Tuesday, July 6, 2010

CoMpUtEr CrIME

FIVE TYPES OF COMPUTER CRIMES AND EXAMPLES

#Computer crimes is a criminal act in which a computer is essential to commit the crime.


* Five examples of computer crimes are:
~Fraud

*trying to trick someone to gain advantage
*refers to any type of fraud scheme to present fraudulentsoli
citations to prospective victims,to conduct fraudulent transactions

~Copyright Infringement

*unauthorized use of copyrighted material
*violates the copyright owner's exclusive rights

~Theft

*hardware theft-the act of stealing computer equipment
*software theft-steals software media,intentionally erases program and illegally copies a program
*information theft-occurs when someone steals personal or confidential information

~Attack

*computer viruses
*worms
*trojan horses
*denial of service attacks
*spoofing

~Virus

*a piece of code that inserts itself into a host to propagate.
some of famous virus are:
#melissa
#tiny
#sircam
#tequila
*another w
ay is to load an infectead file into your computer from some kind of storage device:
*floppy disk
*memory stick
*CD-ROM
*DVD
*the most common way of getting a virus these days is to open an email attachment



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