Cybersolution Agenda 1: Anti-Cybercrime
Campaign and fighting against criminal activity committed on the internet in Africa. i.e. cybercrime against folks, against property, and against enterprise & government.
Theme: Anti-Cybercrime Campaign and Awareness 2008
- Anti-CyberPiracy Awareness Forum/Meetings/Road-show
CYBERCRIME AWARENESS IN EDUCATION AND LEARNING INSTITUTIONS
- Anti-Cybercrime Campuswide Awareness Program (ACCAP)
- Anti-Cybercrime Collegewide Awareness Campaign (ACCAC)
- Anti-Cybercrime Awareness Education Program for Primary School (ACAEP)
CYBERCRIME AWARENESS IN BUSINESSES
- Anti-Cybercrime Enterprisewide Awareness Campaign (ACEAC)
- Anti-Cybercrime SME Awareness Campaign (ACSAC)
CYBERCRIME AWARENESS IN FAITH-BASED GROUP
- Anti-Cybercrime Faith-Based Awareness Campaign (ACFBAC)
- Anti-Cybercrime Individual Awareness Campaign (ACIAC)
- Anti-Cybercrime Collaborative Awareness Campaign Initiative (ACCAC)
CYBERCRIME AWARENESS IN GOVERNMENT & PARA-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
- Anti-Cybecrime Sector-Based Awareness Campaign (ACSBAC)
- Anti-Cybercrime collaborative initiatives with government instutions
- Anti-cybercrime Ministry and Parastatal-wide Awareness Campaign
Cybersolution Agenda 1: Anti-Cybercrime Continued: What is Cybercrime all about?
At a recent United Nations-backed conference held in 5th October,2007 in Geneva, Experts have agreed to jointly take action to combat the constantly evolving and increasingly sophisticated challenges posed by cybercrime. The legal, moral, technical and institutional challenges posed by cyber-threats and cybercrime are global and far-reaching, and can only be addressed through an articulate plan of action taking into account the role of different stakeholders and existing initiatives, within a framework of global and National cooperation.
Various cybercrimes like transmission of child-pornography, harassment of any one with the use of a computer such as e-mail. The trafficking, distribution, posting, and dissemination of obscene material including pornography and indecent exposure, constitutes one of the most important Cybercrimes known today. The potential harm of such a crime to humanity can hardly be amplified. This is one Cybercrime which threatens to undermine the growth of the younger generation as also leave irreparable scars and injury on the younger generation, if not controlled.
According to an international, A minor girl in Ahmedabad was lured to a private place through cyberchat by a man, who, along with his friends, attempted to gangrape her. As some passersby heard her cry, she was rescued.
Another example wherein the damage was not done to a person but to the masses is the case of the Melissa virus. The Melissa virus first appeared on the internet in March of 1999. It spread rapidly throughout computer systems in the United States and Europe. It is estimated that the virus caused 80 million dollars in damages to computers worldwide.
In the United States alone, the virus made its way through 1.2 million computers in one-fifth of the country’s largest businesses. David Smith pleaded guilty on Dec. 9, 1999 to state and federal charges associated with his creation of the Melissa virus. There are numerous examples of such computer viruses few of them being “Melissa” and “love bug”.
Cyberharassment is a distinct Cybercrime. Various kinds of harassment can and do occur in cyberspace, or through the use of cyberspace. Harassment can be sexual, racial, religious, or other. Persons perpetuating such harassment are also guilty of cybercrimes.
Cyberharassment as a crime also brings us to another related area of violation of privacy of citizens. Violation of privacy of online citizens is a Cybercrime of a grave nature. No one likes any other person invading the invaluable and extremely touchy area of his or her own privacy which the medium of internet grants to the citizen.
The second category of Cyber-crimes is that of Cybercrimes against all forms of property. These crimes include computer vandalism (destruction of others’ property), transmission of harmful programmes.
A Mumbai-based upstart engineering company lost a say and much money in the business when the rival company, an industry major, stole the technical database from their computers with the help of a corporate cyberspy.
The third category of Cyber-crimes relate to Cybercrimes against Government. Cyber terrorism is one distinct kind of crime in this category. The growth of internet has shown that the medium of Cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the international governments as also to terrorise the citizens of a country. This crime manifests itself into terrorism when an individual “cracks” into a government or military maintained website.
Cracking is amongst the gravest Cyber-crimes known till date. It is a dreadful feeling to know that a stranger has broken into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and has tampered with precious confidential data and information.
Coupled with this the actuality is that no computer system in the world is cracking proof. It is unanimously agreed that any and every system in the world can be cracked. The recent denial of service (DDos) attacks seen over the popular commercial sites like E-bay, Yahoo, Amazon and others are a new category of Cyber-crimes which are slowly emerging as being extremely dangerous.
Unauthorised access, using one’s own programming abilities as also various programs with malicious intent to gain nauthorized access to a computer or network are very serious crimes. Similarly, the creation and dissemination of harmful computer programs which do irreparable damage to computer systems is another kind of Cybercrime.
Professionals who involve in these cybercrimes are called crackers and it is found that many of such professionals are still in their teens. It said that computers that “control (our) power delivery, communications, aviation and financial services (and) store vital information, from medical re-cords to business plans, to criminal records”, were vulnerable from many sources, including deliberate attack.
Script-kiddies: Crackers do more than just spoiling websites.
Cybersolution Agenda 2: Anti-Software Piracy
Cybersolution Agenda 3: Cybersecurity Solution – The Main Agenda
