cyber crime

It is generally seen that , the use of internet in any country of the world is growing rapidly.It has given rise to new opportunities in every field we can think of - be it entertainment, business, sports , health or education. However, one of the major disadvantages of internet is cyber crime.which is an illegal activity that committed on the internet and this includes email espionage, credit cad fraud ,spams, software piracy download illegal music, steal money from online bank account and so on .It also includes non monetary offenses such as creating and distributing viruses on other computers and posting confidential business information on the internet.

Basically cyber crime can be divided into three major categories such as cyber crime against person, cyber crime against property and cyber crime against government. Cyber crime against person includes various crimes like transmission of child pornography, indecent exposure, harassment of any one with the use of email or websites where the asked to enter password , phone number ,address , credit card number , bank account number and other information that are needed to steal another parson's identity .furthermore, these type of harassment can be sexual, racial, religious ,on gender , nationality or other and often occurs in chat rooms , through news groups and by sending hate emails to interested parties. And these types of crimes badly affect to the younger generation which sometimes leave irreparable injury if not properly controlled .

The second category of cyber crime committed against all forms of property including computer vandalism which distraction of others property , transmission of harmful program , stole the technical data base from other person's computer with the help of a corporate cyber spy .

The third category of cyber crime related to crimes against government .cyber terrorism is one of the example if this category.The medium of cyber space is being used by individuals and groups