Cyber Crimes and General Principles
CYBER CRIME Cyber Crime is an evil having its origin in the growing dependence on computers in modern life.
A simple yet study definition of cyber crime would be “unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both”. Defining cyber crimes, as “acts that are punishable by the information Technology Act” would be unsuitable as the Indian Penal Code also covers many cyber crimes, such as e-mail spoofing, cyber defamation etc.
Cyber crimes refers to unauthorized access to computer systems or networks. This activity is commonly referred to as hacking. It involves theft of information contained in electronic form. This includes information stored in computer hard disks, removable storage media etc.
Cyber crimes can involve criminal activities that are traditional in nature, such as theft, fraud, forgery, defamation and mischief, all of which are subject to the Indian Penal Code. The abuse of computers has also given birth to a gamut of new age crimes that are addressed by the Information Technology Act, 2000. TYPES OF CYBER CRIME
1. Unauthorized access to computer systems or networks / Hacking
This kind of offence is normally referred as hacking in the generic sense.
2. Theft of information contained in electronic form- Theft may be either by appropriating the data physically or by tampering them through the virtual medium.
3. Email bombing-
This kind of activity refers to sending large numbers of mail to the victim, which may be an individual or a company or even mail servers there by ultimately resulting into crashing.
4. Data diddling-
This kind of an attack involves altering raw data just before a computer processes it and then changing it back after the processing is completed.
5. Salami attacks- This kind of crime is normally prevalent in the financial institutions or for the purpose of committing financial crimes. An important feature of this type of offence is that the alteration is so small
A simple yet study definition of cyber crime would be “unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both”. Defining cyber crimes, as “acts that are punishable by the information Technology Act” would be unsuitable as the Indian Penal Code also covers many cyber crimes, such as e-mail spoofing, cyber defamation etc.
Cyber crimes refers to unauthorized access to computer systems or networks. This activity is commonly referred to as hacking. It involves theft of information contained in electronic form. This includes information stored in computer hard disks, removable storage media etc.
Cyber crimes can involve criminal activities that are traditional in nature, such as theft, fraud, forgery, defamation and mischief, all of which are subject to the Indian Penal Code. The abuse of computers has also given birth to a gamut of new age crimes that are addressed by the Information Technology Act, 2000. TYPES OF CYBER CRIME
1. Unauthorized access to computer systems or networks / Hacking
This kind of offence is normally referred as hacking in the generic sense.
2. Theft of information contained in electronic form- Theft may be either by appropriating the data physically or by tampering them through the virtual medium.
3. Email bombing-
This kind of activity refers to sending large numbers of mail to the victim, which may be an individual or a company or even mail servers there by ultimately resulting into crashing.
4. Data diddling-
This kind of an attack involves altering raw data just before a computer processes it and then changing it back after the processing is completed.
5. Salami attacks- This kind of crime is normally prevalent in the financial institutions or for the purpose of committing financial crimes. An important feature of this type of offence is that the alteration is so small