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How bad is the problem of elder abuse and law violations in America’s assisted living facilities? Well, it’s not as bad as many of the scary reports from 60-minutes and made for TV expose shows seem to indicate. Still, as well run as most of these facilities are, there are indeed, still questionable outfits running substandard locations.According to a Forbes Magazine Article; “The Old Folks Home; Assisted living centers are a fine way to care for the aged, but finding a good one isn’t a snap. Here’s how to look,” published on December 12, 2005 and written by Mark Tatge; it was noted that there is still quite a bit of crime against seniors out there, much of which goes unreported. There were numerous examples in the article of jewelry, credit cards, and valuable belongings being stolen from elderly assisted living residents.

Everyone who works on a computer must be familiar with the term“Cyber Crime”. Initially, when man invented computer and then the technology for communicating between computers was evolved, he would have never thought that the cyber space he is creating could be flooded with any crime i.e.

cyber crime. But now almost all of us might have heard the term computer crime, cyber crime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime which is nothing but an activity done with a criminal intent in cyber space. Simply put, it is an activity which is generally criminal in nature, where a computer or network is the source, tool, target, or place of a crime. To say in one line, “Cyber crime” refers to all the activities done with criminal intent in cyberspace.Such crime involves an information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system), data interference (unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data), systems interference (interfering with the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data), misuse of devices, forgery (ID theft), and electronic fraud.