NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cyberculture, Cyberterrorism, Dumpster Diving
15 Aug 2018
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Any crime done with the use of computer technology. Computers can be used: as the targets of crime, electronic trespassing, sabotage, software privacy, to facilitate another crime, fraud, forgery, crimes against children. Cybercrime costs global economy up to billion a year. A virus (malware) is a software program that can harm the files and programmes on your computer. It can spread from one computer to another but only through human assistance. A worm is a virus that can copy itself and spreads without human assistance. It consumes system memory causing computer to be slow and unresponsive: ca(cid:374) allow (cid:373)ali(cid:272)ious users to (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:373)puter re(cid:373)otely. A trojan horse: appears to be a useful program but contains within it a hidden virus. A time bomb (logic bomb) a virus that stays dormant for a specific amount of time before it starts to affect your computer.
