Cyber Crime

Mostly teenage and youth are victims of this crime. Cybercrime is increasing day by day. Every day millions of people fall prey to it. This crime is targeting the computer system. Hacking, Denial of Service attack, spreading virus and malware, cyber terrorism, spoofing, skimming, pharming, spamming etc crime come under cybercrime. In modern and technical age, it is increasing day by day like fire in the forest. Mostly teenage and youth are victims of this crime.

Let’s see some of the details of this crime and get more information about cybercrime.

Definition – “Any violation of criminal law that involves knowledge of computers technology for their perpetration, investigations or prosecution.”

Tools and techniques used to commit cybercrime –

Buffer overflow – The condition when a program or process tries to store more data in a buffer than it was intended to hold.

Cracking – Cracking is breaking into someone else computer system, often on a network bypassing password or license in a computer program or in other ways intentionally breaches computer security.

Data didling – Involves altering the raw data just before a computer processes it and then changing it back after processing is completed.

Phishing – Using spoof E-mail or directing the people to fake web sites to deceive them into divulging personal financial details so that criminal can access their account.

Virus – A self-replicating program that runs and spreads by modifying other program and file.

Worm – a self-propagating, self-contained program that uses networking mechanism to spread itself.

Zombie – A program that is installed on a system to cause it to attach other system.

Government and law enforcement initiative –

The realisation of the growing threat of cybercrime by the Government of India has led to the initiation of a connected program for cybersecurity under the department of information technology along with the enactment of the information technology Act 2000, which was amended in the year 2008 retrofitting newer crime. The act heralded the legal recognition of electronic document digital signatures and transaction, done using computers & Internet. Further, the act described the punishment and penalty for criminal offence and contravention.

Many law enforcement agencies including the central bureau of investigation have created a separated unit cell of handling cybercrime.

We have to stay away from these things. And if something like that happens, to go to the police immediately. Your safety is in your hands. Stay alert to avoid crime.

Lots of penalties have been prescribed for cybercrime perpetrators. Stocking someone online, harassing someone online, it all comes under cyber cybercrime. Many people do not even know that he is committing a crime.

The only way to avoid cybercrime is to always be vigilant.