Cybercrimes and the Prevention

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What is cybercrime? What methods are used to commit cybercrimes? Is the internet one of our utmost achievements or is it a device for criminals to commit crimes? Cybercrimes can be committed over the internet, the telephone, or a mobile network. Many government agencies, state agencies, businesses, schools, and other entities rely on the internet for day to day business practices. Then there are others who use the internet for individual use while others use the internet for criminal purposes. There are many different words for crime over the net, which include cybercrime, computer crime, e-crime, hi-tech crime and electronic crime. These words usually refer to criminal activity in which a computer or a network is the source, object, tool, or place of a crime (Computer crime); however, a computer is not necessarily always used for cybercrimes. There are many categories of computer crime and many of the criminal activities can be placed in more than one category. Computers are also used for more traditional crimes such as (Computer crime) fraud, blackmail, forgery, theft, and embezzlement in which the computer is used to assist the unlawful activity. For instance, a murder may not be classified as an e-crime, but a computer may have been used to help the offender plan the crime (What are Electronic Crimes?). Cyber crime is any computer related crime where any illegal, unethical, or unauthorized behavior transmits or automatically obtains the processing of data. Internet technologies are not the only ones who should be concerned with cyber crime. The other entities include mobile technologies, wireless technologies, cellular networks, telecom infrastructure, servers, telephones, and many others. They can be the goal of a crime or be used to recognize a crime. Computer crimes are crimes connected with digital technology while cyber crime is a form of
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