Question: What is computer crime?
Answer: Computer crimes are any acts against computer ethics. Specifically, computer crimes are harmful acts committed from or against a computer or network and it differs from most terrestrial crimes in four ways: they are easy to learn how to commit; they require few resources relative to the potential damage caused; they can be committed in a jurisdiction without being physically present in it; and they are often not clearly illegal because the laws of most countries do not clearly prohibit computer or cyber crimes.
Question: Give an example of a computer crime not stated in the Computer Ethics blog (http://cs192computerethics.blogspot.com/)
Answer: "Love-Bug" virus
It is estimated that the so-called "Love-Bug" email virus has caused some $10 billion in losses in as many as 20 countries.
The virus was originally distributed in an email with the subject line "I love you". The message contains the text "kindly check the attached LOVELETTER from me" and an attached file called LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.VBS. If this attachment is opened it will replicate itself and be transferred to all addresses within a user's email address book. The virus also deletes graphic files ending with the letters jpg or jpeg, and alters music files ending in mp3 to make them inaccessible.
The victim's Internet browser is directed by the virus to visit four web sites in the Philippines, where another malicious program called WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE is downloaded. This program searches the victim's hard drive for password files and sends them to an Internet account in the Philippines, managed by Access Net Inc., an Internet service provider.
The search for the author of the virus, which shut down the email service of the British parliament and attacked the computers of the Pentagon and CIA in the US, focused on the Philippines, after security experts scrutinised the code of the virus.
Initial reports that the author had used the name "spider" proved to be misleading. The references to "spider" in the software code were, in fact, references to the author of the password collection software used in the file "WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE", which infected computers were directed to download. Stolen passwords were emailed to accounts at Access Net in the Philippines with the message, "Barok... e.mail.passwords.sender.Trojan-by spyder."
Question:Visit this site. http://www.crime-research.org/news/09.07.2008/3443/. This is the site that features the first Hacking crime being filed in the Philippines.What is stated in section 33a of Republic Act 8792?
Answer: Section 33a of Republic Act 8792 states that
"Hacking or crackling with refers to unauthorized access into or interference in a computer system/server or information and communication system; or any access in order to corrupt, alter, steal, or destroy using a computer or other similar information and communication devices, without the knowledge and consent of the owner of the computer or information and communications system, including the introduction of computer viruses and the like, resulting in the corruption, destruction, alteration, theft or loss of electronic data messages or electronic documents shall be punished by a minimum fine of One Hundred Thousand pesos (P 100,000.00) and a maximum commensurate to the damage incurred and a mandatory imprisonment of six (6) months to three (3) years;"
Question: In Visayas State University, there is an office that deals with protecting the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of those who publish their intellectual output works. What is this office that caters with IPR concerns? Who is the head of this office?
Answer: In Visayas State University, the office that caters with IPR concerns is the Office of the Director of Research and Extension(ODREx) headed by Dr. Othello B. Capuno.
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