Anyone can be a victim. Anybody who uses e-mail and has received
a virus has been a victim of cybervandalism.
Cybercrime—stalking, harassment, tampering, fraud, and theft of
property or service—happens daily by way of the Internet. From
left, Bill Oblitey and Mary Micco of the Computer Science
Department and Dennis Giever of Criminology If Dennis Giever had
a credo, it might be an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure. A hackneyed admonition, perhaps, but one that might make
the hacker drop in his tracks. He believes that it is the
average citizen who will notice an act of terrorism or other
crime by means of technology, and, therefore, blow the whistle.
To notice it, he or she must recognize it. The Criminology
Department chairperson’s vision for an undergraduate minor in
cybersecurity is based on prevention and public awareness; what
makes it special is that it may be the first in the nation to be
multidisciplinary, entailing courses in both computer science
and criminology. It is meant for the avera