CYBERCRIMES

Hello everyone. Today I would like to share you all about a top rated issue all over the world. Yes, it’s about cybercrime. Cybercrime is also known as computer crime. Cybercrime, refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network.

Cybercrimes are also defined as 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. ( defined by Dr. Debarati Halder and Dr. K. Jaishankar )

There are few types of cybercrimes that we should know :

1. HACKING**- Hacking in simple terms means illegal intrusion into a computer system without the permission of the computer owner or user.

2. VIRUS DISSEMINATION- Malicious software that attaches itself to other software.

3. SOFTWARE PIRACY**- This is about theft of software through the illegal copying of genuine programs or the counterfeiting and distribution of products intended to pass for the original. This action can be done in various ways as end user copying.

4. PORNOGRAPHY**- Pornography is the first consistently successful ecommerce products. Pornography is also encourage people to visit their websites very easily.

5. IRC Crime- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers have chat rooms in which people from anywhere the world can come together and chat with each other Criminals use it for meeting conspirators. And this IRC crime is mostly done by those sleeper cells around the world.

6. CREDIT CARD FRAUD**- Typing the credit card number into any websites off the vendor for online transaction. If electronic transactions are not secured the credit card numbers can be stolen by the hackers who can misuse this card by impersonating the credit card owner.

7. STALKING**- The criminal follows the victim by sending emails, entering the chat rooms frequently.

8. CYBER DEFAMATION**- The criminal sends emails containing defamatory matters to all concerned of the victim or post the defamatory matters on a website. (disgrutled employee may do this against boss, ex-boys friend against girl, divorced husband against wife etc)

9. SALAMI ATTACK**- In such crime criminal makes insignificant changes in such a manner that such changes would go unnoticed. Criminal makes such program that deducts small amount like RM2.50 per month from the account of all the customer of the Bank and deposit the same in his account. In this case no account holder will approach the bank for such small amount but criminal gains huge amount.

(** famous in Malaysia)