Cyber crime, e-crime, electronic crime, or hi-tech crime. Computer crime is an act performed by a knowledgeable computer user, sometimes referred to as a hacker that illegally browses or steals a company's or individual's private information. In some cases, this person or group of individuals may be malicious (intended to harm sb) and destroy or otherwise corrupt the computer or data files.
Computer crimes are criminal activities which involve the use of information technology to gain an illegal or unauthorized access to a computer system with the intent of damaging, deleting, or altering computer data.
Examples of computer crimes
1. Child pornography - Making or distributing child pornography. 2. Cyber terrorism - Hacking, threats, and blackmailing towards a business or person. 3. Cyberbully or Cyberstalking - Harassing others online. 4. Creating Malware - Writing, creating, or distributing malware (e.g. viruses and spyware.) 5. Denial of Service attack - Overloading a system with so many requests it cannot serve normal requests. 6. Fraud - Manipulating data, e.g. changing banking records to transfer money to an account. 7. Harvesting - Collect account or other account related information on other people. 8. Identity theft - Pretending to be someone you are not. 9. Intellectual property theft - Stealing another persons or companies intellectual property. 10. Phishing - Deceiving individuals to gain private or personal information about that person. 11. Salami slicing - Stealing tiny amounts of money from each transaction. 12. Spamming - Distributed unsolicited e-mail to dozens or hundreds of different addresses. 13. Spoofing - Deceiving a system into thinking you are someone you really are not. 14. Unauthorized access - Gaining access to systems you have no permission to access. 15. Wiretapping - Connecting a device to a phone line to listen to conversations.
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