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    27-05-24

    FORM 2 6
    LESSON NOTES
    COMPUTER CRIME
     Computer crime is an act performed by knowledgeable computer user, sometimes
    referred to as a hacker that illegally browses or steal’s a company’s or individuals
    private information.
     Computer crime can also referred to as cyber-crime, e-crime, electronic crime or
    electronic crime.
    EXAMPLES OF COMPUTER CRIME
     Below is a listing of different computer crime today:
     Child pornography - Making or disturbing child pornography.
     Cracking - breaking or deciphering codes that are being used to protect data.
     Cyber terrorism- Hacking, treats and blackmailing towards a business or a
    person.
     Cyberbullying or cyberstalking- Harassing others online.
     Creating malware – Writing, creating or disturbing malware (e.g viruses and
    spyware.)
     Denial of service – Overloading a system with so many requests such that it
    cannot serve the normal requests.
     Espionage – spying on a person or business.
     Fraud – Manipulating data, e.g changing banking records to transfer money to
    an account.
     Harvesting – Collect account or other related information on other people.
     Identity theft – pretending to be someone you are not.
     Intellectual property theft – Stealing practical or conceptual information
    developed by another person or company.
     Phishing – Deceiving individuals to gain private or personal information
    about that person.
     Salami slicing - Stealing tiny amounts of money from each transaction.
     Scam – tricking people into believing something that is not true.
     Spamming – Distributed unsolicited e-mail to dozens of different addresses.
     Spoofing – Deceiving a system into thinking you are someone really are not.
     Unauthorised access – Gaining access to systems you have no permission to
    access.
     Wiretapping – Connecting a device to a phone line to listen to conversations.
     Hacking – it is an illegal practice by which a hacker breaches for computers
    security system of someone for personal interest.
     Unwarranted mass- surveillance-Mass surveillance means surveillance of a
    substantial fraction of a group of people by the authority especially for the
    security purpose, but if someone does it for personal interest, it is considered
    by cybercrime.
    Possible Criminals for cyber crime
     Disgruntled employees
     Business Rival
     Ex-lovers
     Teenagers.
     Professional Hackers
     Drug Traffickers

    Cyber crime Victims


     Gullible
     Desperados and greedy people
     Unskilled and Inexperienced people
     Careless talk people
     Unlucky people

    Some of the cyber crime tools


    1. Wi-Fi Tracking
     Your own computer could provide a means of tracking you! Most laptops are
    wireless- fidelity (wi-fi) enable. Anyone knowing your computer name (e.g
    Zidan’s laptop) can easily listen to your broadcast signal within a few hundred
    metres to ascertain your whereabouts.

    2. Pocket Sniffers
     Apart from locating you via your computer, someone with a program like a
    pocket sniffer can actually grab the data type and read it (if it is unencrypted).
    Remember data is sent in packets. They can listen to for key words such as
    login and passwords to gain access to information.

    3. Bluetooth Locating
     Bluetooth broadcasts a stronger signal than Wi-Fi covering greater distances.
    Whole pages of information can be snapped up (using photographing
    techniques) and transferred onto a computer by Bluetooth.

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