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CYBER CRIME. WHAT IS CYBER CRIME???. Also known a computer crime, digital crime , e-crime, and electronic crime.
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WHAT IS CYBER CRIME??? • Also known a computer crime, digital crime , e-crime, and electronic crime. • It means that Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm to the victim directly or indirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet and mobile phones
SHAPES OF CYBER CRIMES • cyberstalking • fraud and identity theft • Information walfare • Phishing scams • Harassment • Threat • Drug trafficking • Cyber terrorism • Obscene or offensive content
WHY CRIME CYBER COMMITTED??? • For pursuit of fame and to gain reputation for intelligence or brilliance • Purely out of mischief • For financial means (money fraud) • To get revenge on someone they hate • To signal some form of protest • Purely to pursue criminal activities • To steal identity (identity theft) • To forge documents and messages
EFFECTS OF CYBER CRIME • LOSS OF PROFITS - occurs when the company’s sensitive financial information is leaked or stolen and used by outside parties to illegally draw funds from its account
REDUCED PRODUCTIVITY - Due to the measures that many companies must implement to counteract cyber crime, there is often a negative effect on employees' productivity. This is because, due to security measures, employees must enter more passwords and perform other time-consuming acts in order to do their jobs. Every second wasted performing these tasks is a second not spent working in a productive manner.
DAMAGED REPUTATIONS -customers will start to lose confidence in the ability of the company to take care of it security, thus the company’s reputation can be badly affected • WASTE OF VALUABLE TIME - IT personal waste most of their valuable time to handle security breaches an other related problems caused by crime cyber
EXAMPLES OF CYBER CRIME • FBI warns U.S. businesses of new Chinese cybercrime scheme By Terry Frieden, CNN Justice Producer | April 28, 2011 FBI agents combating international cybercrime are currently battling hackers on two new fronts -- from a remote corner of China to the virtual battlefields of "Call of Duty" emanating from the family playroom. On the international stage, FBI cybersleuths have informed U.S. businesses that millions of dollars have been fraudulently wired from business accounts in U.S. banks to banks in a remote coastal region of China near the Russian border. The FBI says apparently legitimately licensed Chinese economic and trade companies have successfully stolen at least $11 million dollars in a series of wire transfers to Heilongjiang province.
Study: Many UK businesses prey to cybercrime August 30, 2001 Cybercrime is on the rise in the UK and for the first time, those businesses that are hit by hacks are more likely to be attacked by hackers from outside of the company instead of inside, according to a study published Wednesday by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Of the 148 companies surveyed for the study "Cybercrime Survey 2001," two thirds have been the victim of a "serious" cybercrime in the past year, said CBI spokesman Roger Davidson. The CBI defined a serious cybercrime as a case of hacking of a company's computer system, a virus attack or credit card fraud.
Parents sue over Facebook photos of dead daughter By JordanaOssad, CNN | March 29, 2011 The parents of a murder victim are suing Facebook after a paramedic pleaded guilty to photographing their daughter's corpse and posting the image to the social networking site, according to court documents. Caroline Wimmer, 26, was found by her parents, Ronald and Martha, after she was strangled with a hair-dryer cord in March 2009 in Staten Island, New York. Paramedic Mark Musarella -- who responded to their corresponding emergency call -- later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after posting to Facebook the photographs he took, the documents said.
WAYS TO PREVENT CYBER CRIME • Turn on your spam blocker • Make sure you have adequate anti-virus software for your computer • Use your computer's firewall protection feature, which is a digitally created barrier that prevents hackers from getting into your computer system. • Encrypt important data you don't want compromised. • Be wary of providing personal information via a website you know nothing about • Make sure that you do online shopping on a secure website, like those with a URL that starts with "https" and/or have a trusted or VeriSign seal. • Monitor the online activities of your children.
REFERENCE • http://www.ehow.com/how_4967690_prevent-cyber-crime.html • http://www.dell.com/downloads/ca/support/top_10_steps_to_protect_against_cybercrime_dell_en.pdf • http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/cybercrime/featured/5 • 1citizen Student Quick Reference 1st Ed, Sept 2011, PrestariangSystems SdnBhd , Selangor, Malaysia.