What is cyber crime? What are the two broad categories? What are some of the methods to prevent this crime?
Cybercrime is the use of computer technology to commit crime. Individuals who wish to use a computer as a tool to facilitate unlawful activity may find that the Internet provides a vast, inexpensive, and potentially anonymous way to commit unlawful acts, such as fraud, the sale or distribution of child pornography, the sale of guns or drugs or other regulated substances without regulatory protections, and the unlawful distribution of computer software or other creative material protected by intellectual property rights.
The two broad categories of cyber crime are sex crimes and illegally accessing and destroying data.
Sex crimes include online child pornography, child luring, and related offenses. …
