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 fraudulentsolicitations 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 way 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
*trying to trick someone to gain advantage
*refers to any type of fraud scheme to present fraudulentsolicitations 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 way 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
