Cybercrime
Fraudulent and/or malicious activity conducted over the Web.
Cybercrime is a rapidly evolving growth industry which is hard to stop due to its international nature, quick implementation, the ease of covering one’s trail, and the intelligence of its perpetrators.
The major types of cybercrime are: extortion, identity theft, stock manipulation, network attacks, money laundering, illegal downloading of music and video, and the theft of government and corporate secrets.
See Password Cracker; Botnet; Virus.