Cybercrime

 

The new technologies permit short-term benefits, free access, easier communication with people all over the world, and immediate information. But some of those who claim the advantages of the Internet forget to take in consideration reliability and caution.

That’s why the development of new technologies and communication networks contributed to the growth of cybercrime, which means commiting crimes using the Internet. It can also be called “computer crime”, “e-crime”, “hi-tech crime” or “electronic crime”.

Cybercrime includes many activties, like illegal access, steamling information from websites, causing damage to a computer, hacking, cyberterrorism… Let’s talk about cybertorrism.

Cyberterrorism is the convergence of terrorism and cyberspace. As the Internet developed and expanded, the cyberspace has appeared as an effective tool to attack, threaten or intimidate a government or its citizens. The advantage of the Internet for cybertorrists is that it offers them anonymity. One of the other advantages is that there isn’t any risk to be captured, injured or killed, because it’s virtual, there are not physically present. Internet permits them to reach many people because of the increasing number of Internet users.

If you’re interested by the subject and if you want to learn more about the ways to fight against cybercrime, you can visit the website of the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property section of the United States. On this website, you will find the latest press releases about cybercrime.

And this is one interesting article written by the BBC’s desk about the subject.

 

But cybercrime can include many other practices, like identity theft for example. I’ve told about identity theft in this article.