Cyber Crime Essay

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Nowadays internet is becoming most common thing in peoples life everywhere in the world. With the boom of technology, internet becoming as a regular thing of peoples life, and now people are using internet for maximum needs like banking, shopping, to communicate with their loved ones and etc. While the internet is developing simultaneously cyber crimes also developing. Cyber crime is emerging as a major and complicated problem in the cyber world. Dashora, K(2011) described “Cyber crime may be said to be those species, of which, genus is the conventional crime, and where either the computer is an object or subject of the conduct constituting crime”. According to a survey by Norton Cyber Crime (2011), in India, in the year 2010, 29.9 million people fell victim to cyber crime, $4 billion were lost due to financial frauds, $3.6 billion were spent in tackling the crime, 80% online adults were victims of cyber crime and 17% adults online experienced cyber crime on their mobile phones. This essay suggests some preventions methods for hacking and email bombing. Cyber crimes can be done in lot of ways, According to Chouhan, R(2014) cyber crimes are classified into two types user based and property based cyber crimes. Firstly, user based cyber crimes are the crimes which targets a person or a organization. Cyber stalking is a user based cyber crime. Cyber stalking is defined as it is a technology based attack on one person who has been targeted specifically for reasons of anger, revenge or control(Anderson, WL 2010). Example for cyber stalking Ritu Kohli Case, being India’s first case of cyber stalking, was indeed an important revelation into the mind of the Indian cyber stalker. A young Indian girl being cyber stalked by a former colleague of her husband, Ritu Kohli’s case took the imagination of India by storm. The case which got cracked however predated the passing of
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