Cybercrime

The advances in information and communication technologies are fully integrated into our daily lives and have transformed how we do business, how we manage our finances, shop, communicate with each other and live our daily lives. As technology advances, so do the methods adopted by criminals who seek to exploit gaps in technology security for their own gain.

Cybercrime is on the increase and as a consequence, cybercrime and cybersecurity receive increasing attention by businesses and individuals and are allocated higher importance and investment by government and businesses, including the creation of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as the UK’s authority on the cybersecurity environment, sharing knowledge, addressing systemic vulnerabilities and providing leadership on key national cyber security issues.

But what is meant by ‘cybercime’?

Cybercrime is a crime that has some kind of computer or cyber aspect to it and it takes shape in a variety of different forms. According to the government’s National Cyber Security Strategy, cybercrime comprises two interrelated categories of crime—cyber-dependent crime and cyber-enabled crime.

Cyber-dependent crime are crimes that can be committed only through the use of information and communications technology (ICT)