Cyber defamation:
Any derogatory statement, which is designed to injure a person's business or reputation, constitutes cyber defamation. Defamation can be accomplished as libel or slander. Cyber defamation occurs when defamation takes place with the help of computers and / or the Internet. E.g. someone publishes defamatory matter about someone on a website or sends e-mails containing defamatory information to all of that person's friends.
Threatening:
The Criminal sends threatening email or comes in contact in chat rooms with victim. (Any one disgruntled may do this against boss, friend or official).
Salami Attacks:
This is basically related to finance and therefore the main victims of this crime are the financial institutions. This attack has a unique quality that the alteration is so insignificant that in a single case it would go completely unnoticed. E.g. a bank employee inserts a program whereby a meager sum of Rs 3 is deducted from random customer’s account periodically and transferred to a specific account for personal gains. Such a small amount will not be noticeable at all.
Sale of Narcotics:
Sale & Purchase of narcotics through net. There are web site which offers sale and shipment off contrabands drugs. They may use the techniques of stenography for hiding the messages.
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