An Overview of Cyber Insecurity and Malicious Uses of Cyberspace

Abstract

Cyberspace entered in our lives for years, in all the domain areas of modern societies, since gamming and fun, from sport information to political and cultural news, scientific dissemination, governmental and public duty activities and all of these domains create a new economical and financial really. Nowadays “People and Money” are on cyberspace and these turns the focus of crime activities to cyberspace. By other side, cyberspace gives fast access from one corner of the world to other corners of the world just in a mouse click and all these with physical cover. So, cybercrime, and all the other “cybers”, like cyber security, cyber defense, cyber warfare, cyber terrorism, cyber hacktivism, or cyber spy, came to stay in the real world. The talk will overview the state of the art of the bad uses or malicious uses of cyberspace due to insecurity and benefits form cyberspace as a platform for malicious activities.