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People commit crimes on their and other people's computers every day. You can do alot of damage with very little knowledge. Most unauthurized computer use is done in the comfort of the criminals home's. Hackers can get anyone's information if they really wanted to. The only way to protect yourself is to be cautious. Once they are in your computer the only way to get rid of them is to get rid of your computer and subscribe to a different server, or create a different username and password. |
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Classifications of Crimes |
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Their are three main types of criminal activity with computers:
1. Unauthorized use
2. Creating or releasing a virus
3. Harassment and stalking in cyberspace
Computers are just a high-tech tool criminals use to commit normal crimes. |
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Forms of Unauthorized computer use:
1. Computer voyeur: The criminal reads (or copies) confidential or proprietary information, but data is neither deleted nor changed.
2. Changing data. For example, change a grade on a school transcript, add "money" to a checking account, etc. Unauthorized changing of data is generally a fraudulent act.
3.Deleting data. Deleting entire files could be an act of vandalism or sabotage.
4.Denying service to authorized users. On a modern time-sharing computer, any user takes some time and disk space, which is then not available to other users. |
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A virus is a program that "infects" a persons computer. The virus could delete, copy, and change certain files. The virus does what the programmer programmed it to do. Sometimes they only effect unimportant files, but most effect the main file on your computer, such as: operating systems, scripts, and/or floppy disk.
A worm copies itself, and acts alot like cancer, except for your computer. Worms take up room that would normally be used to save files or run programs. Because they take up room, your computer will continually run slower and slower. Much like an accident in a big city jams up traffic, a worm jams up procedures in your computer.
A Trojan Horse on the outside looks harmless, but has attached to it programs, and procedures that harm the user unlucky enough to get it. A Trojan horse does not replicate. Trojan Horses can alow hackers to control a users computer from a remote location.
A Logic Bomb "detinates" when a user performs a certain trigger action. When it "detinates" the bomb can release a virus, or crash a computer.
A Time Bomb is the same as a logic bomb, except it goes off when a computers clock hits a given date or time. |
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A harasser causes a victim emotional distress, with no legitimate reason for doing so. Harassment came be something like continually sending someone an e-mail, when the someone has specified that they don't want to have any contact with the sender anymore.
Or harassment could be sending hate mail, sexual graphics or pictures, rasist remamrks; anything that makes the victim uncomfortable or scared.
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Tips for Protecting Yourself |
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Ways to protect yourself:
1. A Password
2. Anti-Virus Software
3. Firewall
4. Back-ups
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Computer crimes have made alot of people doubt the usefulness of the internet. Programs have been created to teach users not to give out personal information. Computer criminals can find out who you are and lure you into doing things that you don't want to do or shouldn't do, by just talking to you over MSN. Thanks to hackers, there is a whole new section of computer programs called firewalls. You can pay someone to install a firewall in your computer that will stop any unwanted material from ruining it.
People are getting more and more frustrated with their computer. They are getting more careful and usually re-think everything they download, send, type and look at on it. |
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