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    Cybercrime involves using computers to facilitate illegal activities such as fraud, intellectual property theft, hacking, and privacy violations. Common types of cybercrime include hacking computer systems without permission, phishing which uses deception to steal personal information, email bombing which overloads email servers, cyber stalking which uses the internet to stalk and harass victims, and identity theft which involves stealing someone's identity to access financial and other accounts. Cybercrime has grown as computers and the internet have become central to many aspects of modern life.

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    Cybercrime involves using computers to facilitate illegal activities such as fraud, intellectual property theft, hacking, and privacy violations. Common types of cybercrime include hacking computer systems without permission, phishing which uses deception to steal personal information, email bombing which overloads email servers, cyber stalking which uses the internet to stalk and harass victims, and identity theft which involves stealing someone's identity to access financial and other accounts. Cybercrime has grown as computers and the internet have become central to many aspects of modern life.

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    Cybercrime involves using computers to facilitate illegal activities such as fraud, intellectual property theft, hacking, and privacy violations. Common types of cybercrime include hacking computer systems without permission, phishing which uses deception to steal personal information, email bombing which overloads email servers, cyber stalking which uses the internet to stalk and harass victims, and identity theft which involves stealing someone's identity to access financial and other accounts. Cybercrime has grown as computers and the internet have become central to many aspects of modern life.

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    CYBER CRIMES

    Cybercrime also called computer crime, the use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends,
    such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities,
    or violating privacy. Cybercrime, especially through the Internet, has grown in importance as the
    computer has become central to commerce, entertainment, and government.

    TYPES OF CYBER CRIME:

    1. Hacking: In simple words, hacking is an act committed by an intruder by accessing your


    computer system without your permission. Hackers (the people doing the ‘hacking’) are
    basically computer programmers, who have an advanced understanding of computers and
    commonly misuse this knowledge for devious reasons. They’re usually technology buffs who
    have expert-level skills in one particular software program or language. As for motives, there
    could be several, but the most common are pretty simple and can be explained by a human
    tendency such as greed, fame, power, etc. Some people do it purely to show-off their expertise
    – ranging from relatively harmless activities such as modifying software (and even hardware) to
    carry out tasks that are outside the creator’s intent, others just want to cause destruction.

    2. Phishing: This technique of extracting confidential information such as credit card numbers and
    username password combos by masquerading as a legitimate enterprise. Phishing is typically
    carried out by email spoofing. You’ve probably received email containing links to legitimate
    appearing websites. You probably found it suspicious and didn’t click the link. Smart move. Not
    all phishing is done via email or web sites. Vishing (voice phishing) involves calls to victims using
    fake identity fooling you into considering the call to be from a trusted organisation. They may
    claim to be from a bank asking you to dial a number (provided by VoIP service and owned by
    attacker) and enter your account details. Once you do that, your account security is
    compromised.

    3. E-mail bombing and spamming: Email bombing is characterised by an abuser sending huge
    volumes of email to a target address resulting in victim’s email account or mail servers crashing.
    The message is meaningless and excessively long in order to consume network resources. If
    multiple accounts of a mail server are targeted, it may have a denial-of-service impact. Such mail
    arriving frequently in your inbox can be easily detected by spam filters. Email bombing is
    commonly carried out using botnets (private internet connected computers whose security has
    been compromised by malware and under the attacker’s control) as a DDoS attack.

    4. Cyber Stalking: Cyber stalking is a new form of internet crime in our society when a person is
    pursued or followed online. A cyber stalker doesn’t physically follow his victim; he does it
    virtually by following his online activity to harvest information about the stalkee and harass him
    or her and make threats using verbal intimidation. It’s an invasion of one’s online privacy. Cyber
    stalking uses the internet or any other electronic means and is different from offline stalking, but
    is usually accompanied by it. Most victims of this crime are women who are stalked by men and
    children who are stalked by adult predators and pedophiles. Cyber stalkers thrive on
    inexperienced web users who are not well aware of netiquette and the rules of internet safety.
    A cyber stalker may be a stranger, but could just as easily be someone you know.

    5. Identity theft and credit card frauds: Identity theft occurs when someone steals your identity
    and pretends to be you to access resources such as credit cards, bank accounts and other
    benefits in your name. The imposter may also use your identity to commit other crimes. “Credit
    card fraud” is a wide ranging term for crimes involving identity theft where the criminal uses
    your credit card to fund his transactions. Credit card fraud is identity theft in its simplest form.
    The most common case of credit card fraud is your pre-approved card falling into someone
    else’s hands.

    Some other types of cybercrimes are: (a) Internet fraud, (b) File sharing and piracy, (c) Denial of service
    attacks, (d)Sabotaging government websites, (e)spreading hate and inciting terrorism.

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