Ms. Silva
English 12
8 November 2013
Cybercrime and the Deep Web Hello new recruits today you will be learning a detailed report on the world of cybercrime. The information on this report will consist of; what is Cyber-Crime? Why is it an important issue in our country? Current trends in the Cyber-Crime world, profile analyze on one infamous hacker: “George Hotz” and finally advice on dealing with Cyber-Crime.
What is Cyber-Crime?
Cyber-Crime: covers any criminal act dealing with computers and networks. Furthermore, cyber-crime also includes classical crimes conducted through the Internet. Cyber-crime is a type of crime that has been happening in this Science and Technology riddled years. There are a lot of cyber-crimes. According to “www.webroot.com” cyber-crime also known as hacking refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network. Cyber-crimes can be described as crimes committed on the internet using computers as either a tool or a victim.
Computers are used as a tool in cyber-crime when the person is the target of cyber-crime. But computer can be used as targets when the crime is directed to a pc. Also cyber-crime can include traditional crimes that been made with access to the Internet. For example discrimination crimes, telemarketing fraud, identity theft, and credit card account thefts. Simply put cybercrime can be described as any ill-intended action that was conducted by using computers or other devices with the access of internet. These actions can have harmful effects to others as well.
Cyber-Crime Trends
There are several ways to commit a cyber-crime, from the simple phishing scam to the massive spam send internationally to emails. Although these methods are still effective there are always new ways of exploiting security loopholes and bugs. This is why I present to you the top cyber-crime trends of 2013.
1. Blackhole Web malware
To begin with the rise and fall of market leading Blackhole Web malware
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