Vol. 2, No.10, 2011
Study of Indian Banks Websites for Cyber Crime
Safety Mechanism
Susheel Chandra Bhatt
Durgesh Pant
Research Scholar, Computer Science department
Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Prof. & Director, School of Computer Science & IT
Uttarakhand Open University
Dehradun Campus, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Abstract—The human society has undergone tremendous changes from time to time with rapid pace at social level from the beginning and technological level ever since the rise of technologies. This technology word changes the human life in every manner and every sector. Banking field is one of them.
Banking in India originated in the last decades of the 18th century. Since that time the banking sector applying different ways to provide facilities and securities to a common man regarding to money. Security issues play extremely important role in the implementation of technologies specially in banking sector. Further on it becomes more critical when it comes to the cyber security which is at the core of banking sector. After the arrival of Internet and WWW this banking sector is totally change specially in terms of security because now money is in your hand on a single click. Now user has number of choices to manage his money with different kind of methods. In this paper an attempt has been made to put forward various issues of Indian banks websites for cyber-crime safety mechanism.
Keywords- Cyber; Encryption; Phishing; Secure Socket Layer.
I.
INTRODUCTION
Crime is a social and economic phenomenon and is old as the human society. Crime is a legal concept and has the sanction of the law. Crime or an offence is “a legal wrong that can be followed by criminal proceedings which may result into punishment”[1]. The hallmark of criminality is that, it is breach of the criminal law. Per Lord Atkin “the criminal
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