General Awareness Of Cyber Crime

Abstract:

Cybercrime is the crime that is done using computer and internet.Cybercrime is the fast-growing area of crime.Both the computer and the person can be the victim of cybercrime.Criminals are taking advantage the fast internet speed and convenience provided by the internet to perform large and different criminal activities.

Cybercrime can be any crime related to information theft, hacking, viruses, trojan attack , stealing money and do the transaction, etc.

KEYWORDS:

Cyber Crime
Cyber Stalking
Spoofing
Cyber Law
Transaction
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Introduction

Any crime that is done using computer and internet is known as cybercrime or computer crime.Cybercrime is done the person who is expert in computer and knows the technique of hacking cybercrime does not only mean steal money from someone's account online transactions, but it can also be information theft, trojan attacks, e-mail bombing, Dos attack , hacking into someone's system downloading illegal files.

Virus is a small program that is sent to different computers using internet which may harm the other system is also a cyber crime

Categories Of Cyber Crime

(A.)INDIVIDUAL

The cybercrime which is done to harm a particular individual come under this category.The crime against an individual can be such as Cyber Stalking, Trafficking, Grooming and distributing pornography.These crimes are very serious and the government is taking steps to protect the victim and arrest the criminals.

(B.)Property

The cybercrime which is done to harm the property of an individual or of an organization come under this category.This type of crime involves stealing and robbing i.e Criminals can steal person's bank detail and transfer money to his account; criminals can misuse the credit card detail of the person to purchase online.Criminals can use a special type of software to steal organization's confidential data; malicious software can also damage the hardware and software of the organization.

(C.)Government

Crime against government known as cyber terrorism.Cyber attack against government is not as common as 2 categories criminals attack governments websites, military website which creates chaos among civilians