Computer crimes encountered among the selected companies in Metro Manila, Philippines

• Main Author: Ong, Harvey T.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Computer crimes—Philippines—Metro Manila; Computer Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8861
• Institution: De La Salle University

One major ethical issues related to IT and IS is property and accessibility to information. There are numerous threats to information security, which includes internet attacks, management failures, natural disasters, deliberate acts, man-made disasters, technical failures and unintentional acts. The objective of the study is to identify and describe the threats to Information System and computer crimes encountered by the selected top corporations in Metro Manila, Philippines. This study can help companies avoid legal problems, and practice intellectual property which is the intangible property created by individuals or corporations that are protected under trade secret, patent and copyright laws. The research design used was descriptive. The data gathered (survey and interview results) from the respondent companies will be used for analysis. Based on the data gathered (survey and interview results) from the 58 respondent companies which was used to discuss the threat to IS and computer crimes that had been encountered by them, the proponent found out that most common intellectual property related to IS usually deals with software, like copyright violation is a major problem for software vendors. Based on the findings, 27 out of 58 companies (or 46.55 %) mentioned that their computer crime experience was unauthorized access to computer files. 25 out of 58 respondents (or 43.10%) mentioned data communications fraud. 19 out of 58 respondents (or 32.76 %) mentioned about unlawful copying of copyrighted software. 18 companies (or 31.03%) mentioned credit card fraud, and 2 out of 58 companies (or 3.45%) mentioned others.