Cyber Wellness - Crime
Chapter 6 Explain legal consequences of cyber crimes What is cyber crime? "Cyber crime is a term used broadly to describe criminal activity in which computers and networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity.” Cyber crime or internet crime is a term used to describe offences that are committed or facilitated over the internet. These are criminal acts related to the use of computers such as: Gaining unauthorized access to computer to view, modify, destroy, copy or use its data. Crimes committed using the internet as a medium (e.g. cyber bullying, online auction fraud etc.) Although the term cyber crime is usually restricted to describing criminal activity in which the computer or network is an essential part of the crime, this term is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enable the illicit activity. Examples of cyber crime which the computer or network is a tool of the criminal activity include spammin