Technical aspects of cybercrime
Filip Radoniewicz · 2025
Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the technical side of computer crime, i.e., the methods used by criminals who commit cybercrimes (commonly known as hackers). It presents the categories of computer attacks, preparatory activities preceding them (e.g., port scanning, enumeration) and the most important types of them: computer eavesdropping (sniffing, man-in-the-middle attack, session hijacking and electromagnetic wave analysis), methods of cracking passwords, spoofing, social engineering, phishing, pharming, exploiting vulnerabilities (buffer overflow, SQL Injection, XSS attacks), malware (malicious software – trojans, viruses, spyware, etc.), denial of service attacks (DoS), bluejacking and bluehacking.