Essays on Cyber Crime

Introduction

With the ongoing process of internationalization, the inter-connectedness between countries significantly improved and it persuaded regulators worldwide to think about criminal justice on a global perspective. Though different countries follow different types of criminal justice systems, they all have identified the need of enhanced co-operation for establishing law and order in their territory. Fast advancements in the technological landscape assisted nations worldwide to take collaborative efforts to promote crime management and prevention. However, growing cyber crimes raise new threats to criminal justice systems worldwide because criminals have always been one step ahead of law enforcement agencies in terms of ...

The increase in development of the Internet and computer technology in the past few years has lead to the intensification in new types of crime crimes and computer forensics throughout the world. Cyber crime is considered as an issue for the IT industry. The governments and cyber firms have struggled to fight against the act of illegal crimes in the world of Internet. Although, the majority of individuals would never admit doing this crime, just based on numerical facts a large percentage of today’s population have. In the modern world, a lot of people use online social networking ...

With the advent of computer use by all and sundry, criminal minded people have also ventured into what is termed as cyber crime, which has as many ramifications as there are categories of crime. It has therefore become imperative for the government and law enforcement agencies to put up stringent measures against such criminals. The main categories of crimes, perpetrated through computers are stealing computer hardware or software, manipulating data through computers, telecommunications and internal computer crimes. When viruses are implanted into other people’s computers in a deliberate attempt at being malicious against such people this constitutes internal ...

Product Development is the design of new products, or new features in old products that is meant to offer better benefits to the target users (Ulrich and Eppinger, 2012). Product Development goes further to involve the marketing of the created product. Several factors determine the success of Product Development. Broadly categorized, such factors include type of product in question, state of the target market and economy, the characteristics of the target customers among other factors within and beyond the company. All these factors constitute part of the risks faced by company involved in product development (Towey, 2013). Factors that ...

Information technology is an essential tool for the development of an organization. Technology assists companies in their operation. The use of technology is especially crucial in the management of global organizations. The technological advances assist these organizations to avoid crimes and errors committed through technology. Mars Inc. is one of the companies that have embraced technology in their operations. This paper is set to research on Mars Inc. and its operations in the global market. Additionally, it analyzes the technological advancements employed by the organization in its operations.

The History of Mars Inc

Mars Inc. denotes a private company owned by the family of ...

Crimes against Persons

Crimes against persons are those criminal conducts punishable under penal law and which are mainly committed against individuals as the victims (Gardner & Anderson, 2014, p.25). In such categories of crimes, the perpetrator or offender normally has the intention to cause the victim actual grievous bodily injury and harm. Examples of crimes under this category include rape, assault and murder.

Crimes against Property

These are a category of crimes in which the offender intends to take another person’s property with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of the property without necessarily intending to use force against them. Examples of these crimes ...

Mitigation of cyber attacks

Introduction The development of internet technology has both advantages and limitations on global development. The major drawback associated with advancement in internet technology is the cyber crime, which is globally on a rise (Weimann, 2006). Cyber terrorism poses serious threats to the security of both private companies and government institutions. Cyber attacks involve unauthorized access to critical information as well as the infrastructure of business organizations and public institutions (Weimann, 2006). The resultant effects of cyber attacks are numerous, and they make both private and public entities more vulnerable to collapse (Osipenko, 2004, p 46). Thus, these institutions adopt ...

There four major categories of digital computer crimes. These are classified as crimes against the individual, crimes against the property of an individual, crime against the society and crimes against the government (Dalla and Geeta, 2013). Typically, cyber crimes consist of hacking and gaining illegal access to information from another person’s system. Digital crime against the individual is when a person is targeted by another person or persons and their personal data s approached by hacking or gaining access to email and password information. Commonly, these crimes consist of illegal activities such as drug trafficking that can target ...

The History and importance of cyber security

Introduction The ubiquity of the internet has enhanced modern life. It has enabled rapid and easy access to information at a scale never witnessed before in human history. Communications and business transactions can also get done over the internet by parties separated by huge geographical distances. This convenience eliminates the need for travelling long distances to so that one can undertake such tasks. Cybercrime can get defined as any illegal act involving usage of digital information systems. The process frequently involves a criminal motive to damage the reputation or cause harm, both physical and mental to the victim. This ...

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Summary

Cyber laws are established to ensure safe, fair and responsible use of the internet by all the users whether they are common internet using citizens or law enforcement agencies. These laws have been designed and have been evolving ever since because of the ever expanding canvas of the ethical considerations involved in the use of the internet. The law is confined to logic and debate, and anything that has not been debated on or legislated cannot be made a law and is hence the responsibility of the user as their ethical and moral duty. The common internet ...