Cybercrime... some informations
If you make a quick research on the internet, you will see that Cybercrime is an increasing phenomenom on the web.Wikipedia gives this definition of cybercrime : "criminal activity in which computers or networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity. These categories are not exclusive and many activities can be characterized as falling in one or more categories.
Although the term cybercrime is usually restricted to describing criminal activity in which the computer or network is an essential part of the crime. This term is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enalbe the illicit activity.”
To highlight this definition, here is some examples of cybercrime in which the computer or network is a tool of the criminal activity :
- spamming : that’s the result of a non respect of the data privicy low
- peer-to-peer, and especially P2P networks such as emule, eDonkey,....

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