What are Cybercrimes

£ Cyber-terrorism', 'information warfare', 'phishing', 'spams', 'denial of service attacks', 'hacktivism', 'hate crime', 'identity thefts', 'online gambling', plus the criminal exploitation of a new generation of pornographic peccadilloes, comprise the new language which describes the criminal and harmful behaviours that are conspiring to degrade the overall quality of life online and beyond. In so doing they pose significant threats to public safety and are tempering significantly broader commercial and governmental ambitions to develop the information society. entirely new global opportunities (e.g., global frauds and deceptions, also the global trade in pornographic materials including child pornography). Take away the internet in this case and the behaviour continues by other means, but not with such great prevalence or across such a wide span of jurisdictions and cultures. At the far end, however, lie the 'true' cybercrimes which are solely the product of opportunities created by the Internet and which can only be perpetrated within cyberspace (they include intellectual property thefts, spams, phishing and other forms of