Actividad
delictiva que emplea el ciberespacio como objetivo, herramienta o medio.
Ejemplos:
fraude, suplantación de personalidad, robo, crimen organizado, etc.
Cybercrime commonly refers
to a broad range of different criminal activities where computers and
information systems are involved either as a primary tool or as a primary
target. Cybercrime comprises traditional offences (e.g. fraud, forgery, and
identity theft), content-related offences (e.g. on-line distribution of child
pornography or incitement to racial hatred) and offences unique to computers
and information systems (e.g. attacks against information systems, denial of
service and malware). [CSS
EU:2013]
The term `cybersecurity
crime' means--
(A) a crime under a Federal
or State law that involves
(i)
efforts to deny access to or degrade, disrupt, or destroy a system or network;
(ii)
efforts to gain unauthorized access to a system or network; or
(iii)
efforts to exfiltrate information from a system or network without
authorization; or
(B) the violation of a
provision of Federal law relating to computer crimes, including a violation of
any provision of title 18, United States Code, created or amended by the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-474).
Cyber Intelligence Sharing
and Protection Act. H.R. 624. 2013.
criminal activity
where services or applications in the Cyberspace are used for or are the target
of a crime, or where the Cyberspace is the source, tool, target, or place of a
crime [ISO-27032:2012]
Any crime where information
and communications technology is:
·
used as a
tool in the commission of an offence
·
the target
of an offence
·
a storage
device in the commission of an offence.
In New Zealand some of the
most common examples of cyber crime include fraud, identity theft and organised
crime.
[CSS NZ:2011]
is the use of cyberspace for
criminal purposes as defined by national or international law.
Russia-U.S. Bilateral On
Cybersecurity Critical Terminology Foundations, Apr. 2011.
Also known as computer
crime, cybercrime refers to any crime that involves a networked (e.g. connected
to the internet) computer.
PC Security Handbook, Rich Robinson