Computer Crime
Essays

Internet technology has brought with it a veritable revolution in communication and worldwide contact with a wide variety of cultures and viewpoints. This has also brought about a wide array of possibilities and changes…

"The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works - should be unlimited and total.

The weakest link in an organization's security architecture is typically found in the user. This paper explores the concept of developing security awareness in the individual user. In addition, the definition of…

Phishing is the practice of obtaining someone else's personal information for the purpose of committing a crime, either at that time or sometime in the future. Protecting one's personal information from theft has become…

As the world's economic and information infrastructure becomes globalized, a new organized elite criminal group is being shaped. Organized crime groups are not disappearing but instead are adapting and shifting in order…

In evaluating the research necessary for the paper on Identity theft and its economic impact, it was important to understand the necessary elements that compromise such a project. These components were an evaluation of…

Cybercrime is a concept that never been comprehensively defined using a single and universal definition. It can be used to refer to a criminal offence that involves the use of Computers as the instruments of crime.

The law enforcement response to electronic threats requires an investigation like any other type of crime (Technical Working Group for Electronic Crime Scene Investigation 2001). When it comes to threatening emails, the…

Computer misuse started from the time of computer developments, and laws to counter computer crimes, came much later.The efforts of fitting this new criminal trend into old criminal offence concepts were soon unworkable. It is a fact that the current Computer Misuse legislation unfit for purpose. technology advancements present new and complex crimes, which require more efforts to curb the constant developments. There are minimal possibilities of this approach because of the ease of working around code-based solutions. It is insufficient creating a legislation, which prohibits certain usage of the computer with claims of lack of authorization. The government must understand the need for allocation of funds for further research on the matter.

Commenting on the rubric of privacy protection in sections 3.1 and 3.2, we now have a brief understanding that the paradigm of integrating and maintaining privacy remains quite challenging in a pervasive computing…