CYBER CRIMES
Cyber Crimes use computers and networks for criminal activities. Computers can be used for committing a crime in one of the following three ways
1. As a tool 2. As a target 3. Both as a tool and a target
CYBER CRIMES
A partial list of cyber crimes are as follows; 1. Hacking of computer systems and networks 2. Cyber pornography involving production and distribution of pornographic material, including child pornography 3. Financial crimes such as siphoning of money from banks, credit card frauds, money laundering
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4. Online Gambling
5. Intellectual property crimes such as theft of computer source code, software piracy, copyright infringement, trademark violations 6. Harassments such as cyber stalking, cyber defamation, indecent and abusing mails 7. Cyber frauds such as forgery of documents including currency and any other documents
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Launching of virus, worms and Trojans
9. Denial-of-service attacks
10. Cyber attacks and cyber terrorism
11. Economic espionage
12. Consumer harassment and consumer protection
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13. Privacy of citizens
14. Sale of illegal articles such as narcotics, weapons, wildlife, etc
Cyber crimes that can generally occur within organizations are as follows;
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1. E-mail abuse
2. Spam mails
3. Cyber defamation
4. Theft of source code
5. Exchange of business secrets and documents
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6. Insider attacks on personal database 7. Use of office computer for running other business
8. Transmission and viewing of pornographic materials
9. External cyber attacks on an organization resulting in denial-of-service 10. Information espionage