Question

Define and provide examples of Cyber Crimes.

Answer 1

Cyber-crime: Cyber-crime is defined as a crime where a computer is used to do an illegal activity over the internet. Cyber-criminals may use internet technologies to access personal information such as name, contact details address, etc. Cyber-crime also includes non-monetary offenses such as distributing viruses on the other computers by using the internet.

Examples of Cyber-crime:

There are so many examples of Cyber-crime but here I am listed a few of them.

1. Identity Theft: In which the hackers and scammers may use a program to track what the user types on his computer and once they got the personal information such as password, id, and after getting these details they make an offenses.
2. Hacking: In which hackers hack the user computer illegally through the help of the internet.

There are some more examples which are listed below:

• Virus distribution.
• Denial-of-Service attack
• Phishing
• Data theft.