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Cyber Power
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Cyber Power

by Solange Ghernaouti-Helie
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
15h 17m
English
EPFL Press
Content preview from Cyber Power
Cybercrimes Against Assets 101
Thefts of telecommunications services account for some of the greatest
economic losses experienced by telecommunications operators. Telecommu-
nication infrastructures are high priority targets for criminals. Once fraudsters
have accessed the switchboard and gained access to the PBX (Private Branch
eXchange – telecommunication switch) by stealing identities and access
codes, they can have access to dial-in/dial-out circuits. This provides free calls
and call time, which can be sold and thus used to generate prots as illustrated
by the two following examples.
In 2000, a computer engineer was accused of stealing ...
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ISBN: 9781466573048