Cyber Crime

Cyber Crime

Cyber crime is an activity done using computers and internet. We can say that it is an unlawful acts wherein the computer either a tool or target or both.Cyber Crime is a term used to broadly describe criminal activity in which computers or computer networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity and include everything from electronic cracking to denial of service attacks. It is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enable the illicit activity. Computer crime mainly consists of unauthorized access to computer systems data alteration, data destruction, theft of intellectual property. Cyber crime in the context of national security may involve hacking, traditional espionage, or information warfare and related activities. Pornography, Threatening Email, Assuming someones Identity, Sexual Harassment, Defamation, Spam and Phishing are some examples where computers are used to commit crime, whereas Viruses, Worms and Industrial Espionage, Software Piracy and Hacking are examples where computers become target of crime.

History of Cyber Crime The first recorded cyber crime took place in the year 1820! In 1820, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a textile manufacturer in France, produced the loom. This device allowed the repetition of a series of steps in the weaving of special fabrics. This resulted in a fear amongst Jacquard's employees that their traditional employment and livelihood were being threatened. They committed acts of sabotage to discourage Jacquard from further use of the new technology. This is the first recorded cyber crime!

Defining Cyber Crime It’s an unlawful act wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both. Acts that are punishable by the Information Technology Act. Cyber space is a virtual space that has become as important as real space for business, politics, and communities . 

Types of cyber crime
What is Spam?

Spam, or the unsolicited sending of bulk email for commercial purposes, is unlawful in some power to make legal decisions and judgments. While anti-spam laws are relatively new, limits on unsolicited junk mail have existed for some time. Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses.

What are the Consequences of doing Spam?

The Office of the Information Commissioner will enforce the new regulations. Any breaches of enforcement orders issued by the Information Commissioner will be an offense liable to a fine of up to £5,000 in a magistrate's court, or an unlimited fine if the trial is before a jury.

What is Fraud?

Computer Fraud is intending to let another to do or refrain from doing something which causes loss. Such as:

    Destroying, suppressing, or stealing output, usually to conceal unauthorized transactions
    Misusing existing system tools or software packages, or altering or writing code for fraudulent purposes.
    Deleting stored data

What are the consequences of Fraud?

You will be chased for this debt and will find it difficult to gain credit. The police of the person committing fraud, they will if convicted have a criminal record if its first offense community service. If you don't pay you will go to jail.

What is Threat?

The definition of "true threat" is "statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group". The victim may be in serious danger.

You can get arrested and go to jail for this.

What is Harassment?

Personal Harassment is defined as any behavior which is unacceptable to the recipient and which creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment for employment, study or social life. Although harassment is often thought of as an overt use of power, it can also appear in more subtle guises.

There is more than one form of Harassment. Such as:

What is Sexual Harassment?

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
conduct of a sexual nature. Here are some examples:

    Referring to an adult as a girl, hunk, doll, babe, or honey
    Whistling at someone, cat calls
    Making sexual comments about a person's body
    Making sexual comments or innuendos
    Turning work discussions to sexual topics
    Telling sexual jokes or stories
    Asking about sexual fantasies, preferences, or history
    Asking personal questions about social or sexual life
    Making kissing sounds, howling, and smacking lips
    Making sexual comments about a person's clothing, anatomy, or looks
    Repeatedly asking out a person who is not interested
    Telling lies or spreading rumors about a person's personal sex life

What is Racial Harassment?

A form of racial discrimination, involving offensive behavior by a person or group of one racial or ethnic origin against a person or group of another. Here are some examples of:

    Derogatory name-calling.
    Insults and racist jokes.
    Ridicule of an individual for cultural differences.
    Exclusion from everyday conversation or social events.
    Unfair allocation of work and responsibilities because of racial or ethnic origin.

What is Stalking?

Stalking can involve a harasser being followed or spied upon,being caused distress. It may also involve violence or the threat and/or fear of violence.

Cyber Law

Cyber law is the area of law that deals with the Internet's relationship to technological and electronic elements, including computers, software, hardware and information systems (IS).