CONFRONTING CRIME IN CYBER SPACE: INDIAN PERSPECTIVE

Book is related to basic introduction of Cyber crimes The invention of the computer has opened new avenue for the fraudsters. It is an evil having its origin in the growing dependence on computer in modern life. Though there is great talk about the Cyber Crimes there is nothing called CyberCrime. The crime such as frauds forgery are traditional and are covered by the separate statute such as Indian Penal Code or alike. However the abuse of computer and the related electronic media has given birth to a gamut of new type of crimes which has some peculiar features. A simple yet sturdy definition of these crimes would be “unlawful acts wherein the equipment transforming the information be it a computer or mobile is either a tool or a target or both”. In India the information technology Act deals with the acts wherein the computer is tool for an unlawful act. The kind of activity usually involves a modification of a conventional crime by using computer. Some examples are financial crimes child pornography sale of illegals articles online gambling intellectual property crimes email spoofing forgery cyber defamation cyber stalking unauthorized access to computer systems or networks email bombing theft of information contained in electronic form data diddling salami attacks worms/virus attacks etc.