Exam 18: Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance

Compare and contrast cyberdeviance with cybercrime.Provide at least one example of each.

Cyberterrorism refers to the use a computer to orchestrate large-scale "attacks on information," including government or critical infrastructure servers or any database of interest to national security.

Which of the following statements is true in the context of how best to ensure the Internet is a safe place for Canadian users that is not used for criminal purposes?

Cyberterrorist generally focus on attacking human targets rather than institutional targets.

Unlike corporations and American government agencies,Canadian government agencies have thus far avoided cyberattacks.

Luring is when someone uses an Internet connection to access social media,chat rooms,or other places of electronic assembly to make contact with a child or person under 16 to meet for sexual purposes.

Skimming is an attempt to remotely circumvent the security or privacy measures of a website for the purposes of either stealing information or other malicious actions against the owner of the website.

Which of the following terms refer to the use of software and hardware to steal data (usually related to credit cards)by intercepting e-transmissions,which then enable the cloning or counterfeiting of specific financial instruments (credit cards,bank cards,etc. )for the purposes of theft and fraud?

Which of the following can best be described as ripping?

Compare and contrast cybercrime with cyber terrorism.

Identify and discuss two types of sexual offences that are perpetrated over the Internet and other technologies.Compare these to traditional (offline)sexual offences.

Which of the following terms refer to the use of a network-enabled device to repeatedly make unwanted contact with a person (through e-mails,text messages,etc. )knowing that this behaviour is likely to cause fear or annoyance?

Chapter 18 argues that to better understand cybercrime and cyberdeviance one requires a broader understanding of computer technologies as being inherently criminogenic. What is mean by this statement? Describe some ways that computer technologies can be inherently criminogenic.

Within the context of exhibitionism,exposing one's body in explicit or suggestive fashion in the physical (offline)world is analogous to what in the digital (online)world?

Which of the following can best be described as spamming?

Cyberbullying Reporter employed critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to aggressive or antisocial online exchanges.What was the purpose of this exercise?

Describe the cybercrimes of phishing,ripping,and skimming.Identify at least two characteristics they share and two characteristics that make each distinct from one another.

Ripping is the use of specially designed software to download original material from a protected media source (e.g. ,online movie)to a hard disk,for the purposes of resale or redistribution.

Which of the following can best be described as hacking?

The application of routine activity theory to cybercrimes and cyberdeviance reveals that the future of guardianship on the Internet is difficult to predict.