... access to information previously considered private and confidential (Regan 26). Gregory Regan, writing for Credit World, says that only certain types of tasks and features can be performed securely. Electronic banking is not one of them. "I would not recommend performing commercial business transactions," he advises "or sending confidential information across networks attached to the Internet" (26). In the business world, computer ... a network and let it automatically probe for security holes, without any interaction from themselves (Cambridge 1). Hackers, it seems, have no trouble st...

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... technology and the use of computers in both the personal and business sector has increased remarkably. This increase has bought changes in all areas of society including such areas as banking, the stock exchange, air traffic control, telephones, electric power, health and education. These industries have not only improved but are now largely dependant on information technology for their operation ... world, then it seems natural that many elements of a traditional society can be found taking shape as bits and bytes. With electronic commerce comes electronic merchants, plugged-in educator...

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... a few. And these various cyber crimes fall into an elusive gray area of internet law that is neither fully nor partially covered by any existing comprehensive laws. Most things posted online can be covered with the first amendment - freedom of speech, which makes this new and dangerous terrain immensely difficult to monitor. Since cybercrime is a newly specialized field, growing in cyberlaws ... in 1997, recognized the growing need to protect our aspects, so promoted a national effort to assure the security of the United States' increasingly vulnerable and interconnect infrastructures, ...

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