Cyber crime

Cyber crime

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of our knowledge by exploring some relevant facts relating to cyber crime and computer forensics. The advancement of technology such as the Internet has provided individuals and organizations with a means to both commit new types of crimes and adopt new methods of committing traditional street crimes. From online identity theft to cyber stalking to viruses, millions of people worldwide are affected by online deviant behavior every day. Internet crime is quickly becoming one of the biggest and most threatening problems for both law enforcement and the public at large. Legal approaches have been developed throughout the history of the Internet to address the different types of Internet crime (Alshalan, 2008).

The new era of crime are chaired by technological advances and widespread use of a computer in our daily work. We are living in a time when the digitalization of processes and documents is taking over all institutions of various countries. Most computer crimes are committed within the same companies, such as unauthorized access to information, industrial or commercial espionage, violating the privacy of individuals, information theft, identity theft, harassment via e-mail among the most important. Initially it was known that these activities can be tested and reported, because they have to turn and not know how to deal with such issues. As a result of computer crime wave, digital researchers were born using computer forensic techniques to counteract and find the causes of crime. One of the greatest means of communication that we have, such as the internet, is totally unprotected. Computer crime is a new challenge for the national courts and police as it completely changed the patterns of common crimes all over the world (Clarke, 2004). In this paper, the author will examine different aspects of cyber crime in the light of computer forensics.

Discussion & Analysis

Cyber Crime

The birth of Internet crime brought with it a slew of terms—including technology crime, information crime, intellectual crime, and online crime. As a result, there is often confusion as to the exact definition of Internet crime. To understand what Internet crime is, it is necessary to understand what it isn't. Internet crime is often incorrectly referred to as computer crime. Computer crime is any illegal activity that is perpetrated through the use of a computer. Internet crime, on the other hand, is any illegal activity perpetrated on an information network, such as the Internet. Though the two may overlap, they are not the same. For example, making illegal copies of a CD would be considered a computer crime, as a computer is necessary to perform the action. However, if one were to illegally download music from the Internet, this act would be considered an Internet crime, as use of the Internet or other information network is necessary to perform the download. While a computer crime may involve the Internet, the Internet is not necessary; while an Internet crime may involve a computer, a computer is not necessary (Franklin, ...