These three things happen all the time, but you might not recognize them as being cybercrimes.
Sophos Explains:
Welcome to Week 3 of National Cyber Security Awareness Month!
This week’s theme, brought to you courtesy of the National Cyber Security Alliance of US businesses and government agencies, is about recognizing and combating cybercrime.
That includes all manner of online crime, be it crooks stealing personal information for monetary gain, identity theft, or online radicalization and recruitment to terrorist networks.
It also includes things that some of us might not even realize are crimes, like guessing at passwords, using somebody else’s photo, trolling, cyberbullying or getting back at an ex by posting their intimate photos online.
Here are examples we’ve seen of such crimes, how harmful they can be, and the potential consequences in store for people who commit them.
