Internet banking frauds and credit card frauds are growing in India. Internet is global in nature with no single territory and jurisdiction. This is both beneficial as well as harmful. It is beneficial as it connects people and organisation and helps them in interacting efficiently. It is dangerous as well as it provides the means … Read more
Meaning of Malicious Code Malicious code is any program that causes undesirable effects on an information system. Examples of malicious code include computer viruses, network worms, trojan horses, logic bombs, spyware, adware and backdoor programs. As they pose a serious threat to software and information processing facilities, precautions must be taken to prevent and detect … Read more
Cyber crime happens to almost everyone who has an email id, who is a member of a social networking website or even who is doing online transaction to carry on business. But you never know how it is happening unless you become a victim. The impact of victimization may be such that you may need … Read more
A credit card has been defined as a payment card, the holder of which is permitted under his contract with the issuer of the card to discharge less than the whole of any outstanding balance on his payment card account on or before the expiry of a specified period, subject to any contractual requirements with … Read more
The publication or broadcast of any libelous or slanderous statement about an individual or business that can be proven to be false and published with the intention of harming that entity’s reputation is considered to be defamation. Online defamation is the publication of such statements made on any Internet based media including blogs, forums, websites, … Read more
The Cyber Crime is now no more limited to few sporadic incidents of unauthorized access to a particular computer or a particular cyberspace with a view to damaging its data or sabotaging the system which few years were called the Computer Espionage. The cyber crime has spread to such proportion that a formal categorization of … Read more
In the context of cyber cafe in particular, if a customer downloads any obscene material for his personal viewing on the terminal assigned to him and this fact is known to the owner of the cyber cafe, it would constitute an offence and the owner of the cyber cafe would be liable under sec. 292 … Read more
Conventional Crime Crime or an offence is “a legal wrong that can be followed by criminal proceedings which may result into punishment.” The essential characteristic of criminality is that, it is breach of the criminal law. According to LORD ATKIN, “The criminal quality of an act cannot be discovered by reference to any standard but … Read more
Meaning Identity theft is a crime in which an impostor obtains key pieces of personal identifying information (PIT) such as social security numbers and driver’s license numbers and uses them for his own personal gain. It can start with lost or stolen wallets, stolen mail, a data breach, computer virus, “phishing” scams, or paper documents … Read more
Cyber fraud may be defined as a crime in which the perpetrator develops a scheme using one or more elements of the Internet to deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by a false representation of a matter of face, whether by providing misleading information or by concealment of information. Some … Read more