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The question arises how do we safeguard against cybercrime and who is responsible for this?... cybercrime cybercrime, or computer crime is an issue of growing importance today.... cybercrime, as the name suggests, is an illegal or immoral act that involves a computer or a network.... cybercrime can be done in different ways and can occur anywhere.... There are two categories of cybercrime.... These two types are the umbrella categories, but there are many other subcategories involved in cybercrime....
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Another major factor that has helped to aggravate the problem of cybercrime is the anonymity that Internet offers.... ??2 This change in motive has occurred mainly due to rise in e-commerce, where we find that with nearly 45% of internet users using some kind of a financial transaction via cyberspace, there has been increasing number of online credits/debit card frauds, attempts at extortion attempts, and phishing....
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Concerns have even stemmed out of activities such as cybercrime which includes: theft of identity, credit card online frauds, illegal pornography, and loss of property that is intellectual in nature.... These users are recognized as soft targets and a number of criminal entities can take advantage of them.... % of the world's population is using internet, but they are unaware of the threats they may face and their awareness of how to avoid such threats is even low in amount (International Business Publications, 2007, p....
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Nevertheless, given the high financial and security stakes that have come to stalk the Internet, cybercrime has become increasingly common and complex.... For this reason, the US and the UK have made legislation to counter and extirpate cybercrime, albeit these laws have their strong and weak points.... INTRODUCTION The phrase cybercrime refers to any legally proscribed action that is performed over the Internet, a local network or the computer or any other device that can support the Internet, a local network or function of a computer....
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The major types of cybercrime can be fraud and identity theft.... But I am not I know many teenagers who can download movies, post to Facebook, find a YouTube video and more, but the minute they need to learn something there is a lack of knowledge.... Personal information can be easily fallen in the wrong hands which can be detrimental to individuals....
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In order to combat cybercrime, international cooperation is necessary.... Authentication mechanisms are also instrumental in preventing various forms of cybercrime.... hellip; cybercrime takes the form of defrauding bank accounts that are online and the illegal downloading of music files.... The creation and distribution of viruses on computers and exposure of confidential information pertaining to businesses amount to cybercrime....
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A more extensive definition was given by the Council of Europe's Budapest Convention on Cyber Crime that defined cybercrime as –
Offences against the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer data and systems, that is, offenses against computer data and systems, including illegal access to a computer system, such as “hacking” (Article 2), the illegal interception of the transmission of computer data (Article 3), data interference, that is, the damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data (Article 4), system interference, that is, hindering of the functioning of computer systems (Article 5), including denial of service attacks, the misuse of devices (Article 6) – the production, sale, procurement, or otherwise making available of devices of data (e....
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The "cybercrime and Its Impact on International Trade" paper explore the cyber-world and take a brief look at how trade is conducted through this media while highlighting the effect of cybercrimes on this line of commerce.... Within the scope of this joint phenomenological convention, greater attention is now being given to what is known as the 'cybercrime'.... xecutive summary: Since the mid-1990s, the European Union, the Council of Europe and the Group of Eight (G8), have come together and made a number of laws and various other regulations to fight against organized crimes that are international in nature....
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