CONTEMPORARY CYBERCRIMES, FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM AND THE PROTECTION OF CRITICAL NATIONAL SECURITY ASSESTS / INFRASTRUCTURE

Contemporary issues in cybercrimes fight against terrorism and the protection of critical national infrastructure seem to be germane in modern times. Cyber crimes and terrorism are antidote to the human society. This malady has a negative impacts and consequences in all form of cyber criminality whether it be fraud, malware, hacking, piracy, online crime, and child abuse, computer networks including stalking, identity theft, phishing, scams, and information warfare. The danger and risk associated with cybercrime is immense and horrible. The challenges has become a national pandemic across human society. The continuous and increased of cyber and digital crimes use for critical evidence and investigation towards the preservation, collection, validation identification,analysis, interpretation and presentation of digital evidence derived from digital reconstruction of events found to be helping to facilitate the authorized action to be disruptive. Researcher employed documentary secondary methods, survey based secondary data and multiple sources of data to obtain useful information. The amalgamation from these combine different secondary methods of data that have been collected for a different purpose provide valuable foundation for the research. The social implication in the human society is considered to be negative, harmful which the people suffered from cybercrimes and why the digital networking are tools target for the crime and all form of anti- social behaviour. The findings and the results revealed that scientific technology and modern gadget should be deploy to combat these ugly phenomenon. In conclusion, all activities related to cyber criminality and cybercrimes as well as cyber security are social evil and should be discouraged and sanctioned. Therefore, the paper recommends that the modern gadget and tools should be encouraged. Also, there should be a collaboration between trained security personnel's and experts to combat these menace on cybercrimes and to enhance national security.