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INTERNET SECURITY ACTS
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Abstract
Cyber crime is emerging as a serious threat. World wide governments, police departments and intelligence units have started to react. Initiatives to curb cross border cyber threats are taking shape.
Indian police has initiated special cyber cells across the country and have started educating the personnel. This article is an attempt to provide a glimpse on cyber crime in India.
This article is based on various reports from news media and news portal. Key words Cyber crime, Hacking, Phishing, Vishing, Cyber squatting
Preface
With the advent of the Internet, vast repertoire of information is available at the click of the mouse. Information dissemination, e-business, interactive and collaborative computing, access to mind-boggling quantum of reference material, etc are possible thanks to the Internet.
In more than one way the Internet has revolutionized the marketplace. Today, electronic commerce is a reality and online trading is thriving with more and more people choosing the Internet as a medium for purchasing products and services.
While the Internet has opened up a world of opportunities in e-commerce and information sharing, on the flip side the Internet has its own threats and abuses which are perpetrated by a new breed of criminals known as cyber criminals.
Human ingenuity is so resourceful with every technological revolution that the local crook & the conman just went global and digital…graduated to a different plane with the advent of the Internet. Criminals just shifted to the cyberspace conning people by committing cyber crimes.
Just as you would know that our world is unsafe and criminals lurk in dark alleys, in the cyber space too criminals lurk and the danger is all the more high with new and novel methods employed by cyber criminals.
With the Internet being touted as no one being incharge and one can do whatever one wants, cyber criminals started having a field day with a range of crimes like cyber terrorism, cyber stalking, cyber warfare, website defacement, attacks on web servers, stealing critical information, exposing and stealing confidential data, hacking, invading your privacy, software piracy & copyright issues, etc
A cyber crime involves your:
• Information security
• Identity
• Privacy
• Money
They are the much-prized targets and as such they are under constant threat.
The second part of this book gives a brief overview of the various cyber laws that are in place in the United States of America.
The high rate of incidence & frequency with which the cyber crimes occur have made law makers all over the world to sit up and take notice. Cyber-savvy nations concerned about their netizens’ online safety have come with a slew of legislations to bring the perpetrators to book.