Cyber Crimes- Challenges & Solutions

Abstract — Over the past ten years, crime (traditionally based in the world of physical entity) has been increasingly making its way into the world of information. Crime is evolving; since the days when goods were transported by stagecoach, robbery has changed to keep up, even to our modern-day equivalent-credit and debit cards. Internet credit card number theft has become a well-recognized danger. The most common forms of computer crime reported to Inter-GOV include child pornography, fraud, and e-mail abuse. Even more disturbing are new forms of cyber-terrorism made possible by the large amount of the physical machinery now operated by computers. In this article, after attempting to define computer crime, we examine the types that have been committed in the past, and the new types likely to appear in the future. We also examined the difficulty in detecting and measuring computer crime, methods for attempting to prosecute or prevent such crimes, and the effectiveness of these measures. This article evaluates the concepts of computer crimes, detection and the controls. The paper finally exposed us to dangers it poses to organizations, factors that encourage it, and recommending possible controls and preventive measures against computer crimes