| What
is Cyber Crime? |
| At the
Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment
of Offenders, cybercrime was broken into two categories and defined
thus: |
| a.
Cybercrime in a narrow sense (computer crime): Any illegal behavior
directed by means of electronic operations that targets the security
of computer systems and the data processed by them. |
| b.
Cybercrime in a broader sense (computer-related crime): Any illegal
behavior committed by means of, or in relation to, a computer system
or network, including such crimes as illegal possession [and] offering
or distributing information by means of a computer system or network. |
| As
per Indian law, Crime has to be voluntary and willful, an act
or omission that adversely affects a person or property. |
| A simple
definition of cyber crime would be "unlawful acts wherein the
computer is either a tool or a target or both". |
| When
computer is used as tool it will give rise to crimes like: |
Financial
crimes, Cyber pornography, Online gambling, Intellectual Property
crimes, Forgery, Cyber Defamation, Cyber stalking, Email spoofing
etc.
and
|
| When
computer is targeted then it will give rise to crimes like: |
| Unauthorized
access to computer systems or networks , Physically damaging a computer
system, Theft of electric information, Email bombing Denial of Service
attack, Salami attacks, Virus / worm attacks, Web jacking, Data diddling
etc. |
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