CYBER CRIME

Cyber Crime

Cyber Crime

This study displays that cyber misdeed is the latest supplement to the list of misdeeds that can adversely sway enterprises exactly or indirectly. This occurrence was not exactly prosecutable in South Africa until the enactment of the ECT Act in July 2002. However this Act furthermore stops enterprises to completely prosecute a hacker due to incompleteness. Any kind of commercially associated misdeed can be replicated as cyber crime. Therefore very little study seems or has been documented about cyber misdeed in South African businesses before 2003. The motivation to manage this study was that enterprises often loose millions in cyber attacks, not inevitably through direct robbery but by the decrease of service and impairment to the likeness of the company. Most of the businesses that were advanced for meetings on cyber misdeed were reluctant to share the detail that they were hacked or that cyber misdeed appeared at their business as it violates their security values and may reveal their fragile security platforms. (Bencivenga 1997)

Introduction

While the sways of cyber misdeed are well documented on overseas (particularly American, Australian, British and some European) businesses, very little study appears to be accessible about South African companies. Research yearns to be completed on how awfully South African businesses are influenced by cyber misdeed (if at all) and if the recently promulgated regulations will assist in stopping and prosecuting these crimes. (Terror Cyber 1999)

Therefore the next study inquiries can be applied:

*How does cyber misdeed sway enterprise in South Africa?*To what span manage the regulations (new and old) fight back enterprise in this consider to avert cyber crime?

Case study was chosen as the methodology. Yin (1998, p. 23) characterizes a case as an empirical investigation that investigates a up to designated day occurrence interior its real-life context, particularly when the boundaries between occurrence and context are not apparently apparent and in which multiple causes of apparent are used. In this study, whereas sorely requiring in the South African context, lawful situations are a issue of public record and may supply insight into how the varied regulations are and would be implemented. Attention will furthermore be paid to data accessible from other parts in South Africa (for demonstration Banks, Insurance and some higher learning institutions). The participants for this study were banks (2) and protection bureaus (2) in South Africa as well as Higher Education organizations (2). The facts and numbers was assembled through meetings and observations. (De Villiers 2000)

Cyber Crime Concepts

Crime is a facet of humanity that adversely sways us all. Cyber misdeed is a latest supplement to the list of misdeeds that sway us, if exactly or indirectly. Until lately much cyber misdeed was not exactly prosecutable in South Africa due to the require of applicable commanding legislation. That which was prosecutable often relied very powerfully on the judgment under widespread regulation or statutory legislation under non-related (i.e. not computer related) acts. (Drozdova 1999) Business is adversely influenced by misdeed, regardless of of the ...