Computer Fraud And Crimes

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Term Paper Title	Computer Fraud And Crimes
# of Words	950
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.8

Computer Fraud and Crimes

Computer Fraud and Crimes

In the world of computers, computer fraud and computer crime are very prevalent
issues facing every computer user. This ranges from system administrators to
personal computer users who do work in the office or at home.  Computers without
any means of security are vulnerable to attacks from viruses, worms, and illegal
computer hackers.  If the proper steps are not taken, safe computing may become
a thing of the past.  Many security measures are being implemented to protect
against illegalities.

Companies are becoming more aware and threatened by the fact that their
computers are prone to attack.  Virus scanners are becoming necessities on all
machines. Installing and monitoring these virus scanners takes many man hours
and a lot of money for site licenses.  Many server programs are coming equipped
with a program called "netlog." This is a program that monitors the computer use
of the employees in a company on the network.  The program monitors memory and
file usage.  A qualified system administrator should be able to tell by the
amounts of memory being used and the file usage if something is going on that
should not be.  If a virus is found, system administrators can pinpoint the user
who put the virus into the network and investigate whether or not there was any
malice intended.

One computer application that is becoming more widely used and, therefore, more
widely abused, is the use of electronic mail or email.  In the present day,
illegal hackers can read email going through a server fairly easily. Email
consists of not only personal transactions, but business and financial
transactions.  There are not many encryption procedures out for email yet.  As
Gates describes, soon email encryption will become a regular addition to email
just as a hard disk drive has become a regular addition to a computer (Gates
p.97-98).

Encrypting email can be done with two prime numbers used as keys.  The public
key will be listed on the Internet or in an email message.  The second key will
be private, which only the user will have.  The sender will encrypt the message
with the public key, send it to the recipient, who will then decipher it again
with his or her private key. This method is not foolproof, but it is not easy to
unlock either.  The numbers being used will probably be over 60 digits in length
(Gates p.98-99).

The Internet also poses more problems to users.  This problem faces the home
user more than the bu...

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