Cybercrime, or computer-oriented crime, is the crime that involves a computer and a network.The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, ...
2. What Is Cyber Crime?
All crimes performed or resorted to by abuse of electronic
media or otherwise, with the purpose of influencing the
functioning of computer or computer system
Computer crime is when-
Computer is a target
Computer is a tool for the crime
Computer is incidental to a crime
3. Different types of Cyber Crimes-
• Hacking
• Denial of service attack
• Virus dissemination
• Software Piracy
• Malware
4. 1.Hacking-
Hacking: Illegal intrusion into a computer
system without the permission of the computer
owner/user
2.Denial of Service Attack-
An act by the criminal, who floods the bandwidth
of the victim’s network or fills their e-mail box
with spam mail depriving him of the services he
is entitled to access or provide
6. 4.Software Piracy-
• Theft of Software through the illegal
copying of genuine programs or the
counterfeiting and distribution of products
intended to pass for the original
• Examples(Pirate Bay, Bootlegs, etc)
• End user copying, Downloads
7. Includes different types of programs
designed to be harmful or malicious
Spam
Adware and spyware
Viruses
Worms
Trojan horses
Rootkits
5.Malware-
8. • Virus - a program that replicates itself and infects
computers
Needs a host file
May use an email program to infect
other computers
The attack is called the payload
Check to see if message is a hoax
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9. Logic Bomb
✓Behaves like a virus
✓Performs malicious act
✓Does not replicate
✓Attacks when certain
conditions are met
Time Bomb
✓A logic bomb with a
trigger that is a specific time
or date
April Fool’s Day
11. Drive-by download-
A visited website installs a program in
the background without
your knowledge
Firewall-
Hardware device that blocks
access to your network
Software that blocks access
to an individual machine
12. • Antivirus program-
Protects against viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware
Windows 10 includes Windows Defender
•An antispyware program that performs both real-time
protection
and system scanning
• Antispyware software-
Prevents adware and spyware from installing
• Security suite-
Package of security software
Combination of features