14-11-2012, 05:11 PM
CYBER CRIME
Introduction:
Most broadly, cyber crime consists of any crime committed using computers.
Such crimes divide into two groups:
Crimes that merely use computers;
Crimes that harm computers
Computer Virus
Portion of the program designed to copy itself into other codes or computer files.
Worms are like viruses which replicates on computer and consumes memory space of the HDDs and RAM.
Example of Virus are
‘I LOVE YOU’
‘I Love You. Kindly check the love letter coming from me.’
‘Trojan’ ( Worm / Virus )
‘Here is the document that you asked for. Don’t show it to any one else;
Cyberstalking
Psychologists say stalking is a way of hurting someone's mind with serious effects
It is done by Stalker.
A person who harass someone by using the internet is called Stalker.
Stalker uses the Internet to contact or follow that person.
Stalker makes fake account of victims.
They may send nasty messages to that person or spread lies about them to others.
Sometimes a stalker may go on to hurt that person's body by assaulting, raping or murdering that person.
Email-Spoofing
Spoofing means a hacker logs-in to a computer illegally using a different identity than his own.
He is able to do this by having previously obtained actual password.
He creates a new identity by fooling the computer into thinking he is the genuine system operator.
Hacker then takes control of the system.