With the evolution of cyber crimes, the risk of being a victim of a cyber crime has increased significantly as the world continues to become more digital than ever before. Shutterstock If you find yourself, or someone you know to have become a victim of cyber crime, it is important to act immediately by doing the following: Contact your local police department to file a report of the crime. Report the crime to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at...

Types of Computer Crimes: (Roch et al., 2022) 1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2. Identity Theft, Identity Fraud, Financial Fraud, Financial Theft and “Deepfakes” a. Gaining access to personal and financial information to use it. b. Uses photos and videos of individuals to create other photos, videos, and even audio to impersonate someone - using AI (Merriam-Webster, 2026) 3. Ransom a. Uses malware to encrypt data to use for money in order to get it back. 4. Phishing a. Ema

The year is 1834, the telegraph is doing the impossible, transmitting data across vast distances, France's government builds a network of towers to relay messages across the country. Two brothers in Bordeaux are bond traders looking for an advantage over their local competition who are waiting on mail that takes days to arrive from Paris to update market data. The brothers, realizing the opportunity, bribed a government worker for one of the tower relays to hide stock market