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The extraordinary development of information technology has obvious consequences for ''traditional'' organized crime. While the use of data processing systems and networks is undeniably a step forward for society, it also makes it more vulnerable.

Email Account Hacking
Emails are increasingly being used for social interaction, business Communication and online transactions. Most email account holders do not take basic precautions to protect their email account passwords. Cases of theft of email passwords and subsequent misuse of email accounts are becoming very common.

The scenarios
1. The victim’s email account password is stolen and the account is then misused for sending out malicious code (virus, worm, Trojan etc) to people in the victim’s address book. The recipients of these viruses believe that the email is coming from a known person and run the attachments. This infects their computers with the malicious code.

2. The victim’s email account password is stolen and the hacker tries to extort money from the victim. The victim is threatened that if he does not pay the money, the information contained in the emails will be misused. 3. The victim’s email account password is stolen and obscene emails are sent to people in the victim’s address book.

Software-piracY

What is Software Piracy ?
Software piracy is reproduction, distribution and use of software without permission of the owner of copyright. Piracy is the act of illegally copying and distributing commercial software. Software piracy can range from simply letting a friend "borrow" a CD-ROM to actually selling pirated software and passing it off as genuine. Software piracy (the illegal copying of software programs) is a worldwide problem, more than $11 billion is lost to piracy every year! Because software is valuable, and it is easy to create an exact copy of a program from a single computer, software piracy is widespread.

Effects of Software Piracy

when software is pirated, consumers, software developers, and resellers are harmed. Software piracy increases the risk consumer's computers will be corrupted by defective software and infected with viruses. Those who provide defective and illegal software do not tend to provide sales and technical support. Pirated software usually has inadequate documentation, which prevents consumers from enjoying the full benefits of the software package. In addition, consumers are unable to take advantage of technical support and product upgrades, which are typically available to legitimate registered users of the software. Pirated software can cost consumers lost time and more money.

About-softwareZ

Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer program and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. Software is the most common term used for different types of programs which are used for operation of computing devices. Software is divided into three major parts i.e.., system software (System software is computer software designed to operate the computer hardware and to provide and maintain a platform for running application software.), application software (application software is used to perform a singular or multiple related specific tasks. Some of the examples are word processors, spreadsheets, media players and database applications) and language processor (Any program whose sets of inputs and outputs each includes a program). Some of the examples of language processor are C, C++. Software can be purchased or can be downloaded as free trial. But nowadays almost all soft wares are downloadable over the internet from various web sites for public and official uses. Software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some tasks on an operating system. In Simple words you can say software is the way to perform different tasks electronically.