Discuss The Various Forms Of Cybercrime

Pages12 Sources6 Njeru M. Erastus College Essay 22nd February, 2012 Cybercrime The term cyberspace is used to refer to the electronic medium of computer networks which is mainly the internet. Cybercrime can be defined as the illegal activities targeting to exploit vulnerabilities existing in computer programs, the internet and electronic information systems. It aims at illicitly gaining access and attacking information databases, and disrupting services on computers owned by the government, business organizations and domestic consumers. Cybercrime is therefore crime perpetrated on cyberspace. Cybercrime continues to grow at an increasing rate annually with no sign of slowing down with new advanced variants of financial malware and increasing level of cyber-attacks sophistication witnessed globally. Cybercrime in the Last Decade and Now Ever since the Personal Computer (PC) became a common place gadget in offices and homes, malicious software (malware) applications have continued to be developed with the aim of causing havoc and disruption to business and government operation and to steal information. The growth of the internet since the late 1990s has enabled malware to be easily transferable to multiple computers thereby increasing incidences of computer crime annually. Across the globe, there are now more than two billion internet users and