A Brief History Of Cyber Crime [extract]
A Brief History Of Cyber Crime
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As technology advances it brings many benefits, from increased productivity and efficiency to enhanced communications and cost reductions, but with advances in technology inevitably come heightened risks with cybercrime, which has exploded in recent times. Cybercrime is one of the largest and globally most active forms of crime.
Not least because the Internet is available all the time and visible to everyone, and that of course involves risks. Committing a crime via a computer or other device that is connected to the Internet is less risky for the perpetrator, because the identity of the perpetrator is difficult to find out.
Technically, the first cyber attack happened in France well before the Internet was even invented, in 1834. Two attackers stole financial market information by accessing the French telegraph system and they stole data. Many experts consider this event the first cybercrime, followed by other cybercrimes, each focusing on newly invented technologies.
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