5 CYBER CRIMES--Part 1 Crime 1

5 CYBER CRIMES--Part 1 Crime 1

There are literally a dozen ways in which a cyber crime can be perpetrated, and you need to know what they are:

First Crime---> Hacking ( Well most of us know about it already, but still it counts )

In simple words, hacking is an act committed by an intruder by accessing your computer system without your permission. Hackers are basically computer programmers with extensive knowledge and understanding of computers and commonly misuse this knowledge for devious reasons. They're usually technology buffs who have expert-level ( god mode for those who play God Of War ) skills in one particular software program or language.
As far as their motives are concerned they can be explained by a human tendency such as greed, fame, power, et cetera. Some people do it purely to show off there expertise - ranging from relatively harmless activities such as modifying software ( sometimes even hardware ) to carry out tasks that are outside the creator's intent, others just want to cause destruction.

Greed and sometimes voyeuristic tendencies may cause a hacker to break into systems to steal personal banking information, a corporation's financial data et cetera. They also try and modify systems so hat they can execute tasks at their whims. Hackers displaying such destructive conduct are also called "Crackers" at times. They are also called "Black Hat" Hackers.

On the other hand there are those who develop an interest in computer hacking just out of intellectual curiosity. Some companies hire such people to tell them the loopholes in their security systems. These people are called "White Hat" Hackers.

"Grey Hat" another term is used to refer to hacking activities that are a cross between black and white hat hacking.

Some oft the most famous computer geniuses were once hackers who went on to use their skills for constructive technological development. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, the creators of UNIX operating system (Predecessor of Linux), were two of them. Shawn Fanning, the developer of Napster, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame, and many more are also examples.

Mark Zuckerberg

Shawn Fanning

So, there are 3 types of hacking in general:

1. SQL Injections;
2. Theft of FTP Passwords;
3. Cross-Site Scripting (also known as XSS not to be confused with CSS)

The 11 other crimes would be posted later, as you people know the author (that is me...!), is very lazy...