Saturday, 19 March 2011

Types of CyberCrime

CyberCrime have many types and the crime is increasing every days causing harms to victims. Any crime that involved using computer or network is a CyberCrime.

Types of CyberCrime
1. Hacking - mean illegal access into a computer system without the permission of the computer owner/user

2. Denial of Service Attack - mean floods the bandwidth of the victim’s network or fills his e-mail box with spam mail stopping of the services heiis entitled to access

3. Virus Dissemination - mean malicious software that attachesiitself to other software and do harm

4. Software Piracy - mean illegal copying of genuine programs

5. Credit Card Fraud - mean your credit card identity has been stolen for misuse, for example identity theft

6. Net Extortion - mean copying company private and confidential data

7. Phising -  mean a technique for pulling out company like bank private and confidential informations

8. Spoofing - mean a computer that pretend to have identity of another computer

9. Cyber Defamation - mean posts insulting matters on a website

10. Threatening - mean send threatening emails

11. Salami Attack - mean make a program that can deduct small amounts of money from other people bank accounts to his own bank account without being noticed

There will be a lots more new cybercrime from time to time.

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