Jul 28 2011

Types of Computer Crime

Types of Computer Crime Review


Types of Computer crime is vary for its purposed. What are the types of the computer crime and why does a computer crime can be happened? It’s all as the result of the information technology’s advancement in these recent days that people in this world have become so easy in access the internet and to communicate through the world from one person to another even if they have the long distance. The distance is no longer being a problem for easy communicating. They can communicate through the email, chat media, social media networking and the most advanced one, the video calling that make it possible to see face to face in the computer.

 

types of computer crimes

Beside been used for communicating, computer is also has been used for the education purpose, marketing purpose, business purpose, for searching every information   that they want to know, looking for pleasure, gaming and many other activities can be done with the computer that have the access to the internet. Through the internet, everyone in this world can be connected. And the human being that has the evil side is misuse the technology for bad purposed. So that it can create the crime through the computer. This types of computer crime should be learned about to avoid the crime. And if you have known about the types of computer crime so that you can be carefully in using the computer.

 

The types of computer crime can be hacking, virus dissemination, denial of service attack, software piracy, pornography, IRC crime, credit card fraud, salami attack, threatening, phishing, spoofing, net extortion, cyber stalking and also cyber defamation. These types of computer crime can be very dangerous; moreover it also can make you lose your life.

 

The profile of people that is doing all the types of computer crime that has been listed above might be the professional hackers,  teenagers that is familiar with the computer programmed, the unemployed person, business rival, political hacktivist and many kind of people might be able to be the person. The cyber terrorism and warfare are also types of computer crime that are very harmful to the society.

 

Types of computer crime sometimes hard to be avoided, but everyone can defend these crimes tough it’s hard to do because of the internet media is very wide. The cyber-detective is also need time in finding the suspect. There are many victims of these kinds of crime. Though there have been the laws that regulate the punishment for people who do the types of computer crime.