Internet crime

Internet crime

Internet crime is crime committed on the Internet, using the Internet and by means of the Internet.

Computer crime is a general term that embraces such crimes as phishing, credit card frauds, bank robbery, illegal downloading, industrial espionage, child pornography, kidnapping children contacted via chat rooms, harassment, cyber-bullying, scams, cyberterrorism, creation and/or distribution of viruses, spam, identity theft and so on. All such crimes are computer related and facilitated crimes.

According to security firm Symantec, Internet criminal activities have become a serious commercial activity with selling email addresses, details of bank accounts and credit cards through underworld auction sites on the rise. Some even use trusted websites such as MySpace and Facebook to do this. [cite news
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6998068.stm
title = Hi-tech crime 'is big business' ]

Statistics

The statistics that have been obtained and reported about demonstrate the seriousness of Internet crimes in the world. Just the "phishing" emails mentioned in a previous paragraph produce one billion dollars for their perpetrators (Dalton 1). In an FBI survey in early 2004, 90 percent of the 500 companies surveyed reported a security breach and 80 percent of those suffered a financial loss (Fisher 22). A national statistic in 2003 stated that four billion dollars in credit card fraud are lost each year. Only two percent of credit card transactions take place over the Internet but fifty percent of the four billion, mentioned before, are from the transaction online (Burden and Palmer 5). All these finding are just an illustration of the misuse of the Internet and a reason why Internet crime has to be slowed down.

ee also

*Digital safety
*Internet fraud
*Internet police

References

*Kit Burden and Creole Palmer. (2003). [http://journals.ohiolink.edu/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals Internet Crime: Cyber Crime-A New Breed of Criminal?] "Computer Law and Security Report". 19 (3): 222-227.
*Richard J. Dalton. (2005). "Newsday".
*Dennis Fisher. (2004). EWeek 21.
*Eric Metchik. (1997). [http://journals.ohiolink.edu/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals A Typology of Crime on the Internet] . "Security Journal" 9 (1-3): 27-31.Picture: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122242,00.asp


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