CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Zonealarm, Cybercrime, Script Kiddie

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

There are so many things that can afect our use of our computers & many more things that can threaten our digital security. Idenity thef is a huge concern this day and age. Our networks are being hacked and the next thing we know we have unknown charges on our credit cards or even new credit cards we never ordered. A cybercrime is any criminal acion perpetrated primarily through the use of a computer. Cyber criminals have even been known to purchase homes in another person"s name, resell the home and then abscond with the money, leaving you in the lurch for a debt you did not even know you had. Computer viruses are used to steal informaion from our computers, use our computers as an access point and many other reasons. A virus normally will either add code or replace computer code on your computer allowing the hacker to use your computer as their own.