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What are the examples of computer crimes?

List and explain briefly examples of computer crimes.

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Maurice
(a) Pharming: This involves redirecting users to a bogus Web page, even when individual types correct Web page address into his or her browser.

(b) Phishing: This involves setting up fake Web sites or sending e-mail messages that look like legitimate businesses to ask users for confidential personal data for example, Typo pirates play on the names of famous sites to collect authentication and registration information. For example, http://www.ibm.com/shop is registered by the attacker as www.ibn.com/shop. A shopper mistypes and enters the illegitimate site and provides confidential information.

(c) Cracking: This is the illegal use of guesswork to break into a computer system to view or modify information.

(d) Hacking: This is the illegal use of a special program to break into a computer system to view, destroy or modify or collect the information.

(e) Tapping: This is the illegal use of an intelligent program like spyware to intercept information or messages of transit from one system to another in a computer network.

(f) Trespassing: This is the act of gaining access or entering into the computer room without permission to use the computer system.

(g) Piracy: This is the act of making illegal production of copies of software without owner's permission.

(h) Fraud: This is the use of a computer system to deprive or perform illegal operations such as money laundering or forgery.

(i) Industrial espionage: Spying on your competitor to get information that you can use to counter or defeat the competitor.

(j) Spoofing: Misrepresenting oneself by using fake e-mail addresses or masquerading as someone else or Redirecting Web link to address different from intended one, with site masquerading as intended destination.

(k) Denial-of-services attacks (Dos): Flooding server with thousands of false requests to crash the network.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on April 16, 2018 at 08:12

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