CYBERCRIMES

Introduction
Today many people all over the world are stealing personal information of people
sitting at home through online Internet, which is called Cybercrime.
Cybercrime has to become a significant problem all over the world, and due to which
many cyber security agencies have been formed to take some action against this
crime.
In many countries to stop this crime worldwide, many cybercrime agencies have been
formed.
Cybercrime is the latest and perhaps most complicated problem in the cyber world.
The term “cybercrime” is not defined anywhere in any law or Act passed or enacted
by the Indian Parliament.
Any criminal activity that uses the computer either as a means to target or to
eliminate further crimes comes under the cybercrime.

TYPES OF CYBERCRIME:
Cybercrime is classified into four major types:
1. Financial
2. Privacy
3. Hacking
4. Cyber-terrorism.
• Financial crimes
This involves Stealing money from the account holders. Similarly, they also
took the data of companies that could lead to financial crimes.
Also, they are at significant risk due to the transaction. Every year hackers
steal the money from business people and government worth millions and
crores of rupees.

• Privacy crime
This involves stealing your data that you do not want to share with the world.
Also, people suffer a lot, and some people even commit suicide due to the
misuse of their data.

• Hacking
In hacking,they intentionally damage a website causing loss or damage to the
public or the owner. Also, they destroy or modify existing sites to reduce their
value.
This is a crime in which illegal control over a person’s website is done
illegally. In this way, the owner of the website loses control and
essential information on that website.

• Cyber-Terrosism
In modern-day terrorism has advanced 10-20 years ago. Still, cyber terrorism
is not related only to terrorists or terrorist organizations, but threatening
a person or property at the level of creating fear is also cyber terrorism .
MEASURES TO PREVENT CYBERCRIME:
• Computer users should use a firewall to protect their computers from hackers.

• Computer users should install anti-virus software such as McAfee or Norton anti-
virus.

• Cyber experts have advised users to only access secure websites.

• We should never give their credit card information to suspects or strangers.

• Users should develop strong passwords on their accounts, i.e., include characters
and numbers in the password, and continuously update the password and login
details.

• Monitor children and limit their use of the Internet.

• Check the security settings of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and be careful,
protect information to avoid hacking, use encryption for most sensitive files or
financial records.

• For all vital information to create a back-up, and having it stored somewhere else,
users should be cautious while using public Wi-Fi hotspots.

• Avoid handling financial transactions on these networks; users should be careful

while giving personal information such as name, address, phone number, or
financial information on the Internet, make sure that the websites are secure.
CONCLUSION
Cybercrime is an act that is neither widespread nor exhaustive; the Information
Technology Act has not distributed with cyber irritation, cyber robbery, and cyber
defamation, and so on.

Article Written By~

Kangna Kapoor

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