THE GROWING THREATS OF CYBER CRIME

The National Information Infrastructure is the nationwide interconnection of communications networks, computers, databases and consumer electronics that make vast amounts of information available to users. The national information infrastructure also comprises the critical infrastructure, which is deemed critical because its incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the national security, and the economic and social welfare of the nation. The history of information security begins with computer security. The need for computer security is the need to secure physical locations, hardware and software from threats. In absence of technology and trained personnel to deal with this new threat known as cyber crime, the security agencies are challenged by specialized cyber offenders which are known as hackers because apart from managing to break into state institution websites they are able to have unauthorized access to information classified as state secret and top-secret. In this paper, I will present the To assist banks in preparing for the new threat environment the leader in cyber fraud detection and prevention, has compiled this report of the top five cyber crime trends.