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Deviant Behavior and Computer Crimes

Annes Newton- G00378073- Mae Conley- Deviant Behavior Assignment: Reading Assignment Chapter 13 DEFINE THE KEY CONCEPTS: 1. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: is a legislation passed by congress to address various forms of computer offending. 2. Crackers: cyber deviants who intend to damage. 3. Cyber deviance: is the news of the computer or internet to victimize computer systems. It ranges from relatively benign invasive acts directed at particular computer systems to intentionally destructive attacks against unknown internet users. 4. Hackers: is defined as cyber deviants who are driven to explore the intricacies of computer programming and uncharted communications and to the extend boundaries of their expertise typically their intent is not to do harm. 5. Logic bombs: is referred to as computer programs that work in concert with a virus to instruct the computer to execute a certain function under certain conditions usually at a given date and time. 6. Salami: Computer attack that alerts financial data by slicing small amounts of money from a much larger account the victim rarely notices the financial loss. 7. Harassment: occurs when a perpetrator uses false accusations or statements affect to intimidate a victim. 8. Technotrespass: have a form of computer crime where unlawful access to a computer is gained which results in a unlawful exploration of computer files simply to look at contents not to damage alter or steal information. 9. Techno vandalism: is a form of computer crimes were unlawful as to a computer exit is gained and the offender may have malicious =intent but most often tries to meet the challenge of the unlawful entry. 10. Timing attacks: referred to as destruction or alteration of data in a computer before being processed placing one's own name on someone else's data file before it is processed or altering the order of jobs in the computer's processing or printing queue. 11. Trap doors: is a device installed in computer software that allows programmers to make 12. Trojan horse: a device that carries instructions into a computer program that is disguised as authorized and useful to have hidden viruses worms or logic bonds used to disable system. 13. Viruses: referred to as programs that are sent through email or downloaded from the internet to have the ability t reproduce themselves, alter computer programs and alter and destroy data or render disk space or memory unusable. 14. Worms: are computer programs that invade a computer by means of the internet and attack computer software destroying data and operating procedures; they exist independently of other programs and posses the ability to replicate themselves and attack other computers attached to the original victim. 15. Computer voyeurism: is when the offender simply reads confidential documents without altering them in anyway. 16. Changing data: records and financial accounts are changed usually to the advantage of the offender. 17. Deleting data: when all or the entire computer files are deleted or sabotaged. 18. Hacktivist: add computer hacker whose activity is aimed at promoting a social or political cause. 19.