cybercrime

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Introduction
Defining cybercrime
Types of cybercrime
- Identity theft and invasion of privacy
- Internet fraud
- ATM fraud
- Wire fraud
- File sharing and piracy
- Counterfeiting and forgery
- Child pornography
- Hacking
- Computer viruses
- Denial of service attacks
- Spam, steganography, and e-mail hacking
- Sabotage

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Another retired colonel falls into digital arrest trap, loses Rs 36 lakh • Apr. 22, 2025, 7:29 AM ET (The Indian Express)

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The FBI created a Cyber Most Wanted List in 2014 that grew to include 42 groups and individuals by 2018.
The average cost of an American corporate data breach is almost $8 million.

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Bruce Sterling

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