Cyber bullying
Cyber bullying is defined in three definitions in legal glossaries. The
three in general, are as follows:
Actions that use technologies and communication to use repeated, hostile
behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm and abuse another
or others.
Actions that are in support of communication technologies, that have the
sole intention of harming another person or persons.
use of internet service and mobile devices such as web pages and
discussion groups, as well as instant messaging or sms text messaging with the
intention of harming another person.
Spam
Spam is a method to electronically communicate a bulk of
messages to a mass audience. This use is commonly known through E-mail
messaging.
There are other forms of spam which are known as instant
messaging spam, web search engine spam, Blog spam, mobile phone messaging spam,
forum spam and social networking spam. These are just a few of the know types
of communication spam.
Phishing
Phishing Is a term used where an unauthorised user attempts
to acquire personal information from another user. This can be in the form as
passwords, credit card details, usernames and other such information.
It can be done by email with a link to a hostile site owned
by the phisers. The site will store the details that are entered and can then
be used by the phisers.
Denial of servive attacks
Is a term to describe where a method is used to block or
stop users from accessing their intended network or machine resource.
Overwhelm a site by too
many requests so server is unable to cope.
Examples are
criminal/activist, anti political groups.
