Cyber Flirt Essay

1.0 INTRODUCTION
Cyber security Malaysia nowadays alert to public about the dangers of ‘Cyber flirts’. Cyber flirt are the trend of cyber blackmail scam where the victim is targeted on social networking site. Flirting known as behave in a sexual way to attract men and women and flirting usually happen in technology environment which known as cyber flirting. Cyber flirt can be defined in various ways. According to Downey and Vitulli (1987), flirting can be defined in two ways which is one implies an existing relationship where on or both persons are engages in maintaining some suggestion or expectation of intimacy without intention of increasing its level or allowing some type of consummation and the other one refer to simply to the initial actions one takes to convey message of interest or attraction. Furthermore, according to Feinberg (1996), flirting involve teasing and communication because flirting transmits in hidden message that have the same meaning as teasing while communication was very important to make someone become intimate. The victim of cyber flirts was targeted on social network

This act was developed for offense related to misuse of computer. By having the act for misuse of computer will make the government refer to the act if there is any case in Malaysia. In Computer Crime Act 1997 there are three section which is preliminary, offences and ancillary and general provisions. If there is any unauthorized access to computer material will refer to section 3 and a person guilty offence in this section will get penalty not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both. Lastly, if the person unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offence will be liable to fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment of a term not exceeding ten years or to