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cybercrime

 also known as computer crime

Any use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. Cybercrime, especially through the Internet, has grown in importance as the computer has become central to commerce, entertainment, and government. The international nature of cybercrimes has led to international cyberlaws.

cybercrime
Crimes perpetrated over the Internet, typically having to do with online fraud. See cybercrook and cyberextortion.
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While the Cybercrime Convention does not address cyberspace attacks as possible acts of war and instead focuses on criminal acts, it does help establish a framework for a new methodology of analyzing cyberspace attacks.
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Council of Europe of the Cybercrime Convention (2001).
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