These crimes are committed by a select group of criminals. While crimes using computers only as tools do not require too much technical knowledge to execute, these crimes do. These crimes are relatively new, having been in existence for only as long as computers have - which explains how unprepared society and the world in general is.

Network intrusion is akin to stealthily breaking into someone’s house in the dead of the night. This technique is usually employed by very technically savvy criminals with a perfectly clear purpose in mind – they know exactly what they are looking for and know exactly how to get it. Statistics may give us an idea about how much money is stolen each year by hackers but who knows how much personal and confidential data is being stolen daily?
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If a network intrusion is analogous to breaking into a house at night, then a network attack is akin to demolishing the entire house with a bomb and then escaping with all the debris that can be salvaged. Understandably, this technique is more likely to be used by less tech-savvy criminals who are more interested in damaging their targets than benefiting from them and do not have very clear aims. Many companies have lost millions as a result of their networks being destroyed.
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Be afraid, be very afraid, for malware is capable of inflicting serious damages to your computer. Malware is an abbreviation of the term malicious software. There are quite a few different varieties of them, but whatever they are, their primary intention is to damage your computer system.
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The Internet offers anonymity to terrorists, enabling them to operate silently, without making the authourities suspicious. Here in lies the danger of cyberterrorism.
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Defacement of a website is very similar to vandalising. Its perpertrator may have many motives behind such an action, such as revenge or an expression of hatred.
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