Title: How Does Cyber Crime Happen and How to Avoid Becoming a Victim - Bright Hub
Headings: How Does Cyber Crime Happen and How to Avoid Becoming a Victim
How Does Cyber Crime Happen and How to Avoid Becoming a Victim
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Cyber Crime
Access Point Attacks
Negligence
Confidential Information
Putting Your Life on the Internet
Viruses, Trojans, and Worms
Resources
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Article authored by R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen

Content: Firewalls can be bypassed and complex technology manipulated, resulting in cyber criminals gaining access to bank and financial accounts, security codes and passwords, and other confidential information. Putting Your Life on the Internet
With the new age of social networking, more and more people are sharing every aspect of their lives on the internet. This makes them vulnerable to cyber crime. When cyber crime does happen due to this type of activity, the types involve: Child pornography
Fraud
Harassment
Cyber-bullying
Stalking
Identity theft
Viruses, Trojans, and Worms
When asking, how does cyber crime happen, few think of viruses, trojans, and worms, though most people are familiar with these. These programs can do a wide variety of damage, from simply be annoying to stealing a person’s information or even completely destroying a computer network. A worm is a type of harmful program that makes several copies of itself. It can copy itself from using an email or a similar mode of transport, or copy itself from one disk drive to a different one. Worms can compromise the security and significantly damage a computer. A virus is a type of code or harmful program that replicates and/or infects another partition sector, program, document, or boot sector that supports macros through attaching itself or inserting itself to that medium.