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Option 1

Article title

Social engineering (security)

Article Evaluation

The entire article needs to be re-written. It lacks actual social engineering tactics, and it includes a lot of information that is irrelevant to the practice. Links are outdated and not all are relevant.

Sources

https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/

https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/social-engineering

Option 2

Article title

Cybercrime

Article Evaluation

Comprehensive article but some topics are not appropriate. For instance, it classifies the Stuxnet virus as a notable cybercrime incident. Stuxnet was not cybercrime, instead it was an act of cyber sabotage/espionage/terrorism (depends on the side looking at it). It also adds disciplines such as cyberwarfare and cyberterrorism as forms of cybercrime. All different disciplines.

Sources

https://www.csoonline.com/article/562691/stuxnet-explained-the-first-known-cyberweapon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Option 3

Article title

Virtual crime

Article Evaluation

Article discusses virtual crime but reference physical sweatshops. The idea that sweatshops in the real world are forcing people to do actions in a virtual world is somehow a virtual crime. Doesn’t matter what a sweatshop is doing, that fact people are forced into a sweatshop is the actual crime, not the virtual aspect of it. Sweatshops have operated long before the virtual worlds were created. What the people are being forced to do are not crimes, the fact they are being forced is the crime.

Sources

None yet.

Option 4

Article title

Cyberwarfare

Article Evaluation

Comprehensive article explaining all facets of cyberwarfare. Some areas can be challenged though. The article lists that a motivation of cyberwarfare is income generation or that cyber warfare stems from the private sector. These are criminally motivated, not warfare. Cyberwarfare is between nation-states and although some states do engage in illicit cyber activity to generate income and evade sanctions, these are not considered acts of war.

Sources

There are several publications that more often than not associate financial motivation with cyber crime rather than cyberwarfare.

Option 5

Article title

Information warfare

Article Evaluation

Article discussing information warfare but heavily skewed from a U.S. standpoint. New information from a neutral world view has to be added and new sources as well to support any new information. The article’s talk page highlight this and several other issues.

Sources

None found yet. Article last choice to edit.