CYBERCRIME
DEFINITION: very simply it means any crime using a computer.
Cybercrime or computer crime can take many forms. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime) lists the following sub-categories:
- Malware and malicious code
- Denial-of-service attack
- Hacker/hacking
- Computing virus
- Cyber terrorism
- Information warfare
- Cyber stalking
- Fraud and identity theft
- Phishing
- Virtual crime
Cybercrime is a very broad term and more specific terms are emerging to describe particular crimes involving computers and computer networks, such as:
Cyberbullying: - use of the internet (via e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, and websites) to bully someone. It also extends to text messages sent by cellphones.
Cyberbullying was the focus of the Ministry of the Solicitor General and Public Safety British Columbia at BCCPA’s 30th Anniversary Training Symposium in October 2008.
Crime Prevention Tips - Cyberbullying 
Cyberbullying - A Research Guide developed by the BCCPA Resource Network
Safe Canada  - http://www.safecanada.gc.ca/link_e.asp?topicID=164&category=28&topic=164
International Cyberbullying Project -
http://shariff-research.mcgill.ca/cyberbullying/ (contains links to Canadian legislation and resources)
Cyberstalking (and Cyberharrassment) - defined by the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime as “threatening behaviour or unwanted advances directed at another using the Internet and other forms of online communications”. Cyberstalking could be carried out using e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, and websites. It too would extend to text messages sent by cellphones.
Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children - http://www.metrac.org/programs/info/cyber.htm
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Cybercrime Conferences and Consumer education:
(each of these resources contain links for further research and reading)
- The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace - http://www.polcyb.org/
- Safe Online Outreach Society (SOLOS) (cyberbullying and sexual exploitation) http://www.safeonlineoutreach.com/
- Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Awareness Month (October)
 http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1222891846689.sht
- Cybercrime and children
Children and youth are very comfortable with computers and communication tools such as social network sites, text messages, instant messages and chat rooms are very popular with them. But there are risks in using this technology and parents, teachers and caregivers need to become familiar with how children are using these tools so that they can teach them to be safe. Courtesy of the LearnNow BC Project, BCCPA is pleased to offer links to Steve Dotto’s CyberSafe video series on the safe use of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Nexopia as well as cellphone cameras, chat rooms, and internet shorthand. Click on this link http://www.learnnowbc.ca/Parent_Information_Centre/WhatsThat.aspx and select a video topic.”
List of available CyberSafe videos
Cyber Security
Camera Phones
Chat
Using Facebook
Facebook Overview
Facebook Finding Applications
Facebook Finding Friends
Facebook Groups
Facebook Privacy
Facebook Profile Settings
Facebook’s Wall
MySpace
Nexopia
Parental Controls
Passwords
Resources
Shorthand SMS
- E-Telligence issue 12 January 13, 2009
- Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies
- Pink Shirt Day
- Cyber tip
- Every Image, Every Child
For further information check out BCCPA’s Resource Network at: http://www.bccpa.org/library/index.htm
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