Cybercrime And Internet Hacking And Its Effect On The Security Of The Internet

In the early days of computing, a hacker was primarily referred to as a computer guru, someone who is extremely technical with a high expertise in computer also known as “Expert Programmers”. Nevertheless, as technology is advancing at a face pace, hacking has adopted a completely different definition. The modern definition is someone who access a computer system primarily to steal or destroy information. Hacking has caused major harm in the realm of technology. Over the years, hackers have become much more lethal in their craft. They manage to break into complex information systems from entities such as banks, government agencies, and private businesses. Furthermore, they often manipulate their victims through social engineering in order to obtain financial benefits. Hackers hold different label such as: black hat hacker and white hat hacker in which all have their own motives.

If there is nothing done about cyber hacking, money, and important resources will be stolen from innocent people trying to live a successful life. “Cyber-crime units exist within local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) plays a critical role investigating crimes committed through the Internet” (Dingwell).

At the beginning of the semester, my policy was seeking to stop the repeal of Net Neutrality laws, in other words, stop government from allowing big telecom businesses from giving network speed priority to services they provide or approve of while in effect slowing down competing services. While I think net neutrality is extremely important, the current administration wants to remove the laws put into place in 2015, not strengthen them so ultimately I thought it would be better to look somewhere where not as much legislation has been put into place, and thus I decided to focus my efforts on data breach disclosure and reporting. For the last 15 years, cybercrime has grown dramatically with the continued advancements in technology and is now

Almost 90 percent of our society now depends on complex computer based system. With the increasingly use of computer and explosive growth of the Internet has brought many good things: electronic commerce, online banking, e-mail, video conferencing etc. The improvement of systems security to prevent criminal hacker has become an important concern to society. There are many ways to protect those information systems; it seems that the Ethical Hacking is a better way. Therefore, whether to teach or not teach the "Ethical Hacking" as a course in Tertiary education has become an interesting argument. In this article will analysis the ethical, legal, and ethical implications of this issue.

Hackers have caused the government billions of dollars in damage over time and leaking tens of thousands of sensitive documents, most for sport. Although not all hackers are out there to cause damage; the Hacktavist group Anonymous is a group that strives to protect the users of the Internet. When many people think of hackers they automatically think they are doing it for nefarious reasons, they are unaware that most hackers actually help protect and improve the everyday life we have through the internet by not only strengthening the sites we use everyday, but also taking down known black hat sites and even protecting civil right by allowing us to see the vital information withheld from us by the government.

For one thing crime is a common thing in our society that is known to everyone all around the world. Crimes refers to any violation of law or the commission of an act forbidden by law. Crime is something that can be caused by ones surroundings and has a negative impact towards others. Its development come from ones decision and the way they think, some have no remorse towards the actions they cause and some do. With technology being a common thing for everyone it makes things a lot easier for criminals to find ways to wreak havoc. The fact that no one can trace who was the hacker, that is if they know what they are ding, can make it difficult for the proper authority to capture these criminals. I believe that this will be a great problem in the near future as Ian Bremmer, a Political Scientist and specializing on global risks, said “[that the] federal government suffered a staggering 61,000 cyber-security breaches last year alone” (par.2).

Externally, hackers gather information for their own personal gain and to pose a great threat from outside of the business or person’s home because they can find access into the system a lot easier with new advanced technology. Over time, computer hacking has grown into something that is essentially a worldwide problem in countries like North Korea, Russia, the United States, and China that is. Overall, some of these countries are trying to eliminate and capture hackers and produce a stronger, more secure-based program for all of the computer platforms. By taking these hackers off the market it can control the large amount of hackers that are roaming around the internet looking for an open system to invade and get information from. In other words, people throughout the world can claim that hackers that hack people and businesses are doing the world justice by exploiting what they are hiding from the public. That’s false. The fact is, that people and businesses do it so they can have a form of privacy outside of just printing and storing some documents that could end up getting lost.

“We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon…but we can do this with their cars, homes, bars, brothels and everything else in their possession. It won’t be difficult; we all know who they are and where they are located.” Quoted from an Anonymous member. (Schiller, A.6.) Computer hacking began in the 1950s with an individual looking out for his own personal gains; like free phone calls for instance. The perception of hackers ever since has become very negative. Hacking has evolved over time, with many modern hackers following their own set of values that they believe are, arguably positive motives.

Computer hacking generates a lot of controversy these days. Hacking involves the use of computer skills to penetrate a network or a computer mostly to obtain protected and sensitive information. Computer hackers are generally of two types - white hat hackers and black hat hackers. White hat hackers use their computer skills for constructive purposes while black hat hackers use their skills for nefarious activities. To prosecute black hat hackers, different countries have put in place special IT law provisions.

Cybercrime is a crime that is done using the internet (Burton, 2007). Cybercrime is growing as the internet has grown in popularity. We now use the internet to conduct business, to do banking, for our healthcare, and to communicate with our friends and family. The internet holds an amazing amount of information on people and businesses. The internet gives those who want to use this information for illegal purposes, a tool to access unlimited information. As the growth of the internet has exploded, so has cybercrime. Understanding how these crimes are committed, and how to protect information on the internet is vital.

The ethical issues surrounding hacking, stem from several sources mainly dealing with order and control, and information ownership. What is difficult to decipher from all the media hoopla surrounding the terms, "hacker" and "hacking" is both the simultaneous sensationalism and the condemnation of said activities. Of course just recently, even a movie was made and was appropriately called Hackers. The term and all that it implies has truly entered our popular consciousness when Hollywood has made a box office movie on it. As the advancement of computer technologies and systems of information become increasingly more and more complex in today's fast paced modern world and said technologies become an integral

In accordance with many decades of cyber evolution, a cybercrime is shown in different ranges of crimes, which depend on the spread of technology and law. From the introduction of computer in the 1960s to the rise of personal computer in 1980s, cybercrime began to appear. The crimes can vary from piracy of software to patent-related crimes. This caused a surge in the introduction of relevant legislation in many countries and international organizations involved. In late 1990s, when Internet and transnational crimes were born, the international community cooperated in many instances such as the passing of the UN General Assembly Resolution 45/121 in 1990 and the manual for the prevention and control of computer-related crimes issued in 1994. Despite all the

I believe that cybercrime is an important and relevant subject in today’s modern society due to the increasing occurring. A topic that has particularly fascinated me is cybercrime and it evolvement among the youth in Ghana. As the youngest among a family of seven and the only male, growing up comes huge responsibilities in an African society. Separation of my parents in their early stage of marriage had a tone on all the children, which brought a delay in our academic life’s because of financial difficulties. Due to my parent’s separation my sisters could not further their education all of them got married early because of serious financial difficulties. I was adopted by a family in church and have been working all around to support myself in all my activities and my family this has been very challenging but am not discouraged. I am currently 29 years of age, I completed my bachelor’s degree in 2007 at the university of Ghana legon. I graduated with a second class upper honors in Psychology and sociology.

The Internet is a connection of computers across the world through a network. Its origin dates back to the 1960s when the U.S Military used it for research, but it became more available to the public from the late 1980s. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 and browsers began appearing in the early 1990s. Over the last 24 years, the Internet has enabled people to shop, play, do research, communicate and conduct business online. It has also become cheaper and faster in performing different tasks. As much as the Internet has done immeasurable good to society, it has also dominated people’s lives and brought with it an array of cybercrimes. According to Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way we Think,

Even though the Internet is over 30 years old and the World Wide Web is over 10 years old, our society is just beginning to address the ethical issues and dilemmas raised by these technological advances. It 's difficult to measure one person 's ethics against another person 's desire to make money or cause chaos that 's made much easier by the Internet. The U.S. government is just beginning to pass laws against cybercrimes but it 's difficult to stay one step ahead of the cybercriminals.