I chose the topic “Cybercrime as a Transnational Business” under the umbrella of Information Technology for my term paper because I find it easy. Since cybercrimes are very rampant in the present era, I want to know the possible effects of it in the society and as well as to the human life. Cyber crimes are now a fact of life in law enforcement. With the rapid explosion of the Internet, criminals now have the opportunity to make cyberspace their virtual crime playground. The Internet offers criminals anonymity, fingertip access to almost any information on their victims, not to mention a plethora of faceless prey they may never have been able to reach in the offline world. With the cyber world continuing its rapid growth and as we as a society continue to expose more of ourselves in cyberspace, it is important that we educate ourselves on what predators may lay in wait in the virtual world and what we can do to protect ourselves on a daily basis. A report has clearly defined the various categories and types of cybercrimes. Cybercrimes can be basically divided into 3 major categories.
First, cybercrimes against persons. Cybercrimes committed against persons include various crimes like transmission of child-pornography, harassment of any one with the use of a computer such as e-mail. The trafficking, distribution, posting, and dissemination of obscene material including pornography and indecent exposure, constitutes one of the most important cybercrimes known today. The potential harm of such a crime to humanity can hardly be amplified. This is one cybercrime which threatens to undermine the growth of the younger generation as also leave irreparable scars and injury on the younger generation, if not controlled.
And lastly, cybercrimes against government. This category of cybercrime is relate to crimes done against the Government. Cyberterrorism is one distinct kind of crime in this category. The growth of internet has shown that the medium of Cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the international governments as also to terrorize the citizens of a country. This crime manifests itself into terrorism when an individual "cracks" into a government or military maintained website.
Cracking is amongst the gravest cybercrimes known till date. It is a dreadful feeling to know that a stranger has broken into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and has tampered with precious confidential data and information. Coupled with this the actuality is that no computer system in the world is cracking proof. It is unanimously agreed that any and every system in the world can be cracked. The recent denial of service attacks seen over the popular commercial sites like E-bay, Yahoo, Amazon and others are a new category of cybercrimes which are slowly emerging as being extremely dangerous.
