Cyber crime
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Cyber crime: Meaning
- Reasons for cyber crime
- Cyber criminals
- Technologies exploited by cyber criminals
- Modes of committing cyber crime
- Detection of cyber crime
- Cyber crime prevention
- Bibliography
SummaryCyber crime refers to anything done in the cyber space with a criminal intent. These could be either the criminal activities in the conventional sense or could be activities, newly evolved with the growth of the new medium. Cyber crime includes acts such as hacking, uploading obscene content on the Internet, sending obscene e-mails and hacking into a person's e-banking account to withdraw money. Cyber crime can broadly be defined as criminal activity involving an information technology infrastructure, illegal access, non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system, unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data,Systems interference ,misuse of devices, forgery, and electronic fraud. The problem encountered in guarding a computer system from unauthorized access is that there is every possibility of breach not due to human error but due to the complex technology.
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