Computer Crime: The History Of Computer Hacker Crime

Hacker only has 50 years history, computer hacker crime is one of the mots dangerous crime threat at 21th century. Hacktivism is a new class of hacker has emerged, “the so-called hacktivist, who engages in hacking of computer networks and systems as a form of protest”(Hargrave,2012). Hacker crimes have use computer programming skill to make errors on your computer that control your computer to get information and change your computer system. Since in 1970s, computer hackers are called “phreaks”, which mean by phone hacker. Computer hacker is becoming form phone hacker. In the early 1970, Computer hacker is positive to the society, many of computer programmers were “began looking for ways to get the most out of the machines. “(Deivtt,2001) And then, they are created applications called hacks, which are “applications and allow more tasks to be completed in a shorter time.” (Deivtt,2001).In the early 1980.Hackers using computers and the internet for their own questionable gains. The first computer hacker crime is in the 1983.” six teenagers from

The crime usually involves illegally gaining access to one or more computer systems to steal information, take them offline or both, either for malicious purposes or financial gain.”(2012) cybercriminals are groups of people uses their computer technology to commit. Hacker is the one of cyber criminals,but cybercriminals are not all hackers. cybercriminal breaking into computer systems involves hacking, so a cybercriminal can be considered hacker. Hargave noted “I should point out that even the term black hat can be a little misleading. There is an important series of conventions called Black Hat that is attended by security experts and students – many of them white hat hackers – to learn about the latest trends and tools in the computer security