Impacts of Computer Crimes and Misuse on Users, Companies, and Society

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Computer crimes and computer misuse................................................................................................2
Literature review...................................................................................................................................3
Impacts of computer crimes and computer misuse..............................................................................5
Types of computer crimes and computer misuse..................................................................................7
Crackers.............................................................................................................................................7
Hackers..............................................................................................................................................7
Pranksters..........................................................................................................................................7
Spam..................................................................................................................................................7
Fraud.................................................................................................................................................8
Denial of service attack......................................................................................................................8
Career criminals.................................................................................................................................8
Findings and results...............................................................................................................................8
Recommendation..................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................10
References...........................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Computer crime is defined as the security threat, cyber-crime and hi-tech crime which
are performed by the hackers to access the personal devices and accounts of consumers.
Mainly, attacker’s uses the malicious software to detect the private details of users
because it has potential to identify the login ID and password of computer devices and
networks (Albanese, 2008) Computer misuse is defined as a security problem in which
the third person access user’s personal accounts and misuse their computer system and
networks. Many criminals enter into the computer devices and encrypt user personal
information such as bank details, pictures, financial documents and many more. The
objective of this report is to analysis and discusses the impacts of computer crimes and
misuse on the users, companies, and society. In this report, a literature review will be
conducted which evaluate the opinions of other experts and researcher and reduce the
previous research gaps. The research question will focus on the impact of computer
crimes and misuse on the companies, individuals and society.
Computer crimes and computer misuse
Computer crime is a part of cyber-crime in which hackers attack the computer devices
and networks of individuals. It is one of the most common security issue faced by many
organizations because criminals use the more complex algorithm and botnet process to
enter into the computer system. Between 2014 and 2016 the rates of computer crime
and misuse have increased by the 44% because every individual uses the internet
connectivity in their computer devices which are associated with the cyber-attacks and
data breaches (Bainbridge, 2007). It occurs when consumers and companies employees
use unauthorized servers to access their personal accounts because unauthentic
networks are developed by hackers to detect accounts details of users. Computer
misuse happens when any individual uses the third party application or click on the
unwanted links and many hackers send the traffic signals to the consumers to access
their computer systems (Williams, 2008). In this modern era, the rate of cyber-crimes
and computer misuse is growing rapidly and many largest business companies are
facing this issue and they can lose their personal information due to such security
issues.

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Literature review
Today, computer crime is very common cyber threat in the field of computer science
which is increasing due to the lack of security and use of unauthentic networks during
the communication process. There are many researchers investigated on this topic and
they observed that computer crimes impacts on the individual and companies due to
which they can lose their personal data files and suffer from the financial issues. Most
hackers attack the largest business industries and companies to earn more money
because they block users and employees data and demand money from companies to
restore their files. According to Biggs, and Vidalis, (2009) there are numerous kinds of
cyber-threats and attacks occur in the computer system and it is very difficult to identify
the key factors which increase the rate of computer crimes.
To understand the concept of computer crimes and misuse the researcher conducted a
survey and collected the views of other persons. This survey evaluated that more than
70% of individuals and employees use simple passwords and access personal Gmail
accounts in the third party application that increase the issue of cyber-attacks and
hacking. The computer crimes and misuse considered as the security threat and they
have serious impacts on the society and organizations in the form of psychological
disorder, economical disrupt and threat to national defense. Bryan Foltz, Schwager, and
Anderson, (2008) provide the understanding of cyber-attacks and their impacts on the
society and individuals and they identified that the problem of cyber-crimes can affect
the performance of the computer networks and companies can lose their clients and
consumers due to cyber-attacks. The Internet is the best platform to share and receive
any information from others and many individuals and organization use this step to
communicate with their friends and clients. But the problem of this step is that users
connected their devices with the internet and hackers use the malicious process to
identify their accounts details (Camp, 2009).
D'Arcy and Hovav, (2009) defined computer crime as a cyber-crime which is completely
related to the use of computer system particularly illegal trespass into the computer
devices. The author also discussed that the lack of security is one of common problem
which increases the percentage of the data breaches. In the the year 2016 attackers
hacked thousands of computer devices with the help of malware and botnet process and
they entered into the computer devices and blocked their files. In the year 2015, the