Development and Impact of Cyber Crime in Australia

Development and
Impact of Cyber
Crime in Australia

Introduction
 In cyber crime, computer is used for the
objectification of crime
 Such criminals make use of IT technology for
accessing business data, trace secrets
 As highlighted by the Global Cyber Security
Briefing, the top organisations in Australia needs to
understand the kinds of threat coming from cyber
hackers
 Again, as analysed in this presentation, gaining
100% security against cyber attacks is almost
impossible (Nicholson 2018).
 Further analysis in the presentation would be
concentrated around the gradual evolution of
cybercrime, threats related to vulnerabilities and
inexperience of the young internet users at a
business or personal level,

Elements of interest for Cyber
Perpetrators
 In the early years of internet adaptation, in Australia,
the term of computer virus was an alienated concept
 The people gradually became acquainted with
criminal phenomenon of virus when IT systems were
held hostage by program developed by the elite
cybercriminals
 Researchers like Mikolic-Torreira et al. (2017),
discusses about digital security threats like Symantec
2016
 Such incidents highlight how cyber criminality has
emerged in to the state of a profession and
organisations advocating cyber criminality as a
business has emerged through decades.
 Better and more intelligently designed software are
coming up for crippling targets and undermining the
defences to cyber crime.

Victimisation of the younger
generation On an individual level, the threat of cyber crime comes to people from known
assailants, mostly.
 In case if the figures of cyber crime victimisation are analysed. It would be evident
that younger generation is targeted more often that the older generation.
 As of the data collected in the year, 2012, only 2.3% of the respondents from the
organisational representatives, aged between 19 to 74 years reported that were
victims of cyber criminality (Dean 2016)
 The same figure for the respondents aged between 15 to 24 years was 5.3%.
 The kind of cyber crime that the younger generation is mostly prone to is online
scam invitations.