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
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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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1. 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