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In today’s world everyone is online and as everyone has moved into the cyber world so have the world’s criminals. What was invented as a way for scientists to do research in remote locations has become a metaphoric playground for the lawless. The internet a place where we all go in our down time; where Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest all live is a wonderful and amazing technological break though that has completely modeled our existence today, but there is a dark side to the internet the “dark net” (Gerdes). Cyber-crime is quickly becoming the hottest mechanism of crime in the world. Some of the ways that cyber-crimes are replacing traditional crimes are like burglary being replaced by hacking into networks or private computers, phishing for information online instead of deception calling, internet extortion instead of physical extortion, and online fraud as opposed to face to face fraud.
In the beginning hackers hacked into computers and networks out of curiosity or for fun, but more recently they have been caught using their skills for personal financial gain (Stein). Hackers who use the skills for crimes are sometimes referred to as black hatters and the hackers whom are working for good, such as working for law enforcement, are referred to as white hatters (Chamelin475). Six months into the year 2010 cyber-crimes had jumped from sixty million to one hundred-eighty million cyber-crime cases (Chamelin475). One of the most popular forms of cyber intrusion is through malware or malicious software. Malware is any software with the intentions of blocking computer use remotely, to covertly steal computer data, to secretly intercept computer data, or to subvert the transmission of data for personal profit. Most malware is...

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Chamelin, Neil C., and Leonard Territo. "Cybercrime." Criminal Investigation. By Charles R. Swanson. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2012. 472-87. Print.
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Stein, Richard Joseph. Internet Safety. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2009. Print.
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