SSI 3013
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE
TITLE: WHAT IS CYBER CRIME?
Crime is a common word that we always heard in this globalization era. Crimes refer to
any violation of law or the commission of an act forbidden by law. Crime and criminality
have been associated with man since long time ago. There are different strategies practices
by different countries to contend with crime. It is depending on their extent and nature. It
can be concluded that a nation with high index of crime cases cannot grow or develop
well. This is because crime is the direct opposite of development. It can contribute to
negative impact in term of social and economic development.
Cyber crime is a new type of crime that occurs in this Science and Technology years.
There are a lot of definitions for cyber crime. According to Wikipidia.com cyber crime
also known as computer crime that refers to any crime that involves acomputerand
anetwork. Cyber crime is defined as crimes committed on the internet using the computer
as either a tool or a targeted victim. Besides that cyber crime can be defined as crimes
committed on the internet using the computer as either a tool or a targeted victim (Joseph
A E, 2006). Computer can be considers as a tool in cyber crime when the individual is the
main target of cyber crime. But computer can be considers as target when the crime is
directed to the computer. In addition, cyber crime also includes traditional crimes that been
conducted with the access of Internet. For example hate crimes, telemarketing Internet
fraud, identity theft, and credit card account thefts. In simple word, cybercrime can be
defined as any violence action that been conducted by using computer or other devices
with the access of internet. This action can give harmful effects to other.
Report made by authorities showed that our country involved in 2,123 of cyber crime cases
during 2008 which is more than 100 per cent increase compared with 2007, but that rate
was an incident and may not correlate with cyber crimes rates. Cyber Security Malaysia
said, the number is not from the rate of cyber crimes analysis but only from the complaint
they received. Furthermore, they said, they cannot analyze the actual statistic because
police, Bank Negara, Securities Commission and Malaysian Communications and
Multimedia Commission (MCMC) have their own statistics and they have not been able to
collate these statistics to see the clearer image about cyber crimes.
