CATEGORIES OF COMPUTER CRIME

Explain in detail the four common categories of computer crimes and provide at least one example for each. There are many different types of computer crime and multiple ways to categorize them. I will discuss four categories in detail to shine light on how vulnerable people are, when we choose to use a personal or publicly used computer to transmit confidential information, conduct business transactions or transfer funds between accounts. Even the most knowledgeable experts on computers are not exempt from being victims of computer crimes. The Computer as a Target

Crime can happen in many different ways. One of the most common areas is the use of the computer. According to Ronald B. Standler, there are three major classes of criminal activity with computers. The first way is unauthorized use of a computer, which might involve stealing a username and password, or might involve accessing the victim's computer via the Internet through a backdoor, operated by a Trojan Horse program. The second way is creating or releasing a malicious computer