Cyber Crime

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Now, through a personal home desktop and internet connection, one can access vast galleries of information in the form of digital multimedia. Apart from all the fun you can have, the World Wide Web has also created a new environment of doing businesses, many corporations have adopted the World Wide Web to carry out its business services such as for banks with online services or even selling products such as Dell computers selling products online. The Internet and the World Wide Web has grown into a complex environment throughout the world and in Malaysia almost 62.6% of the population is connected to the internet on regular basis. In Malaysia, there have been 4,000 reported complaints by the citizens of Malaysia to CyberSecurity Malaysia.

Cyber crimes is a form of crime conducted over the internet using computer technology and involving in activities such as hacking, fraud and identity theft, copyright infringements, privacy and confidential data violations, obscene and offensive content, cyber stalking, information warfare, cyber terrorism and many more.

As mentioned above, Cybercrimes come in many forms and conducted through various techniques, the art of hacking, where one tries to access computer systems illegally through various methods such as sending a virus to a system and gaining access to import data resources which could lead to identity theft and theft of personal data such as bank account details. Some people fall into this trap and end up filling their online form and submit the form. On the other hand, CTOS actions caused many civilians of Malaysia to be black marked, if one had a bad history.

Legal frameworks known as Computer Crimes Act (CCA) 1997, is a legal framework for offenses relating to misuse of computers. Within the first category, the CCA criminalizes the acts of unauthorized access (section 3), unauthorized modification (section 5) and wrongful communications of access code or passwords (section 6).

Meanwhile, for the second category that involves other substantially criminal offences, the CCA penalizes the act of unauthorized access that purports to facilitate further offences (section 4).