Cybercrime, Cyberlove, Cyberlife

The term "cybercrime" regroup all the crime made by hackers on the internet. Ther is a lot of forms. First, there are all the unauthorized access to personnal session. All the form of Hacking, the cyberterrorism and the online harassment. There are also the e-bank fraud and the identity theft (which is developped in another article of the blog). We can add on the list the virus, the trojan... and all the destruction and the theft of virtual property.

Do we have to add the case of someone who makes a crime helping by internet, for instance, tracking down the place with Google Earth, or finding his victim on the net ? All the governments take care of this subject, especially the U.S. governement, and opened a website to inform the internet users : Cybercrime.gov

Everybody can be victim of any form of cybercrime. Someone stole the number of my brother's check card. It is cybercrime, naturally less important than some cases.

To protect yourself, pay on the net with secure process or use Paypal and keep enable your antivirus and your firewall when you are surfing on the web.

We can see the statistics of the different forms of cybercrime here :