ Maxx when they lost millions of credit cards)
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WPA -(tkip) -better, but it is starting to experience some issues
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WPA2 PSK pre shared key -even better without the expense of
setting up and maintaining a radius (authentication) server
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WPA2 enterprise
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Trust But Verify
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Success Elements
• Insider Knowledge
– Computer Skills
– Procedures
– Newer Employees
– Float
• Use The Computer To Split LE
Jurisdictional Lines
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Florida Based
Drop Ships
Bad Guy
Seattle
Washington
B/G Orders $165,000 Parts In
Enter Chat room
and Sells At a
Discount Company
NY
Creates mirror web site
www.starwoodstregis.com
Email for matt.henderson
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Bad Guy
Seattle
Washington
Wires
Back
Orders It Shipped to Suffolk
County Trucked to BTS Nassau
BTS Inc
County
Reseller
Sends Everything
By the Following
Day
50 Customers
Secondary
Bank
Account In
AZ
Sends B/G a
Check $98,000
$130K
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How Many Jurisdictions
• State of WA, CA, FL, AZ, NY
• In New York
– Two Counties, Suffolk and Nassau
– 50 BTS Customers!
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Laptop Security
• Computrace Software
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THANK YOU
COMPUTER CRIMES 516-852-6279