Hacking: hacking is a crime where one person breaks into someone else’s personal computer using a variety of software and access the information they have stored on it. The owner of the computer doesn’t know that their computer is being hacked and it can be done from another computer.
Theft / piracy: piracy is when someone illegally downloads music, movies, TV series, games and software from the internet. This violates copyrights of the original creators / owners.
Cyber Stalking: Cyber stalking is a kind of online harassment where the stalker sends the victim a series of emails and online messages. The stalker usually know the person they are stalking. They make the victim’s life miserable with all the messages.
Identity Theft: With this kind of cyber crime the thief hacks the victim’s online banking account in order to get useful information like debit/credit card details to buy things online in their name or transfer the money from one account to another.
Malicious Software: These are Internet-based software or programs that are used to disrupt a network. The software is used to gain access to a system to steal sensitive information or data or causing damage to software present in the system.
Child soliciting and Abuse: This is also a type of cyber crime where criminals solicit minors via chat rooms for the purpose of gaining pictures for child pornography.
(Anon. N.d. Cross Domain Solutions. Accessed 17 May 2015. http://www.crossdomainsolutions.com/cyber-crime/)
Ways to prevent becoming a victim of cyber crime:
• Anti-virus management
• Intrusion detection
• Firewall management
• Identity management
• Routing and encryption
• Directory management
• Asset management
• Configuration management
(Anon. n.d. Cross Domain Solutions. Accessed 17 May 2015. http://www.crossdomainsolutions.com/cyber-security/)
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