CYBERCRIME

First of all, What is cybercrime?

• A Cybercrime is a It´s an illegal action that is carried out in the Internet because of the widespread use of new technologies everywhere (economy, culture, industry, science, education, information, communication, etc.) and the increasing number of users.

How does people on the Internet commit crimes?

Mainly, they use:

• Anonymity 
• Personal information stored in the digital environment.

Main crimes on the Internet environment 

Fraud:

This crime is generally committed through phishing or identity theft, in which criminals use spam, fake websites and other techniques to trick people into obtaining passwords and thus access confidential information.

Child pornography, sexting and staking:

• Sexting: consists of sending images or text messages with sexual content to other people through mobile phones. Although in itself this act is not illegal, when it comes to minors or when the adult does not consent to that activity, it constitutes a criminal offense.

• Harassment or stalking: occurs when there is a person who watches, persecutes, and contacts another through electronic means, seriously altering the development of the child's daily life and limiting their freedom to act.

Revelation and discovery of secrets:

This type of computer crime directly affects the privacy of documents and conversations secrets of legal entities. Within this group of crimes are:

• Violation of the secrecy of communications.
• Illegal interception of personal communications.
• Use and modification of personal data without consent.
• Illegal access to data and computer systems.
• Dissemination of data, discovered facts or illicitly captured images.
• Other of the most common crimes are threats and coercion and documentary forgery.