Investigating Computer Crime

Running head : Investigating Computer Crime

Investigating Computer Crime

Jeffrey

. West

SECR 5080 - Information Systems Security

Professor Edward Wright

2-29-2008

INVESTIGATING COMPUTER CRIMES (Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

ABSTRACT 2

INTRODUCTION 3

I . The MOTIVATIONS OF PEOPLE BEHIND COMPUTER CRIMES 4

II . INCREASING OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPUTER-RELATED CRIME 5

III . TYPES OF COMPUTER-RELATED CRIME 6

A . TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES OF THEFT 6

B . CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS FURTHERANCE 6

C . FORGERY , COUNTERFEITING AND PIRACY OF INFORMATION 7

D . OFFENSIVE MATERIALS DISSEMINATION 7

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. TAX EVASION AND ELECTRONIC MONEY LAUNDERING AND 8

F . TERRORISM AND ELECTRONIC VANDALISM 8

G . INVESTMENT AND SALES FRAUD 9

H .TELECOMMUNICATIONS ' ILLEGAL INTERCEPTION OF 9

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

I . FRAUD IN THE TRANSFER OF ELECTRONIC FUNDS 10

IV . IV . THE TEST TO CONTROL COMPUTER-RELATED CRIMES 10

V . PROSECUTION OF COMPUTER CRIMES 11

CONCLUSION 12 ABSTRACT

In general , computer-related crime , like any crime , may be made clear by a combination of three factors : motivation , opportunity and the lack of accomplished guardianship . Motivations will differ depending on the crime and its nature put under question , but it may be inclusive of lust , revenge , greed , challenge or adventure . The opportunities are intensifying radically with the fast penetration and proliferation of the digital technology . Considerable challenges are created by the international nature of rampant computer crimes . The most apposite strategies for the management of computer-related crime demand a combination of enforcement of law and solutions which are technological and market-based . The quest of a firm enforcement schema is , in most scenarios are not realistic for the reason that there is the limited capacity of the state . In addition , over-regulation , may strangle technological and commercial development . It has been contended that in some terms , the market place may be able to offer more effective problem resolutions for crimes related in the use of computers compared with the interventions of the state

INTRODUCTION

The world today is no longer running on weapons , nor money or energy . It is now running by ones and zeros which are the little bits of data known as electrons . There is a war out there in the world , a war wherein no bullets can be heard , a war which is all about the control of information , on what is seen , heard , worked and perceived , simply a war all about information . Some scenarios have concentrated on the computerization of information being a commodity of value as well as the technological means that will steal and evade such commodity . For many the wizardry of high-end technology , but otherwise it is better to be realistic than to assume . If ever there is a lesson learned , it is the criminality which is obviously evident , related with the use of computers to be covered only through the difficulty in investigating and identifying crimes related to computers . What centers mostly on computer crime are the discussions of emerging crimes in technology , is the supposition that there is only one kind of offense . On the other hand this can be considered a case wherein there is...