Towards an understanding of Cyber Crime: Users ’ Perspectives- Case Study of Developing Countries in South East

The Internet has been playing crucial roles in our life for decades by opening a new separated and free world that is capable of improving and bringing benefits to our life in different areas such as economic, education, governance and entertainment. Nevertheless, due to being virtual and separated from the real living world, plus the ability to expand throughout the globe, the Internet has eventually become a tool for criminals utilized for malicious purposes. The commitment of those crimes by abusing the Internet with malicious tools and methods is recognized widely as ‘cyber-crime’. In order to defend against the expansion of cyber-crimes, several factors that affect cyber crime’s development have been studied and determined by prior and current researches. Apart from a nation’s IT infrastructure and law and regulations of Internet behaviors, the awareness of the Internet’s users is considered as an imperative factor that helps the users protect themselves against cyber crime as the very first tier of the defense, thus prevents the development of these notorious intentions