Protect Yourself from Internet Crime
Internet crime is very prevalent in our society of computers and electronics. Young children are being stalked through email and chat programs, users of all age are being harassed, young children are being involved with pornography in ways they never should be, and copyrights are being broken by media download programs such as the early Napster. With an increasing number of these crimes being committed we, as Internet users need to crack down on these cyber criminals. There are plenty of ways to avoid these crimes, most involving common sense and a little caution. However, sometimes it takes someone to teach or remind you of these practical ways to avoid Internet criminals. In this short paper you will be warned of the different types of Internet crime, shown a real life example that could happen to anyone, and also be taught some ways to prevent these crimes from happening to you.
Among the many types of Internet crime, some are more common and serious than others. Those are some of the ones that will be exhibited in this paper. Crimes such as: computer intrusion, password trafficking, copyright piracy, data transfer theft, misuse of computer time, computer output theft, desktop forgery, wrongful programming, child pornography, Internet fraud and harassment.
Computer intrusion is "an unauthorised access by any person using a computer and any other communications device to break computer security or circumvent it to enter into a computer system (www.mlj.com)." In a more common lingo this is where someone who does not have permission to access your personal files, emails, etc. accesses them for some sort of personal gain.
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...s a good place to start before getting too involved with the Internet. Any user can be safe on the Internet if they use their common sense and remain cautious. For more information on these types of crime, other crimes, and more prevention methods, look up the websites cited on the Works Cited page.
Works Cited
AVSANDS. "Types of Computer Crimes." http://www.avsands.com/Computers/typescomputerc_sbf_av.htm. 2001 by PageWise, Inc.
Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. "How to Report Internet Related Crime." http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm. December 6, 2002.
MLJ. "Internet Crimes." http://www.mlj.com.my/articles/beldeu2.htm. Beldeu Singh, Annette John.
TechTV CyberCrime. "Kenya Kidnapping." http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/internetfraud/story/0,23008,3396768,00.html. Chris Anderson. September 16, 2002.
First, social-work and mental-health experts have reached a consensus during the last decade that greater openness offers an array of benefits for adoptees—from ongoing information about family medical issues to fulfillment of their innate desire to know about their genetic histories—even if the expanded relationships prove difficult or uncomfortable for some of the participants (Verbrugge). An open adoption is when the natural mother and the adoptive family know the identity of each other and could obtain background or medical history from the biological parent. In an open adoption the parental rights of biological parents are terminated, as it is in a closed adoption, but an open adoptio...
Sealed records for adoptees should be illegal due to the emotional, medical and the history of an adoptee. How is sealing a person’s life away upon any kinds of adoptions and never allowing them to know who they are, where they came from, and their medical background be close to right? How can being for sealed records ever help the ones who really need the support?
Why are adoption records sealed? What would happen if adoption records were opened? In the last 160 years, adoptions in the United States transitioned from informal placements to sealed-record contracts. When Massachusetts enacted the first adoption law in 1851 there was no legal precedent and as adoption law developed, states began sealing adoption birth records. Later in the 1960s and 70s, birth control pills, legalized abortion, and single parent families reduced unplanned pregnancies, increased single parent households, and made illegitimate an obsolete label. As baby-boom adoptees matured, they called for open birth records and were met lawmaker and social worker fears of lower adoption rates, higher abortion rates, and loss of anonymity. Despite these fears and reservations, research shows that open records may not cause privacy loss, decrease adoptions, or increase abortions.
In todays fast pace world of technology many of us leave ourselves vulnerable to become victims of a cybercrime. With people using the internet to do everything from paying bills, personal banking, and on-line shopping their financial and personal information is available at the stroke of a key to a hacker. Often someone is unaware that they have been attacked and had their information stolen. The use of the internet has grown exorbitantly throughout the world. Nelson Online reported that as of December 31, 2014, there were 360,985,492 users of the internet throughout the world. (2015) With so many users in so many countries accessing the internet, prosecuting cybercrimes is nearly impossible.
...one on the topic, so going back to try and find almost every source I have ever read was a little daunting, but I found most of them.
During this time adoptions were done in a closed manner. Meaning that the information of the birth and adoptive parent(s)were kept strictly confidential by the agencies that facilitated the adoption. Birth parents would give non identifying information that would be given to the adoptive parents and later the adoptees if they wished, however nothing could easily allow the triad members to later locate each other without the assistance of the agency was released. The logic behind this was to protect the birth parents, more so the mother, usually from the societal shame of being unwed, giving her the freedom to put the past behind her and later have a family with legitimate children. Additionally, it gave adoptive family the reassurance that they would not have to have concerns of a birth parent resurfacing after many year causing upheaval in their lives, or that of the child they had raise, usually from birth. It is estimated that as of 1970 175,000 of these closed adoptions happened a year, well into the 1980’s. While conceptually this set up seemed ideal, it ignored the humanistic aspect of birth parents longing to know what came of their child, and it completely disregarded the adoptee rights to understand where they came from once they were able to understand the situation. Also it gave adoptive families no resources of understanding the nature of what may have affected their
National coordinator of National Adoptee Rights Day, founder of Voices of Adoption, and an adopted adult, Denise K. Castellucci argues that “adoption should never ask any human being to trade their…right to know the true facts of one’s own birth in return for a promise of a stable and loving home” (Ca...
The practice of adoption began over 4,000 years ago. All adoptions are arranged in 3 ways private, independent, and closed. Private adoptions are adoptions where you can place your child with anybody you choose with the courts approval. Independent adoptions are adoptions where a child’s placement is put arranged by a lawyer or doctor, in some cases the adoptive parents put in the expenses of the pregnancy and deliver of the couple their getting the child from. There are also black market groups that will illegally adopt your baby (with the birth mother’s permission) in some cases you will have nothing to do with your birth if and when the baby is handed over to the adopted parents. Closed adoption is where there is no information about either families, the birth parents or the adoptive parents, after the adopti...
We have grown accustomed to having the Internet at our fingertips no matter where we go. It is impressive that with less than 10 clicks we could talk, make a transaction or finish a business deal. As with anything, there are always ups and downs. The Internet is extremely useful and without it people and businesses would not be able to function properly; but along with those benefits comes a real danger, and that danger is Cybercrime. Cybercrime put simply is any crime committed on the Internet, whether it is downloading music illegally to cyber-terrorism. In today’s modern era, cyber crime is almost unavoidable, it is essential to prepare yourself and learn as much as you can in order to protect your assets. The Internet is a powerful tool that can be used for good or evil but is up to you to choose.
Computer crime is defined as, “Criminal activity directly related to the use of computers, specifically illegal trespass into the computer system or database of another, manipulation or theft of stored or on-line data, or sabotage of equipment and data.”(1). This includes both crimes using computers and crimes against computers.
There are different types of computer crimes that many people become victims of every day. Computer crime is any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target ("Computer Crime: Chapter 2: What Are the Crimes? ", n.d.) - " Crimes such as data diddling, pump and dump, social engineering and spoofing are computer crimes. Even though these crimes are difficult due to privacy issues, the new technology has made investigations and prosecutions well organized and effective.
Computers were once thought to be a great tool to use for everything from typing to communicating with relatives in other states. However, criminals are using computers to do all types of illegal crimes such as identity theft, hacking, prostitution and many others. The police must figure a way to curtail these crimes when they are committed. Cybercrimes can be committed from any city in the world. In order to fight cybercrimes, the police are going to need to discuss how the criminals were able to facilitate such crimes. It may be necessary to send police undercover into the organizations that operate the
Cybercrime is a global issue plaguing the world. The dictionary defines cybercrime as “crime conducted via the Internet or some other computer network”(Merriam-Webster). The definition remains very broad because the word “cyber” is defined as “relating to the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality.” Due to the growing number of people gaining access to the internet, rapid development of technology, and the globalization of the world, more of the world population is becoming susceptible to involvement in cybercrime – whether it be as a victim or a criminal. Cybercrime involves different levels of the world on both the victim and criminal side, from an individual citizen, to small groups, businesses, and the government, to the countries of the world.
In today’s society technology is used for everything. With the invention of computers and the internet this open doors to the cyber world. Today you can do almost anything without having to leave your home. The internet gives us the opportunity of shopping online, ordering food online, working from home and video chatting with friends and family across the world. Everyone has a computer and internet access in their homes. While the internet is really convenient it also opens doors for cybercrimes, loss of privacy and the need for computer security.
Cybercrime refers to all forms of crime conducted through a computer or a mobile device using computer networks. It is thus the use of a computer with the aim of intercepting and manipulating content, disrupting communication, stealing or generally destroying others’ information or hardware through a network. Although cybercrime is a worldwide problem and affects both small and big companies, small companies are affected more from the dangers of cybercrime. The rapid advancement in technology is causing tremendous problems to businesses in terms of more sophisticated cyber-attacks. This project is interesting and beneficial because it enlightens one on the dangers of cybercrime, thus preparing individuals to know how to prevent attacks while online, how to reduce the effects of a cyber-attack and how to prevent future