Essay On Cable Theft

2.1 Cable Theft

2.1.1 Fraud Fraud can be defined as the likelihood of malicious activities that have been caused by illegal use of confidential data, abuse of authority, false activities related to cables or any malicious activity [8]. In [9], the fraud has been described as a subsection of threats that intends to deceive individuals within an environment which include the cable infrastructure, financial, committing illegal activities or any individual gain.

2.1.2 Physically Steal Cables Physically stealing of cables occurs within various environments which prevent cable infrastructure from proper functioning and transmission of data. Hence, stealing of cable infrastructure experienced might cause loss of lives and financial losses [10]. In [11], it has been reported that thieves target most vulnerable location of cable infrastructure which might lead to accidents and loss of lives. Cable theft can further cause massive damage if not addressed on the

Cables theft had a negative effect on major Transnet infrastructure including railway infrastructure. The absence of cables on railway infrastructure cost collision between various trains which led to injuries, delays and loss of lives of commuters. In [11], it was stated that cable theft remained a pain, contributes huge number of theft incidents and vandalism throughout its network. A total 1 506 incidents of theft and vandalism occurred during in 2009/2010 financial year, and Transnet had been regularly losing more copper cable through criminals. Figure 2 shows summary cost of copper cable theft experienced by Transnet between 2006 and end January 2012. Figure 2 Summary cost of copper cable theft experienced by Transnet between 2006 and end January