Running head: COMPUTER CRIME Categories of Computer Crime S.R Skolnick Strayer University In today's society computers are used to commit crimes. These crimes are separated into four categories. These categories are as follows, the computer as a target, the computer as an instrument of crime, the computer as incidental to a crime, and crimes associated with the prevalence of computers. In example of the computer as a target, is a case of Kevin Mitnick. Kevin Mitnick was once known as the
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IS CYBER CRIME? Crime is a common word that we always heard in this globalization era. Crimes refer to any violation of law or the commission of an act forbidden by law. Crime and criminality have been associated with man since long time ago. There are different strategies practices by different countries to contend with crime. It is depending on their extent and nature. It can be concluded that a nation with high index of crime cases cannot grow or develop well. This is because crime is the direct
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Digital Computer Crime There are multiple different scenarios in which computers can play a part in crime. Technology has made significant leaps and bounds in the last three-quarters of a century, which is truly astonishing (Taylor, Fritsch, & Liederbach, 2015). While it is wonderful for thousands of citizens across the world to be able to communicate instantly back and forth, there is a percentage of people that use computers, the Internet, and electronic communication to cause harm to
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Digital Computer Crime Matthew Moeller Dr. Neal Basta CIS170 April 21, 2015 Computer crimes are criminal activities that involve using a computer and a network to gain unauthorized access with the intent of deleting, altering, or damaging computer data. Due to them being extremely versatile, establishing criminal and noncriminal behavior when in use can be very difficult at times. The four most common categories of computer crimes are computer as a target, instrument of a crime, incidental
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Digital Computer Crime Information Technology in Criminal Justice Lashavia Davis Strayer University Professor Marina Stakic February 4, 2015 Computer crimes refer to any crime that involves a computer and a network, where unauthorized use of the computers where it may or may not have played an instrumental part in committing the crime. Computer crimes have a broad range of potentially illegal activities. It may be divided into one of two types of categories, “crimes
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pornography is a crime how has not been mentioned in this chapter. This crime falls under the second category because the computer is being used as a tool to commit a crime. They use the computers to sell illegal content over the internet. Critical Thinking: Sex trafficking is a major issue. Review Questions: 1. Cybercrime is the use of computers and other like technologies to commit crimes. 2. Cybercrime: All digital crimes. Traditional Crime: All non-digital crimes. 3. a
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CYBER CRIME Crimes refer to any violation of law or the commission of an act forbidden by law. Definition: cybercrime can be defined as crimes committed on the internet using the computer as either a tool or a targeted victim According to Wikipidia.com cybercrime also known as computer crime that refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network Cybercrime includes any criminal act dealing with computers and networks (called hacking). Additionally, cybercrime also includes traditional
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CYBER CRIME Presented by : GROUP 3 CONTENT • • • • • • • • • • Introduction History of cyber crime Definition Categories of cyber crime Types of cyber crime Cybercrime statistics Cyber Threat Evolution Cyber crime in Philippines Safety tips Conclusion WHAT DO YOU KNOW? INTRODUCTION • Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe activity in which computers or networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity. INTRODUCTION • Examples of cybercrime in which
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attack against information, computer systems, programs, and data that can result in violence against civilian targets. Attacks are fast, easy and relatively inexpensive. The attack is a commission of a crime with the use of a computer and a network. Growth in the use of computers has caused computers to be a large part of illegal activities. The categories that we fall as a victim are Crimes committed using a computer as a target, as a tool, as incidental to computer use, or associated with the
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internet is cyber crime. which is an illegal activity that committed on the internet and this includes email espionage, credit card fraud, spam’s, software piracy download illegal music, steal money from online bank account and so on .It also includes non monetary offenses such as creating and distributing viruses on other computers and posting confidential business information on the internet. Basically cyber crime can be divided into three major categories such as cyber crime against person, cyber
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