copying and/or selling

software without the permission of the person or company who owns the copyright

flooding company websites

with service requests so that their website is overloaded and either slowed or

crashes completely

sending commercial

e-mail to a large number of addresses without the permission of the recipients

capturing data from

information packets as they travel over the network

the practice of

sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to extract

confidential data, especially security compromising information

unauthorized access to a

computer system for the fun and challenge of it

the practice of stealing

money repeatedly in extremely small quantities

unauthorized access to a

computer system for malicious purposes

unauthorized use of a

third-party domain name as the sender's name in an e-mail message in order to

gain illegal entry into a secure system