skulduggery, also skullduggery skul-DUG-uh-ree, noun:
Devious, dishonest, or unscrupulous behavior or activity; also: an instance thereof.

Laptop theft was the third most common electronic skulduggery, behind viruses (84 percent) and unauthorized employee use of computers and software (78 percent), according to the survey by the Computer Security Institute in San Francisco.

--Michael Cooper, "Low Tech Joins the Fight Against High-Tech Theft," New York Times, April 23, 1998

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