Cybercrime or computer crimes refer to those crimes that involve a computer in addition to a network or internet connection. In most cases, a computer can be used in committing cybercrimes and at the same time can be potential targets on the other end. In essence, cybercrime refers to felonious use of the internet. Matters pertaining this type of crime have become notorious, principally those that involve hacking of personal and institutional websites, copyright contravention, identity larceny, child pornography, as well as harassment. There are also numerous issues of when personal information is interrupted, legally or illegally.
Telstra accused of web stalking The severity of web stalking is a serious problem for society because of the breach of human rights. According to the technology ethics professor Lamber Royakkers, “Stalking is a form of mental assault, in which the perpetrator repeatedly, unwantedly, and disruptively breaks into the life-world of the victim, with motives that are directly or indirectly traceable to the affective sphere”. This essay will discuss the case study where Telstra is accused of web stalking, analyses by the three ways of the ethical point of view which are: the Doing Ethics Technique, the ACS Code of Ethics and by the Classical Ethical Theories, to identify the ethical issues where they failed. A few months ago, the chief scientist of the internet registry Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre accused Telstra for stalking millions of Next G Smartphone users by sending the websites they visited to a Netsweeper in Canada. He said, the Telco has broken the law by doing this for a new web filtering product.
To add, there are several types of Hurricane Katrina Scams that are in effect. The three types of scams are the most prevalent and the most serious. First, is Phishing scams, as mentioned before many fraudulent websites have already been set up pretending to be legitimate Hurricane Katrina relief organizations. Also, sites of this sort ask people for donations, but in fact steal financial information and may be used for identity theft as well, of course the funs goes in the pockets of the scammers instead of the people. Next, is Viruses and Trojan horses, spam is sent that includes photos of disaster areas or individual survivors, and these attachments contain computer viruses.
Experts have concluded that cyber-bullying can cause damage that is more psychological to people than the ordinary type of bullying, due to the incoming text messages and the feeling of being unable to escape from the online world. Cyber-bullying consists of hate emails, humiliating images threatened to be put up online for the whole world to see and a numerous amount of threatening text messages. Co-ordinator Sue Steel of the Anti-Bullying Alliance said that it infiltrates the home, taking away children’s safe spaces, and by taking away children’s safe spaces, it can have real life consequences for the younger generation. An incident back in 2009 highlighted the consequences of cyber-bullying, when, the 15-year-old girl, Holly Grogan jumped from a road bridge after a torrent of abuse on her Facebook page. According to Dr. Karen Douglas, the online world can be a very powerful tool to get the message out.
Summary In the article “Perceptions of adolescent bullying: Attributions of blame and responsibilities in cases of cyber bulling” written by Morrow and Downey (2013) it explains what cyber bullying is and how it affects our society. It goes on to explain the audiences that is targeted and how it is affected adolescents. Bullying is global problem. Later in my article I will explain how internet base, mobile phones and tablets based bulling may be largely contributing to youth suicide along with complex legal problems. Cyber bulling has been defined as intention aggression using an electronic medium and as the use of information and communication technologies to intentionally harm others (2013)” defines Morrow.
Business throughout the world utilized computers and the internet for their daily operation. Hackers Although computers and access to the internet are used daily to accomplish personal tasks and or for business operations, hackers use the technology for wrong doing. Max Ray Butler worked for the federal government as a computer consultant, but later turned into a computer criminal. He hacked into carder forum web sites where he stole credit card number, bought, sold and forced members to conduct their business through his own website, cardersmarket.com (Computerworld.com, 2010, para 5). He was charged federally and sentenced in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card information (Computerworld.com, 2010, para 1).
Retrieved from EBSCOhost. The author of Analyzing Failures discusses the rising numbers of failed audits and the evaluations of why the numbers of audits failing are increasing. He also explores the responsibilities of those who are involved in the failed audits have. Another area that the author focuses in on is the employee involvement in collusion as being part of the reason audits are failing. This source is relative to my auditing collusion research because it discusses audits that are failing due to collusion and many other facets of fraud in the work place.
Chapter 1 Introduction and Statement of the Problem Introduction Phishing is the term used to describe massive e-mails that trick recipients into revealing their personal or company confidential information, such as social security and financial account numbers, account passwords and other identity or security information. These e-mails request the user’s personal information as a client of a legitimate entity with a link to a website that looks like the legitimate entity’s website or with a form contained in the body of the e-mail. The aim of phishing is to steal a user’s identity in order to make fraudulent transactions as if the Phishers were the user .In a typical phishing attempt, you will receive an authentic-looking email message that
Cyberbullying can be even more vicious than bullying since cyberbullying can occur repeatedly in front of a massive online audience, with the cyberbully’s identity unknown, while the victim feels helpless because the attacks can come from several different online sources day in and day out. Why do people cyberbully others? People who cyberbully others are often driven by feelings of anger, revenge, and frustration. In many cases, cyberbullies were once victims of bullying who weren’t guided in the proper direction. However, the power-hungry are the most nefarious; they cyberbully with the pure intent of tormenting others or bolstering their ego.
When American online launched in the early and mid-1990’s and surfing the web became popular, cyber bullying was then born. Cyber bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass or target another person. It also underestimates self-esteem and can cause teenagers and young adults increasingly more and more stress as the use of online social networks climbs upward at an alarming rate. Severe cyber bullying can leave victims at greater risk for anxiety, depression and other related disorders. Certain types of cyber bullying also can violate school codes or even anti-discrimination or sexual harassment laws.