Cyber_Criminals

Cyber Criminals A young teen calling himself “Mafiaboy” was arrested in Montreal, Canada early April of 2000. His crime' He was charged with at least one of the Denial-Of-Service (DoS) hacker attacks that blocked access to such popular sites as Yahoo!, Amazon, and eBay. –“Dembeck” Thirty years ago, a juvenile delinquent like “Mafiaboy” would be reduced to say, setting a mailbox on fire or some other adolescent prank. Now, with today’s technology, his “adolescent prank” disrupted world wide E-commerce and attracted massive media attention. Hackers like “Mafiaboy” are becoming more and more abundant these days, and are finding more innovative ways to accomplish their wide variety of goals. Their goal may be to send a virus to the computer of someone they dislike. Some of these “Cyber Criminals” hack into websites and destroy information, others hack into government or company computers, steal money and information, pirate software and more. There are many forms of computerized crime; most computer crime can be traced back to one common tool (besides a computer of course) the Internet. Yes, the same information super-highway that is used by millions of people everyday has become, to a hacker, nothing more than a gateway to easy, and thanks to up-to-date technology, computer, crime, hacker, cyber, government, information, hackers, virus, people, criminals, computerized, common, technology, security, one, today’s, software, respondents, probably, losses, illegal, day, criminal, computers, attacks, another, agencies, years, year, e-mail, copy, thanks, survey, program, out, itself