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The year ended reported a significant increase in criminal activities in the network of networks. Since the explosion of viruses such as Sobig and Blaster, to the growth of child pornography sites or international terrorism, the Internet has become an ideal space for illegal operations.

One of the characteristics of the Wold Wide Web (www) is the anonymity or the ability to disguise the origin of their activities. While police organizations around the world almost created specialized bodies to combat crime in the network, hackers and crackers are constantly looking for ways to not disclose their operating point.

According to experts, crime in the network could be divided into three groups. First, the hackers rebel attack aimed at large companies or government entities for ideological purposes. For example, the famous Blaster virus, which affected over 800 000 computers worldwide, included a message by calling Bill Gates to stop hoarding money and fix your software.

The official sites are the main target of the second type, crackers terrorists. Proof of this was the discovery made on 17 December by the U.S. space agency (NASA), as confirmed how thirteen of their websites show modifications made by outsiders to that entity, according to Government Computer News.
According to statements by a NASA spokesman, the attackers have changed the contents of the virtual spaces, forcing the institution is to leave them offline.

Also, the media attributed to “cyber terrorist attacks” blackouts last year in Canada, New York and London. According to these sources, “this type of criminal activity in the network is the greatest concern to the United States for what they have created new computer defense squads at the Pentagon, with the sole purpose of tracking and arrest suspected cyber-terrorists.”

Moreover, and perhaps most troubling, is the Cibermafia or organized crime operating in the network. In 2003 there was a sophisticated extortion to commercial sites or the cessation of excessive weight of their sites.
Issuers such as the BBC explained that these new criminals have been released to conquer cyberspace with sites hijacking of commercial and ransom demands of tens of thousands of dollars.

According to experts from the British Crime Unit Technology, this new type of attacks has increased substantially in recent weeks. The blows, increasingly frequent, consist in adding excessive weight to the Web sites of different companies, which are completely paralyzed. After being released, those responsible for the page are ordered to pay large sums of money to keep the site stops again.

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