Sunday, 22 March 2015

Relation of Cyberbullying and Identity theft/ Cybercrime

Cyberbullying is mainly defined as harassing or harming another person by electronic means using, telephone, internet, messaging, and social networking. In my opinion cyberbullying may also include theft of some personal or important information, which is called cybercrime.

Cybercrime is committing a crime through the use of a computer and a network. Cybercrime and Cyberbullying relate in a way that, one can steal another person’s personal information through hacking or other means.  It mainly includes all the crimes that are committed on the internet.

 (Kaspersky, n.d.)
A cyber thief can steal the personal information of a person such as their credit card information, accounts, important passwords, confidential documents by hacking and after that can use that information to harass, defame or threat a person, or using the information in any wrong manner.
Cybercrimes can include financial crimes to Cyber terrorism.
Another cybercrime committed in order to harm a person is to send viruses to their computer. Viruses are programs that downloads itself on the receiver’s computer, and multiplies its files and tries to harm the main disk of the computer. Spyware is a software that download itself on the victim’s computer and observes all the activities and keystrokes done on that computer, it also gives access to personal information stored on the computer.
Identity theft is another form of cybercrime.  It involves stealing a person’s personal information then pretending to be that person without their knowledge.
How do you define Cybercrime as?

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