ABSTRACT-
Cybercrime
is becoming ever more serious. Cybercrime refers to any crime that involves a
computer and a network, where the computers may or may not have played an
instrumental part in the commission of a crime. Net crime refers, more
precisely, to criminal exploitation of the Internet. Issues surrounding this
type of crime have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking,
computer vandalism,
software piracy, cyber terrorism,
net extortion. Computer security is a branch of
computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and
networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information
and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the
information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users. Cybercrime falls into three categories: (1) The computer as a target
(2) The computer as a weapon and (3) The
computer as an accessory. . Cybercrime would be impossible without the
Internet. Most American businesses maintain WWW sites and over half of them
conduct electronic commerce on the Internet. The rise in popularity of the
Internet for both private persons and businesses has resulted in a
corresponding rise in the number of Internet-related crimes.
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