Every time one jumps on to surf the wonderful World Wide Web they are susceptible to a cyber crime! Understanding the top five computer crimes is valuable information for the novice and even expert internet surfer reports(Cyber Crime)
1 Child Pornography(Cyber Crime)
Sad but true, child pornography makes this list. Child pornography is among the fastest growing criminal segments on the Internet. Child pornography is publishing and transmitting obscene material of children in electronic form. In recent years child pornography has increased due to the easy access of the internet, & easily available videos on the internet. (Cyber Crime)Child pornography is a crime in India. Information Technology Act, 2000 & Indian Penal Code, 1860 provides protection from child pornography. (Cyber Crime)Child is the person who is below the age of 18 years reports indianchild.c0m(Cyber Crime), according to sources it is estimated that over 20,000 images of child pornography are posted online weekly.(Cyber Crime)
2 Software Piracy(Cyber Crime)
Software Piracy is amongst the most common cyber crime which can be defined as "copying and using commercial software purchased by someone else". (Cyber Crime)Software piracy is illegal and a big loss for the company producing the software as each pirated piece of software takes away from company profits. However it is legal to make backup copies after you purchase software but if you give one to a friend it is considered a crime.(Cyber Crime) (Selling a copy is also illegal)(Cyber Crime)
3 Malware(Cyber Crime)
Malicious Software (Malware) tops the list of computer crimes as it enables cyber crime on a massive scale. Malware(Cyber Crime) can be of different types like Trojans, viruses, worms and any other software that attaches to a computer without individuals being aware of its presence. Unlike the traditional malware(Cyber Crime) and viruses there are new category malwares(Cyber Crime) that infect your pc and you may not even realize it. Most of them are invisible and hard-to-spot malware (Cyber Crime)can also be extremely hard to remove.(Cyber Crime)
4.Identity Theft(Cyber Crime)
Identity theft while not always computer related is often committed through the use of computers.(Cyber Crime) Millions have been a victim of identity theft across the globe.(Cyber Crime) Identity theft is committed with an intention to acquire your personal information, without your knowledge and uses it in an offendable way to commit fraud.(Cyber Crime)
5 Cyberstalking(Cyber Crime)
Cyberstalking(Cyber Crime) can be defined as using the internet to harass. In most cases victims have very little information about the harassers, however don't start counting out that old flame yet!(Cyber Crime)
(Cyber Crime)taken from:-http://www.siliconindia.com/news/enterpriseit/5-Most-Dngerous-Computer-Crimes-nid-114463-cid-7.html(Cyber Crime)(Cyber Crime)
