What is Cyber Crimes in India?
Cyber crime includes any criminal act doing with computers and networks called hacking. Additionally, cyber crime also contains traditional crimes behavior through the Internet. For example; telemarketing and Internet fraud, hate crimes, identity theft, and credit card account thefts are measured to be cyber crimes when the illegal actions are dedicated through the utilize of a computer and the Internet.
Cyber Crimes which are increasing day by day, it is very hard to find out what is actually a cyber crime and what is the predictable crime so to come out of this confusion, some of the cyber crimes can be classified as:
There are certain offences which affect the character of individuals can be clear as:
• Cyber-Stalking: It means expressed or implied a physical threat that generates fear through the use to computer technology such as phones, text messages, internet, e-mail, webcam, websites or videos.
• Harassment via E-Mails: It is very common type of annoyance through sending letters, attachments of files & folders i.e. via e-mails. At present harassment is common as usage of social sites i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc. increasing day by day.
• Child Pornography: It engages the use of computer networks to make, distribute, or way in materials that sexually exploit underage children Internet Phishing: Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
• Hacking: It way unauthorized control/access over computer system and act of hacking completely destroys the whole data as well as computer programmes. Hackers usually hacks telecommunication and mobile network.
• E-Mail Spoofing: A spoofed e-mail may be said to be one, which misrepresents its origin. It shows origin to be different from which in point of fact it originates.
• Dissemination of Obscene Material: It includes Indecent exposure/ Pornography (basically child pornography), hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials. These obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or corrupt their mind.
• Virus: Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network. They usually affect the data on a computer, either by altering or deleting it. Worm attacks plays major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals.
• Cyber Squatting: It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of by means of it before the other or using something parallel to that previously. For example two similar names i.e. www.google.com and www.gogle.com.
• Distribution of pirated software: It means distributing pirated software from one computer to another intending to destroy the data and official records of the government.
• Cyber Terrorism: Cyber terrorism is a major burning issue in the domestic as well as global concern. The common form of these terrorist attacks on the Internet is by distributed denial of service attacks, hate websites and hate e-mails, attacks on sensitive computer networks etc. Cyber terrorism activities endanger the sovereignty and integrity of the nation.
• Possession of Unauthorized Information: It is very easy to access any information by the terrorists with the aid of internet and to possess that information for political, religious, social, ideological objectives.
• Cyber Vandalism: Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of another. Thus cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network service is stopped or isrupted. It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm done to the computer of any person. These acts may take the form of the theft of a computer, some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer.
Source: http://psrcentre.org/images/extraimages/IJHAS024054.pdf
