INFORMATION SECURITY AND CYBER LAW

1. What is Cybercrime? Cybercrime refers to all the activities done with criminal intent in cyberspace. Because of the anonymous nature of the internet, miscreants engage in a variety of criminal activities. The field of cybercrime is just emerging and new forms of criminal activities in cyberspace are coming to the forefront with each passing day. 2. Do we have an exhaustive definition of Cybercrime? No, unfortunately we don’t have an exhaustive definition of cybercrime. However, any online activity which basically offends human sensibilities can be regarded as a cybercrime. 3. What are the various categories of Cybercrimes? Cybercrimes can be basically divided into three major categories: ·  Cybercrimes against persons, ·  Cybercrimes against property, and ·  Cybercrimes against Government. 3.  Tell us more about Cybercrimes against persons. Cybercrimes committed against persons include various crimes like transmission o...

The faster world-wide connectivity has developed numerous online crimes and these increased offences led to the need of laws for protection. In order to keep in stride with the changing generation, the Indian Parliament passed the Information Technology Act 2000 that has been conceptualized on the United Nations Commissions on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law. The law defines the offenses in a detailed manner along with the penalties for each category of offence. Offences   Cyber offences are the illegitimate actions, which are carried out in a classy manner where either the computer is the tool or target or both. Cyber-crime usually includes the following: ·  Unauthorized access of the computers ·  Data diddling ·  Virus/worms attack ·  Theft of computer system ·  Hacking ·  Denial of attacks ·  Logic bombs ·  Trojan attacks ·  Internet time theft ·  Web jacki...