Cybercrimes

Running Head: CYBER CRIMES Valencia Crossgrove Cyber Space and Cyber Crimes Kaplan University CJ 215-01AU Exploration of Computer Crime Instructor: Instructor: Andrew McIntosh In the last fifteen years, the increase in technology and the use of computers in both the personal and business world has increased tremendously. This increase has brought changes in all areas of society including such areas as banking, the stock exchange, air traffic control, telephones, electric power, health and education. These industries have not only improved but are now largely dependant on information technology for their operation. With all this new technology the twenty first century will be a very educational century. Many basics of a traditional society can be found taking shape as fragments. With electronic commerce comes electronic merchants, plugged-in educators provide online education. It is important to realize that fragile and open socialization processes occur all together and constantly through our personal and professional connections. With this being said we both learn and reinforce learning of social group in numerous situations and social contexts. For example, socialization occurs among friends and family members in private and public situations and among professional age groups. They are in the office, working in the field at job sites, and traveling together to training conferences. Deviant behaviors are behaviors that differ clearly from established social norms. Deviant behaviors viewed negatively very often even though they may not rise to the level of being either abusive or illegal. Socialization is the process of influencing people to behave in certain ways. The formal mechanisms with informal means of social control to define and help maintain societal order and stability. Predicting the future is full of risk. Cybercrime will continue to rise in the future. Therefore, it will become more imperative for businesses to protect their assets as well as business data on clients. As technology improves, businesses will need to enhance their security options. Any security systems cannot eliminate security breaches completely however a plan can be in place to secure the systems and to monitor breaches in hopes of minimizing the risk of attacks. In addition, companies can adopt a comprehensive information security program in minimizing security breaches. Security is an ongoing process and such comprehensive program could be accomplished through the defense in depth model. Security devices will be implemented on all domains: at the physical layer, on the network layer, on the application and on the protocol layer. In addition, businesses can implement new blade server security solutions, which allow being without a job and evident failure. Moreover, security can include video surveillance also. Cyberspace is a place populated by humans, or perhaps more correctly, by human minds, since it is our intellects that reside and meet one another there. It should come as no surprise that many of the problems of the world carry over into this new territory. Crime is one of them. Internet is growing so quickly that it is impossible to know at any given moment the actual number of computers connected to it. It is even less possible to determine the number of people with access to it. The Internet use is clearly growing very, very quickly, and so are computer crime and the need to control it. Some cyberspace crimes, such as unauthorized access to a computer, are new and specific to the online world. Others, such as fraud or theft of valuables, are familiar from the real world. In either case, the unclear often anonymous nature of activity in cyberspace creates problems in enforcing laws. Evidence, of course, is the foundation for identifying, catching, and prosecuting criminals. In today's society our most valuable product is not grain, steel or even technology; it is information. Because of computer networks, just about everyone can now access an amazing range of information. The Internet is international, even though 80 percent of the Internet use occurs in the United States, and an overwhelming amount of information on every subject imaginable is available for free. Because so many people now have access, computer crimes have become more frequent. Everyone with a computer and a modem can commit a computer crime if so inclined. Anyone can become a "white collar" computer criminal. When the term "white collar" crime came into wide spread use several decades ago, it was thought that certain crimes were committed by persons whom no one would normally suspect of criminal behavior: professional, "white collar" workers. In the late 1990's, however, the term "white collar" is somewhat inaccurate. The playing field has been leveled by the widespread use of computers. Now "white collar crime" tends to mean simply "non violent crime" or "economic crime." As technology becomes more and more accessible to a greater extent of people, it also becomes a potential tool for increasing numbers of criminals Reference Page This website was found on December 12, 2009 law.udayton.edu/cybercrimes This website was found on December 12, 2009 www.cybercitizenship.org/crime/crime.html This website was found on December 12, 2009 www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/cyberhome.htm