FRSC 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cybercrime, Malware
1 Dec 2017
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How big of a problem is computer crime: no one knows for sure, much is unreported. Malware- software intended to damage and disable computers and computer systems. Conformational bias when someone tells you something that you already believe, you are more likely to believe it because of your bias already. Four broad types of computer crime: crimes where computers are the target, crimes where the computer is an instrument of crime, crimes where the computer is incidental to the crime, crimes associated to the prevalence of computers. Why: prestige in hacker community, to get a job, as part of their job, terrorism, profit. When: when did the crime ahppedn, can also be hared to determine, you download a free screen saver and also get a trojan horse that is going to capture all information that you enter at banking web sites.
