Criminal Law 3: Cybercrime Scenario and Governmental Measures

This report delves into the realm of cybercrime, examining the profiles of cybercriminals, including their personal traits and motivating factors, and the various types of crimes they commit, such as cyberstalking, identity theft, and phishing scams. It explores the role of society in combating cybercrime, emphasizing the importance of individual protection and the need for societal support in building secure software and advocating for government assistance. The report highlights urgent actions governments must take, including creating robust data protection structures, implementing cybersecurity initiatives, and improving federal efforts to protect sensitive data. Furthermore, it acknowledges the critical role of law enforcement agencies like the FBI in preventing cybercrime through vigilant monitoring and the development of countermeasures.

[Cyber crime]
Scenario revolving around cybercrime, regulations revolving around them and governmental
measures in order to prevent further such crimes from being committed.
2020
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Personality Profile of a Cyber Criminal
An understanding of the criminal is a must in order to understand the kind of crime or
the level of crime that individual is capable of. The bases on which the cyber criminals are
distinguished are personal traits, motivating factors and even the types as in coders, inside
traders or even cyber terrorists. These help figure out the disturbances or off track behaviours
so as to identify them as a personality of a cyber -criminal (Cyber Security Capacity Portral ,
2016).
Specific crimes committed by Cyber Criminals
Few of the most common crimes that Cyber Criminals commit include, Cyber
Stalking, Online harassment, and invasion of privacy, trafficking of humans, phishing scams,
money laundering, pornography and also Identity Theft. Though there are various others, but
these are the few ones that are committed every now and then (Panda Security, 2018).
Society’s role
Throughout the past years , the law enforcement of the US has been progressively
seen or noticed the increase of cybercriminals in the far away areas of the country or so called
remote areas, both to enable nearby specialists to find and capture cyber criminals and to
remove them extradite them accordingly into the legitimate framework of America (Burgess,
2018). Personally what people can do here is keeping them safe and not sharing their private
information with any one. Society on a larger scale can protect each other and support
building of certain softwares and even ask for help from the state as such to assist them with
funds and sources so as to protect their rights. Places where the extradition treaties do not
apply, in such cases, the government has to be pressured in order to take swift steps to ensure
the safety of its citizens (Greenberg, 2020).

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Urgent actions that need to be taken by governments
In such situations, certain actions can prevent harm or even further harm for that matter.
Few of these include:
1. Creating a detailed and comprehensive structure to prevent data being utilized
somewhere other than the federal authorities or the individual himself and protecting
national cyber security and global cyber space from certain risky threats.
2. Implementation of the government wide initiatives of the cyber security.
3. Keeping strict eye on the security of new devices or the new advancements made by
the countries or globally for that matter.
4. Federal efforts should also be improved in order to protect the sensitive data and
privacy of individuals (GAO, 2018).
In general, FBI also has played a very important role in preventing the cyber -crime by
being vigilant enough and constructing certain ransom wares to fight against cyber -crime.
They have a whole team dedicated towards preventing such crimes all over the country.
These authorities keep an eye and track the working of each and every individual (FBI,
2020).
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