Exam 15: Cybercrime and the Future of Crime

Types of attacks on computers have generated their own argot.

Cybercrime is considered a separate type of crime.

According to crime predictions, urban robbery rates will most likely decline.

Both viruses and works can spread with no assistance.

According to Ogburn (1922), computers can change communications, commerce, and even dating behavior far more quickly than the capability of societal values and norms to keep pace.

Experts suggest that parents should play a more proactive role in monitoring their child's use of the internet.

Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, and eavesdropping sniffers can all be used to compromise the integrity of or deny access to data.

______ attempts to identify future developments (trends or events that might influence crime).

Online pedophiles tend target young "wannabe" hackers and participants in chat rooms.

All of the following are examples of cybercrime except ______.

Which of the following are similar to viruses that reproduce themselves and subvert computer systems?

"Phone-phreaking" refers to automatic speed dialers used by computer hackers.

Describes the two methods used to explain how demographic shifts will influence the future of crime.

Identify the eight forecasts for the future of digital crime according to Taylor, Caeti, Loper, Fritsch, and Liederbach in Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism (2006).

What are cyberpunks?

What is the hacker's ethic?

The world of computer offenses has produced its own argot which is a specialized vocabulary peculiar to a group of people. Identify and describe three of the terms that relate to cybercrime.

Which of the following best describes rogue programs that copy themselves into other programs or disks?

What is cyberviolence?

Which of the following best describes computer hackers who develop harmful programs?