WHAT IS COMPUTER CRIME ? All crimes performed or resorted to by abuse of electronic media or otherwise‚ with the purpose of influencing the functioning of a computer or computer system. IN SHORT COMPUTER CRIME is any crime where – Ø Computer is a target. Ø Computer is a tool of crime Ø Computer is medium to crime Profile of Cyber Criminal Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Disgruntled employees. Teenagers. Professional Hackers. Business Rivals. Political Hacktivists. Ex-Boy Friend. Divorced Husbands‚ etc
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Computer crime Computer crime‚ or cybercrime‚ refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network‚ where the computers may or may not have played an instrumental part in the commission of a crime.[1] Netcrime refers‚ more precisely‚ to criminal exploitation of the Internet.[2] Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile‚ particularly those surrounding hacking‚ copyright infringement‚ child pornography‚ and child grooming. There are also problems of privacy when confidential
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CYBER CRIME Cyber-crime or cyber terrorism has emerged as a new way of spreading terror and harming people as individuals or communities as a whole. With development of computers and technology‚ they have been employed by a section of people to commit offences. Cyber-crime at a lower level can be used to harm an individual person causing him physical or mental harm directly or indirectly. At a larger level‚ Communities or nations as a whole can be terrorized causing them financial‚ social‚ cultural
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The Endless Fight with Cyber Crime By Rahul Tyagi About Author Rahul Tyagi is one of the top computer security experts available in India‚ Brand Ambassador of TCIL-IT Chandigarh‚ Vice- President of Cyber Security and Anti-Hacking Org‚ India‚ and Technical Head of News Paper Association of India. Website:- www.rahultyagi.net Mail:- officialrahultyagi@gmail.com My Self Rahul Tyagi and like others‚ I love the internet and yes it’s true‚ think about everything it brought to us‚ think
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Cyber Crime Cyber crime‚ since the late 1980s to the early 1990s‚ has become an increasingly dominant form of crime throughout the world; however‚ we are just recently beginning to create solutions to these growing epidemics in the world. The solutions we have to these rising problems are created to help the victims‚ their families‚ and the communities around the offended persons. In the year 2001 “the FBI opened more than 1‚500 cases involving Internet child sexual exploitation‚ compared
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track as they have evolved from the basic computer geeks who merely send viruses to another computer in efforts to crash it. They are far more advanced‚ and seek to steal information for their own personal gain. There are several different types of cyber criminals. They include: Script kiddies; who lack the experience to hack the larger mainframe systems. However‚ they are capable of doing some type of damage to unsecured systems. These types of criminals are also known as “hacker wannabes”. Also
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the country‚ said on Tuesday. The primer on Philippine cybercrime has been prepared by the DOJ as part of its advocacy program to prevent abuses in cyberspace as the legality of the new law against cybercrime is being deliberated in the Supreme Court. In October 2012‚ the implementation of the new Cyber-crime Prevention Act of 2012 was suspended by the high tribunal for four months until Feb.6 following 15 petitions seeking for the law to be declared unconstitutional wholly or partially. The high
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Seattle men behind cyber-crime spree sentenced to prison Posted by Mike Carter on May 10‚ 2012 at 3:57 PM Two Seattle men at the heart of a cyber-crime spree that involved both high technology and broken glass and jimmied locks were given long prison terms today by a federal judge. The men‚ John Earl Griffin‚ 36‚ and Brad Eugene Lowe‚ 39‚ used a technology called “wardriving” in which they cruised around in a vehicle equipped with a powerful wi-fi receiver to detect business wireless networks. They
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Introduction 2 3 Cyber crime 2 4 Classification of Cyber crime 2 5 Status of Cyber Crime 6 6 Cyber law 7 7 Cyber Law in India 8 8 Advantages of Cyber Law 9 9 General Suggestions and information 10 10 Suggestions for better security 10 11 Conclusion 11 12 Reference 12 Abstract: Cyber law and cyber crime is becoming an important issue for social
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A RESEARCH MONOGRAPH ON CYBER CRIME AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOCIAL SITES TO CYBERCRIMES Abstract Facebook has become a force to reckon with in the field of social networking. It has been ranked as the number one social networking site with a membership of over five hundred million. It has earned trust from many people who have in turn exposed their information without thinking twice into which hands it might fall. Despite the positive contribution and impact that Facebook has provided‚ it
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