Cyber Crime

Cyber Crime means any illegal act that involve a computer, its systems, or its applications. It is any intentional act associated in any way with computers where a victim suffered or could have suffered a loss, and a perpetrator made or could have made a gain. It also means any illegal act for which knowledge of computer technology is essential for either its pepetration, investigation or prosecution.

Cyber crime committed on the internet. Everything from electronic hacking to denial of service attacks that cause electronic commerce sites to lose money. The crime that usually related with technology, computers and the internet. It happen when people using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity.

According to latest survey, computer crimes are committed by students, members of organise crime, disenchanted employees and ect.

There is few famous international cyber criminal in the history who are Jeffrey Parson, Adrian Lamo, Kevin Mitnick, Ventimiglia and others. To control or prevent more cyber crime happen, there are some international law on computer crimes been formulated. For example, European Convention on Cybercrime, Computer Misuse Act (UK), Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (US), Computer Misuse Act (Singapore), and Information Technology Act 2000 (India).

Malaysia also have own legal framework. Computer crimes in Malaysia are mainly provided in the Computer Crimes Act 1997. Besides that, there is other laws would cover the remedies, which are Copyright Act, Communication and Multimedia Act, Penal Code and Internal Security Act.