ARTICLES CRIMES

Beware of Internet Crimes
CRIMES IN INTERNET (CYBER CRIME)
AND WHAT IS HACKING, CRACKING, carding, phishing, spamming and DEFACING etc.?

Indonesia is not only famous as the most corrupt country in the world, but also the State with the "carder" highest in the world, after Ukraine. "Carder" are criminals on the internet, who buy goods in virtual stores (online shopping) using someone else's credit card. Although the Indonesian Internet users is still small compared to other Southeast Asian countries, much less than in Asia or the developed countries, a citizen of Indonesia in the Internet already "popular" and polluted! Indonesia was "blacklisted" in a number of reputable online shopping, especially at amazon.com and ebay.com credit cards from Indonesia being watched even blocked. Indeed, as a new communication medium, the Internet provides a million benefits and convenience to the wearer. But the internet has also invited negative excesses, in a variety of crimes menggloblal. For example, the act of distributing product pornorgrafi, pedophilia, gambling, junk (spam), various viruses, sabotage, and various scams, such as carding, phishing, spamming, etc.. Severe, hence the name of the state trail.

Here are some types of crime via the internet:

Carding

Carding is shopping using credit card numbers and identities of others, which is obtained illegally, usually by stealing the data on the internet. The name the culprit was "carder". Another term for this type of crime is cyberfroud alias fraud in cyberspace. According to research Clear Commerce Inc., information technology company based in Texas - the U.S., Indonesia has a "carder" the world's second largest after the Ukrainian. As many as 20 percent of transactions over the Internet from Indonesia is the result of carding. As a result, many online shopping sites that block the IP or Internet protocol (Internet computer addresses) from Indonesia. If we're shopping online, shop online purchase form does not list the name of the Indonesian state. This means that Indonesia has not allowed consumers shopping on the site.

According to the observing ICT Watch, who observed the world of internet agencies in Indonesia, the carder is now operating further away, to commit fraud through chat rooms on mIRC. The way the carder offering goods as if the results of his carding a low price on the channel. For example, the laptop sold for Rp 1,000,000. Once there is an interest, carder ask buyers to send money to their account. Money obtained, but the goods never delivered.

HACKING

Hacking is an activity through a computer program owned by the person / the other party. Hackers are people who like ngoprek computer, have the expertise to make and read a particular program, and obsessed with watching the safety (security) it. "Hacker" has a double face, there is a grafter dear. "Hacker" Dear tells a computer programmer breached, the existence of weaknesses in the program made, so that it can "leak", to be fixed. Meanwhile, hackers grafter, through the programs of others to destroy and steal data.

CRACKING

Cracking is hacking for malicious purposes. The term for "cracker" is a "hacker" black hat (black hat hackers). Unlike the "carder" the only credit card peek, "cracker" peek deposits of customers at various banks or other sensitive data centers to benefit themselves. Although both computer security through other people, "hacker" is more focused on the process. While the "cracker" is more focused to enjoy the results. The case yesterday, the FBI in cooperation with Dutch police and Australian police arrested a teenager who has been through the cracker 50 thousand computers and peeked 1.3 million account various banks in the world. By its action, "cracker" named Owen Thor Walker has been making money as much as Rp1, 8 trillion. "Cracker" 18 years in the junior high school was arrested after a criminal activity in cyberspace investigated since 2006.

DEFACING

Defacing is an activity to change the site's pages / websites of other parties, as happened at the site Menkominfo and the Golkar Party, the central bank recently and the Commission website during the 2004 election. Deface any action which is purely for fun, skill performance, showing off the ability to program, but there is also evil, to steal data and sell to other parties.

Phishing

Phishing is the fishing activities of computer users on the internet (user) will provide information for self-user data (username) and password (passwords) on a website that has been deface. Phishing is usually directed at online banking users. Fields user data and passwords that have been sent vital eventually will become the property of criminals and used to spending with credit cards or cash accounts held by victims.

Spamming

Spamming is the sending of news or advertising via electronic mail (e-mail) is not desired. Spam is often referred to as bulk mail or junk e-mail alias of "junk". Nonetheless, many are affected and become victims. The most widely are e-mail delivery to gifts, lotteries, or people who claim to have an account at a bank in Africa or the Middle East, ask for help "netters" to melt, with the promise of profit sharing. Then the victim requested her account number, and send money / funds as an angler, of course denominated in U.S. dollars, and later there are reportedly no longer. A private university rector in Indonesia ever cheated to Rp1 billion reported in due spaming like this.

Malware

Malware is a computer program to find the weaknesses of a software. Generally malware created to break or damage any software or operating system. Malware is composed of various kinds, namely: viruses, worms, Trojan horses, adware, browser hijackers, etc.. In the market computer equipment and software stores (software) is already available anti-spam and anti virus and anti malware. However, for those who do not watch out there's always a hit. Because viruses and malware makers generally keep creative and productive in creating programs to work on his victims.

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Currently, the handling of crime in cyberspace (cyber crime) is still minimal, even though Indonesia is one of the country with the highest cases of cyber crime in the Ukraine. Handling cases of crimes of this type does require special skills of law enforcement.

Of the cases revealed so far, the perpetrators known to have a level of intelligence above the average. In addition to its economic motives, some hackers perform actions damaging the website of others just to show off the capabilities. The last case, Rizky Martin, 27, aka Steve Rass, 28, and Texanto alias Doni Michael doing the purchase of goods on behalf of Team Tamsin Invex Corp., a company located in the U.S. via the internet. Both break through a credit card via internet banking of Rp350 million. Two players arrested Cyber Crime Polda Metro Jaya on June 10, 2008 at a cafe in the area Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta. Early May 2008, Police Headquarters catch "hackers" called Iqra Intercession, 24, in a cafe in Batam, Riau, after tracking the IP addresses with the nick name alias Nogra Iqra. The young high school graduates are considered thin-brained cop and well known in hacker circles. He had to break down the data of a website and then sell it to foreign companies worth Rp600 thousand dollars, or about Rp 6 billion. In his confession, the local hackers to break 1257 this has been a general networking site owned abroad. Even the site of President SBY will never be disturbed, but he thought better.
Another case that has revealed the police in 2004 when the site is owned by the KPU (General Elections Commission), which also disturbed hackers. Display a symbol of the 24 parties was replaced with the name 'pink party', 'party cucak Rowo' and others. Perpetrators, known then, named Daniel Firman, 24, a student from Bandung who then arrested Polda Metro Jaya. Motivation of the perpetrator, it is said, just wanted to try out the security system at the site of the Commission which the government bought it for Rp 200 billion. And it worked.

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Data at Police Headquarters, of about 200 cyber crime cases handled nearly 90 percent carding dominated by foreign targets. Internet activity is cross country. The most frequently became targets are the United States, Australia, Canada and others. Perpetrators come from big cities like Yogyakarta, Bandung, Jakarta, Semarang, Medan and Riau. The main motive is economic. Ranking second with destructive hacking and hacking into websites of other parties with a variety of purposes, ranging from breaking into data and then sell them or fraudulent damage a particular site.

Other Internet crimes, pornography that make the Internet as an arena of prostitution. Some porn sites are used as prostitution and sex accessories sales never investigated Jakarta Police, and managers were arrested. Gambling sites like indobetonline.com, Police Headquarters had also dismantled. In addition, recently, police in Tangerang also dismantle gambling site that provides gambling ball tangkas.net agile, Mickey Mouse and others. Other crimes, internet fraud.

"Internet Crimes there are two categories, namely primary target computer facilities as a means of technology and not only as a means. Category into two, making the computer as a means of committing crimes.