E-Crime; A Digital Syndromme That Needs To Be Cured

Abstract

The internet has weaved and knitted the geographical boarders together and is a powerful tool for development paradoxically it provides criminals an avenue to perpetrate crimes with relative anonymity simultaneously making investigations of these high tech crimes too complex and not easily decipher-able. E-crime affects our daily lives, more so that our lives today is ruled by technology and revolves around the internet. The tremendous increase in communication devices, the ease at which we virtually connect globally and the fact that business is now conducted online has been accompanied by an equal rise in the number and type of attacks against the security of these online systems, business and services. The practical implications of this paper is to remind the International community, government, business organization, academia, executives (policy makers and legislators), and of course individuals, that e-crime is a global syndrome requiring full participation, awareness and cooperation in order to find not just a sustainable cure and deterrence, but also to bring offenders to justice, consequently making the cyber space more virtually habitable and safe.