Computer Crime Types

Kavindi Kirulamini
2 min readNov 1, 2021

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There is a list of computer crime types. These include criminal actions related to the information and communication field and especially when using computers.

A. Traditional Crimes

Today onwards, some traditional crimes have happened with computers. Computer frauds, identity theft, harassment, and also child pornography. Financial and telecommunication and credit card frauds are also related to traditional crimes. There are affected by the privacy of the users. It is a threat to them. Transmission of media that exploits children.

B. Phishing

It is type form of online identity. There are many kinds of methods that they do. Such as using tricks for fraudulent websites, using emails and credit card numbers to fulfill their purposes. Mostly they change the username and password and they attract to the process when clicking on the link entrance to the website.

C. Theft Computer Crimes

There are various types of theft of computer crime. These are mainly removed by using electronic resources. Money, service, programs, data, or computers include in this. Changing computer inputs and outputs and using unauthorized access to computer resources are some kinds of computer crimes related to identity theft. Mainly this focuses on stealing financial resources, credit, and insurance of another person using remove the private details of other parties. These are badly affected to the computer users.

D. Unauthorized Access

Here it describes, without any other permission to access the data. It is the same as hacking. It is a very tuff illegal law under California and federal law. Results may be very heavy. In here hacking is knowingly happen about the data of the computer. This is special in computer crime types. This form is the same as stealing electronic instruction. There may happen unauthorized access in work station. When entrance to the computer system and also computer network it may be happening. The one of latest famous unauthorized access is the Alexey V. Ivanov has involved to unauthorized access that has found in searching the federal organization. Computer fraud is also parallelly done with unauthorized access.

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