As
technology is growing at lightening speed. While the technology
brings lot of good things, it also brings equal amount of
risks and challenges. Every day, we read in the newspapers
about the various cyber crimes, like Credit card cloning,
spoofing, phishing, stalking, etc.Some of the youngsters indulge
in misusing the technology and get caught by the Police Authorities
Hard
Facts…
A
recent study revealed that 80 percent of the cyber crimes
in the Corporate Houses are committed by the ‘insiders’.
More than 95 percent of the cases do not get reported to the
Police Authorities.
Cyber
Law governs the legal issues of cyber space
Cyber Space includes
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Internet,
websites |
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computers,
networks |
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software,
data storage devices, emails |
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electronic
devices (cell phones, ATM machines etc) |
On
the Internet, it is very easier to create several copies and
transmitting the same in different locations of world in few
minutes. For these reasons, the Internet has been described
as “the world’s biggest copy machine”. [1]
[1] See “It’s the World’s Biggest Copy Machine,”
PC week (January 27, 1997).
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