LEGAL APPRAISAL OF CYBERCRIME IN NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION A young man sitting in the corner of his class in school during the lunch break with his smartphone or his laptop or even his iPad, hits the send button on any of these devices sitting with a straight face, might have just illegally transferred funds from his friends Etransact account, or even from a random person over in Malaysia’s account. Or he might have just finished downloading the latest blockbuster movie from websites similar
Cybercrime and other related crimes Crimes related to any violation of law or commission of an act prohibited by law. There are various practical strategies for different countries to fight against crime. It is in scope and nature. It can be concluded that a nation with a high rate of crime cannot grow or prosper. This is because the crime is the opposite of development. There are many definitions of cybercrime. After Wikipidia.com cybercrime as a computer crime, the known refers to a crime that
Cybercrime refers to illegal activities conducted through the computer. It is a growing area of crime. More criminals are utilizing the speed and anonymity of the internet to commit various crimes. Cybercrime can be broken down into two main types of internet related crimes which are advanced cybercrime and cyber enabled crime. Advanced cybercrime is sophisticated attacks against computer hardware and software. Cyber enabled crime are increasing crimes that exploit advances of the internet such as
Crime is a common word that we always heard in this globalization era. The rapid growth of the internet and computer technology over the past few years had caused by the growth of the new crime which is cyber-crime throughout the world. Wordpress (n.d), research revealed that the history of cyber-crime happens when computers and networks came into being in the 1990s, hacking was done basically to get more information about the systems and hackers even competed against one another to win the tag of
transmit information or data from one place to another or from one person to another. Technology is used for many purposes such as, used to convey ideas, exchange information and express emotions. Humans use communication technology tools like phones, computers, emails, fax, text messaging tools to stay in touch with friends and family. In fact, we apply technology in almost everything we do in our lives. We use technology at work and we use it to extract materials. Also, we use technology for communication
The crime of cyber stalking occurred due to the Americanism in early 21st century and this can be committed by use of electronic communication. Most of the time the victim may received emails , messages , posts from an anonymous person who is try to control
Types of Cyber Crimes [2] There are four significant types of cyber crime: 1.Cyber Crimes against persons 2.Cyber Crimes against property 3.Cyber Crimes against government 4. Cybercrimes Against Society Cyber Crimes against persons: Cyber Crimes carry out toward persons involve varied crimes like broadcast of child-pornography,cyber porn,harassed someone by using technology through e-mail and spam messages.The trade and dispensation of illegal and immoral substance comprises pornography and vulgar
Cybercrime in a broader sense (computer-related crime): Any illegal behavior committed by means of, or in relation to, a computer system or network, including such crimes as illegal possession [and] offering or distributing information by means of a computer system or network. Crime has been described as an act, wherein the offender is liable to be punished for any shameful act, or any act against morality or social order or any unjust act committed by him. Crime is the genus and
McKinnon, a Scottish citizen, was accused of hacking into the United States military and NASA computers. He hacked into these systems using a script called “Perl” that searches for blank passwords on the military and NASA computers. He used the alias “Solo” to protect on his identity on the computer of his girlfriend’s aunt in London. The United States government claimed that Gary hacked into total of 97 computers belonging to the military and NASA. The government indicates that he deleted several critical
becoming unstoppable. The effect of hacking computer are numerous, some are trivial while others have caused serious damaged. For this terrible situation to stop and because of computer is my passion, I choose this topics. Hopefuly, through the essay, reader will be provided with knowledge covering the influence of computer hacking and the way how society tried to minimize those effects. Because of lack knowledge in this scope,