CYBERCRIME

Cybercrime

Cybercrime

Cybercrime is a broad term that encompasses "all criminal offenses may be committed on or through a computer system generally connected to a network."

So this is a new form of crime and delinquency that differs from traditional forms in that it is in a virtual space called cyberspace. In recent years the democratization of access to computer networks and globalization has been factors in the development of cybercrime.

Today we can then combine the three types of cyber crimes:

Offences specific information technologies and communication among these offenses, there are violations of the automated processing of data, automatic processing of personal data (such as the transfer of personal information), violations of bank cards, ciphers unauthorized or unreported or interceptions.

Offences related to information technologies and communication: this category includes child pornography, incitement to terrorism and racial hatred on the internet attacks on people, damage to property.

The offenses facilitated by information technology and communication that are online scams, counterfeiting or other intellectual property infringement.

The increasing dependence we have developed about us cyber technologies often produce fear and anxiety, especially because Urban legends abound telling us that we losing everything, from money to the identity through Internet connection. The truth in these as in many others is much more nuanced than what we usually hear. (Ybarra and Mitchell, 2005) Although there certain dangers, they are not too different in reality virtual who haunt us in the real world. Thus, just as we must guard against the wrongdoers our daily lives, we have the responsibility to do in our forays into cyberspace and all that that relates to the management of information technology. The opposite would be tantamount to acting foolishly in the basics of real security, such as leaving the house alone and with open doors, or car the keys in the ignition. (Weingart, 2003)

Antivirus: basic but insufficient

Oscar Morales, an expert in information assurance, explains that a cybercrime is "any illegal act is committed through computers, such as identity theft, unauthorized access to systems, information exchange, fraud, stealing money to organized crime that uses media electronic crime (child pornography, racking people, etc.) ".. The most common is the use of virus that can erase, fade, break down and / or facilitate criminal's access to personal information. Antiviruses are a good defense and not open messages from strangers, or those that sound strange although they seem someone you know. For a virus spread the user must perform a specific act, such as send an infected email, but there are called "worms" simply self-propagating. The expert explained that to access the unprotected network, we become vulnerable to an outsider to take control of our computer, we steal information or carry out any type of attack through it. Not enough to install software protector, but you also have to update it and worry it is updated, this is a work in progress. (Hoar, 2001)

Possible defenses

It is important to keep the computer with the latest versions of software that has caused the manufacturer, usually released to the public under the ...