CYBERCRIME

Cybercrime is a term used to describe criminal activities that involve the use of the Internet.

From the illegal download of movies, of music to the illegal use of datas such as the personnal ones that people put on the Internet, for instance the date of birth with can be use for social security, cybercrime is widespread and hardly punished, since it is very difficult to identify the cybercriminals . Spamming can also belong to the cybercriminal activities. Those activities need a very good knowledge of the internet. This means that there are a lot of types of cybercrimes and of cybercriminals.

There are also other kind of cybercrimes, such as the diffusion of pornographic pictures, of terrorists adverts. These psychologic cybercriminals are also very hard to identify.

The main difficulty in cybercriminality is that a cybercriminal can be very different from another. And, in a worldwide context of technologies that change very fast, and where a lot of people have difficulties to identify what is cybercrime and what is not, this question remains a very important one, that will need more and more needs to be tackled.