Ethical Issue

The internet has brought upon a new revolution of global interconnection where contacting someone on the other side of the world is just a click away, but with this international phenomenon comes an increased susceptibility with unfamiliar technology. Internet crime is compiled of all non-physical crime with the aid of a computer. Although broad in definition internet crimes are largely composed of acts such as cyber fraud, ‘phishing’ (username and password hacking), cyber stalking and hacking. Internet crime does not pose an overwhelming issue in society in terms of its

Cyber crimes, as defined by dictionary.com, are criminal activity or a crime that involves the internet, a computer system, or computer technology. Cyber Crimes may occur all over the globe, but the scene of the crime shares one common location, the internet. Law Enforcement has been tasked with bringing an end to this digital dilemma and they have started by going to war. The war on Cyber crimes is a term used to designate the efforts of Law Enforcement to go against these sly criminals. There are many different forms of these crimes, such as some come in forms of scams and others are ushered in by hackers. The shocking part is the statistics that come along with these crimes and the amount of money that

Over the past twenty years, the Internet’s role in our lives has grown to an everyday necessity. We rely on the Internet to communicate within the scope of our employment and social lives, to conduct our banking and bill paying, we even use it to track our personal property. There is hardly one area of our lives that we can not conduct over the Internet. While the Internet is a convenience that has made our lives easier, it has also opened the door in our lives to a vulnerability that is rapidly being exploited by cyber criminals. Cyber crimes are growing at an exponential rate in the United States and we, the consumers/end users are unaware of the liabilities a simple click on the wrong button can cause. This paper will

The creation go of the Internet has helped spawn new forms of criminals and crimes, and has always helped make older criminal schemes easier to execute, identity theft, child pornography, copyright violations, hacking and you could go on and on. In a 2003 survey conducted by the CSI with the participation of the San Francisco Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Computer Intrusion Squad, of the 530 respondents made up of U.S. corporations, government agencies, financial institutions, medical institutions and universities, 56% reported unauthorized use of their computer systems (2003 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey).

All over the world today, the crime rate has increased and so has its methods. Criminals are becoming more sophisticated when acting out crime. Furthermore, crimes do not just take place at a certain location anymore but from anywhere in the world. For example, cyber crime was unheard of even as far back as the early eighties because access to computer and the worldwide web was limited to only a few people who used it for research or to interact with a particular group now we hear of cases where people are being defrauded via the internet and this is becoming so rampant such that conducting business transaction over the internet can be scary, the

For an organization to safeguard its computer network it has to take computer security seriously and put it as one of its top priorities so as to ensure that vital services are available for it to operate. Furthermore, computer security requires the involvement of all the stakeholders through the sharing of information and collaborating in designing new ways of deterring attackers. Prosecution of offenders is a big challenge due to the nature of computer crime versus the set standard of evidence, as noted by McCusker (2007) ‘Contentions have appeared concerning whether such online crime can be classified into our general criminal justice framework, due to the shortfall in accessible examination materials which help or contradict either contention’.

The agencies employed by governments to police the web in order to protect the vulnerable have seen an increase in child pornography and online fraud. The speed at which information can be distributed and the number of people that can be reached attracts those that are intent on causing harm. The term “cybercrime” is becoming more widely used. The financial gains that can be made and the anonymity the internet can provide, make the virtual world of cyberspace a haven for criminals. Although the internet has huge benefits for information gathering and social networking, in the wrong hands it can cause harm to the vulnerable and criminals are able to vanish into the underground with the use of false identities that are hard to track online.

known just to the sender and the recipient (Olumide & Victor, 2010). Various cryptographic strategies have been created and some of them are still not broke. Digital Ethics and Cyber enactment Laws is another approach to cybercrime problem. Cyber morals and digital laws are likewise being defined to stop digital wrongdoings (Anderson, et al. 2012). It is an obligation of each person to take after digital morals and digital laws so that the expanding digital violations will lessen (Olumide & Victor, 2010). Securities programming like hostile to infections and against spy products ought to be introduced on all PCs, keeping in mind the end goal to stay secure from digital violations. Web access Providers ought to likewise give abnormal state of security at their servers with a specific end goal to keep their customers secure from a wide range of infections and pernicious projects (Salu, 2004).

Cyberlaw is a new phenomenon having emerged much after the onset of Internet. Internet grew in a completely unplanned and unregulated manner. Even the inventors of Internet could not have really anticipated the scope and far reaching consequences of cyberspace. The growth rate of cyberspace has been enormous. Internet is growing rapidly and with the population of Internet doubling roughly every 100 days, Cyberspace is becoming the new preferred environment of the world.With the spontaneous and almost phenomenal growth of cyberspace, new and ticklish issues relating to various legal aspects of cyberspace began cropping up. In response to the absolutely complex and newly emerging legal issues relating to

In today's Internet world, Internet security seems to be considered an outdated idea. Instead of making security a priority, technology companies see it as an added way, not as a security measure. This can be referred to now there are many unsound places in the construction of Internet security. But at the same time, some technology companies and the government set special legal restrictions on them, but also can reflect its sound aspects.

In the era of omnipresent internet, machines provide grounds for committing internet fraud but can also be a channel to commit traditional crime and provide platform for criminals to support each other and build network.

Because of jurisdiction conflicts, modern law enforcement has been unable to control, prevent, or prosecute crimes such as these.  In fact, the Internet has completely destroyed national law boundaries and legal notions of geography.  Thus, modern law enforcement has no power to enforce laws on-line.  The solutions to this problem would be either to establish worldwide standards of law, to which all countries would agree, or establish the ability to control data flow across borders and enforce national laws.  Unfortunately, neither of these options is currently feasible.

Today, most of society depends upon computers to produce, store, retrieve, manage information and surf the Internet. Technology is an integral piece of society and is embedded in every part of the daily workings of human existence. In the United States, there are approximately 239,893,600 Internet users (Internet World Stats [IWS], 2010) and globally there are 2,095,006,005 (IWS, 2011). This more than quadruples the amount of crimes that are committed online. As people continue to use computers and the Internet globally, the threat of criminal activity will continue to increase. Society is concerned about keeping their personal information confidential and eluding the traps that are in cyberspace. Due to the fact that society is at risk, law enforcement agencies are in somewhat of a quandary trying to keep one step ahead of the phenomenon of cybercrime. The government is not asleep to what cyber security related risks are plaguing the country. They have experienced breaches in security just like the average user and are reviewing the present policy and procedures so they can implement sticker penalties.

The main problem with the internet is an increase of sex crimes. In 2009 Greenhaven Press published “Cyber Crimes”. The book went on to talk about the problems about sex crimes and

Emergence of technology not only widens scientific horizon it also gives problems for the jurisprudence, legal system and legal world. The Information Technology which is made up of Computers, Internet and Cyberspace give problems for the law. Current system and its framework has proven to be inadequate in case of handing with Information Technology itself as well as while handling with the alterations induced by the Information Technology in the way of peoples living. The courts all around the globe is facing these problems. So there is the Cyber Laws in action which are there to control these crimes and for this crimes to stop proper evaluation techniques to verify the strength of an specific system is extremely important.