Thursday, October 30, 2008

Protect your computer !

Internet represents a real benefit in our professionnal and private lives. Yet, this virtual world can have a lot of dangers, like in real life.
More and more cybercrimes are listed on the Web.

First we have to define the word of « cybercrime ». Cybercrime is a kind of criminal activity done using computers and the Internet. For example, it’s downloading illegal music files to stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts. Cybercrime also includes non-monetary offenses, as for example, creating and distributing viruses
on computers or posting confidential information on the Internet. This concept was invented in 1990.

We can quote many examples of cybercriminalité. Some days ago, a guy was on the bank account of Nicolas Sarkozy on the Internet. This is a great example.
For the moment, the problem is that it exists any legislation to punish cybercrimnality. You can find more explanations about this phenomenon on this website :

http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/votre_securite/internet/cybercriminalite/view

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