Electronic Entertainment May Be The New Private Eye

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As this century's influx of new technology continues, the potential harm towards a computer user's personal information and unauthorized access grows along with it. These days, certain criminals can now commit crimes from the comfort of their own home, specifically through the use of their computer. Two types of crimes that are occurring at exponential rates are computer crimes and cybercrimes. Computer crimes are “illegal acts involving a computer” and cybercrime refers to “online or Internet-based illegal acts” (Shelly and Vemaat 382) both are done by individuals who have advanced computer skills and are known as hackers. These hackers have a variety of goals that range from personal gain of assets (or commissioned gain from a third-party), spying on others, or simply for the challenge. Computer users are concerned about their bank account information, Social Security number, social media accounts, and personal information but a newer security breach that many of us should be concerned about is the possibility of our webcams being hacked into, also known as camfecting or camjacking. Camfecting is “the fraudulent process of hacking into a person's webcam and activating it without the webcam owner's permission, the remotely activated webcam can then be used to watch anything within the webcam's field of vision” (Anticamfecting Co). Numerous instances of camfecting happen to individuals whether they are directly targeted and sought after or are part of a bulk camjacking. Victims of camfecting include Miss Teen USA 2013, “1.8 million yahoo users” around the globe(Osborne and Whittaker), and maybe even myself.
Cassidy Wolf was a teen the first time a hacker camfected her computer through an e-mail message containing a link she may...

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Shelly, Gary B., and Misty Vermaat. "Computer Security and Safety, Ethics, and Privacy." Discovering Computers: Fundamentals: Your Interactive Guide To The Digital World. Boston, MA: Course Technology, 2012. N. pag. Print.
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Wolf, Cassidy. "Miss Teen USA Lived Through Your Worst Hacking Nightmare." Teen Vouge, Nov. 2013. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.

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