With the advancement of technology, man has become dependent on the Internet for all his requirements. The Internet has provided the man an easy access to everything while sitting at one place. One can do functions such as social networking, online shopping, storing data, gaming, studying online, online jobs, every other possible thing which a man can think of could be done through the internet.
With the development of the internet and its benefits , an increase in cyber crimes is also observed. Cyber crimes are committed in various forms.
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Cyber Crimes
Cyber crime could be defined as a crime or an unlawful act committed with the use of a computer or internet. Cyber crimes in India, can also be defined as unauthorised access to a certain computer system without permission from the rightful owner or a place of criminal activity such as phishing, DoS (Denial of Service) attack, online transaction fraud, credit card fraud, cyber defamation, child pornography, etc.
Different types of Cyber Crimes
The different kinds of cyber crimes are:
Unauthorised Access and Hacking
Unauthorised access could be understood as any type of access without the permission of the rightful owner or person in charge of the respective computer, computer system or computer network. Hacking can be understood as an illegal intrusion into the computer system or network. Some hackers hack with the intention of personal monetary gains, such as stealing credit card information, transferring money from various bank accounts to their own account followed by withdrawal of money. Government websites are the most targeted sites for the hackers.
Web Hijacking
Web hijacking could be understood as taking forceful control of the website of another person, where the owner of the website would lose control over his website and its content.
Pornography
Pornography is the exhibition of sexual content. Definition of pornography includes pornographic websites, magazines produced using computers as well as internet pornography delivered over mobile phones.
Child Pornography
The Internet is being used as a medium to sexually abuse children nowadays. Children nowadays have easy access to the internet, using which paedophiles sexually exploit children by either using them as sexual objects or taking their pornographic pictures to sell those over the internet.
Cyber Stalking
Stalking could be referred to as the repeated act of harassment targeting the victim in ways by following the victim, harassment through phone calls, harming the victim in numerous ways such as by killing the victims pet, or vandalising the property of the victims, sending written messages or objects. In some cases, stalking may lead to serious violent acts such as physical harm to the victim.
Denial of Service Attack
These attacks are designed to bring the network crashing down by overflowing it with useless traffic. For all known DoS attacks, software fixes are there which system administrators could install to limit the damage caused by the attacks. However, like Virus, new DoS attacks are constantly being dreamed up by Hackers.
Software Piracy
Software piracy could be understood as illegal copying of some genuine programs or counterfeiting and distributing products with an intention of passing them for the original. Such crimes include copyright infringement, trademarks violations, theft of source code of the computer, patent violations etc.
Salami attacks
These are attacks to commit financial crimes, the important to be noticed is make the changes so small that if one looks at a single case, it won;t be noticeable Say for example, a bank deducts Rs. 2 from the account of every account holder, which may not be noticed by the customer himself, but the bank would be making a huge amount of money.
Phishing
Phishing is committed when an e-mail is falsely claiming to be from an established legitimate enterprise is sent to a user with an objective of scamming the user to surrender private information which can be used for identity theft.
Online gambling
There are several websites, hosted on foreign servers, which offer online gambling. Basically it is believed that these websites are fronts for money laundering.
Email spoofing
The term email spoofing is used when an email which appears to have originated from one source is actually sent from another source. It may cause monetary damage.
Cyber Defamation
When some defamatory matter is published about someone on a website or an e-mail is sent containing defamatory information to the friends of such a person, such an act is referred to as cyber defamation.
Conclusion
The acts mentioned above, as well as many other similar acts are there which may lead to cyber fraud. In such cases, a detailed procedure has been established by the law for the aggrieved party to initiate proceedings against the injustice committed against him/her. But, before one decides to file a complaint, it is advised to contact experienced lawyers in your own city, so as to further understand the legal provisions involved and the correct procedure to file a complaint against such crime.
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