Computer Crimes

2. WHAT IS COMPUTER CRIMES?
Computer crime is an unauthorized use of a computer for personal
gain, as in illegal transfer of funds or to alter the data or property
of others.

3. THE TOP FIVE
COMPUTER CRIMES
 Malware
 Identity theft
 Cyber stalking
 Child pornography
 Spam

4. MALWARE
Malware refers to viruses,
trojans,worms and other
software that gets onto
your computer without you
being aware it is there
without you even knowing.

5. IDENTIFTY THEFT
Someone gains access to your
personal information and uses for
there own benefit
Identity theft ranges from black-hat-
hacker, stealing your online
banking account log in and
password to getting access to your
social security number and using it
to pretend to be you

6. CYBER STALKING
 Cyber stalking is using the internet to
repeatedly harass another person
 The harassment could be sexual in nature
or it could have other motivations
including anger or out right hostility

7. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
 Child pornography is when a child is
being exploited in a sexual way
 Child pornography is an illegal money
making industry

8. SPAM
 Spam is known as junk email
or unsolicited bulk email
 If a user open spam email,
they are in jeopardy on linking
onto sites that hos malware
(virus)

9. STATISTICS ON COMPUTER CRIMES
YEARLY CYBER CRIME VICTIM COUNT
ESTIMATE:
VICTIMS PER YEAR 556 MILLION
Victims per day Over 1.5 Million
Victims per second 18
Identities exposed More than 232.4 Million
COMMON TYPES OF CYBER
ATTACKS:
ATTACKS %
Viruses, malware, worms 50%
Criminal insider 33%
Theft of data-bearing deices 28%
Phishing 22%