1.2.4 COMPUTER CRIMES

1.2.4.1 Explain the need for Cyber Law.

Cyber Law is needed as in the recent years, many concerns and issues were raised on the integrity and security of information, legal status of online transactions, privacy and confidentiality of information, intellectual property rights and security of government data placed on the Internet.

Cyber Law is needed as in the recent years, many concerns and issues were raised on the integrity and security of information, legal status of online transactions, privacy and confidentiality of information, intellectual property rights and security of government data placed on the Internet.


1.2.4.2 Explain briefly the computer crimes below:

Fraud:

Computer fraud is defined as having an intention to take advantage over or causing loss to other people, mainly on monetary basis through the use of computers. Computer fraud includes e-mail hoaxes, programme fraud, investment schemes, sales promotions and claims of expertise on certain fields.

Students need to be aware of other computer frauds such as health frauds, scams and hacking. Students will also most likely get false information while researching information on the Internet.

Copyright Infringement:

Copyright infringement is defined as a violation of the rights secured by a copyright. It involves illegal copy or reproduction of copyrights material by the black market group. The open commercial sale of pirated item is also illegal. With the current technology, the most perfect copy of the original copy can be downloaded from the internet.

Theft:

Computer theft is defined as the unauthorised use of another person’s property with the intention to deny the owner the rightful possession of that property or its use. Examples of computer theft include: • transfer of payments to the wrong accounts tap into data transmission lines on database at no cost divert goods to the wrong destination

Attacks:

Computer attack may be defined as any activities taken to disrupt the equipment of computer systems, change processing control or corrupt stored data.

Computer attack can be in the forms of: physical attack that disrupt the computer facility or its transmission lines. an electronic attack that uses the power of electromagnetic energy to overload computer circuitry. a computer network attack that uses a malicious code to exploit a weakness in software, or in the computer security practices of a computer user.